| CSU Provost: Dr. Sadie Gregory |
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Over the past twenty-eight years, Dr. Sadie R. Gregory has been employed in a variety of academic and non-academic positions of increasingly higher levels of responsibility. She served as the Interim Vice President of Academic Affairs at the Richmond School of Health and Technology. In this position, Dr. Gregory serves as the Chief Academic Officer for the School. She has oversight management responsibility for academic program development and review. She provides direct supervision for the directors and division heads. Dr. Gregory is responsible for academic planning, assessment, curriculum development/review, student-support programs and specialized accreditation activities.
Prior to assuming the duties of the Interim Vice President for Academic Affairs, Dr. Gregory held a number of academic positions in higher education. She entered the academic field in 1975 as an Assistant Professor of Economics for J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College. In 1979, she rejoined her alma mater, Virginia State University, in the capacity of Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics. She also served as the Assistant Dean for Student Affairs in the School of Business. Dr. Gregory later provided leadership for the School of Business and the broader University by serving as Dean of the Business School. In this capacity, she worked closely with the Board, administration, faculty, students and business leaders.
Dr. Gregory has held a number of non-academic positions of leadership. She served as the Director of Business Research and Chief Economist for the Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control from 1988–1990. In this position she initiated the Agency’s Strategic Planning efforts. She later served as the Chief Economist and Senior Researcher for the Bureau of Insurance of the State Corporation Commission where she conducted research and provided expert testimony at rate hearings.
As an author and lecturer, Dr. Gregory has published numerous articles in scholarly journals on national issues pertaining to her specialized areas of banking, finance and the economics of discrimination. Her scholarly research has also been presented at national and regional conferences of the major professional associations in the fields of economics, business, banking and finance.
Dr. Gregory has held a number of Board and Committee memberships. Among these are: Chair of the Board of the Virginia State University Federal Credit Union, Member of the Treasury Board for the Commonwealth of Virginia, Member of the Investment Advisory Committee for the Board of the Virginia Retirement System, Board Member of the Richmond Community Hospital Foundation, Member of the Interdepartmental Board of the Virginia Department of Minority Businesses, Member of the Editorial Advisory Board for Virginia Business, Member of the Editorial Review Board for the Journal of Black Political Economy, and Institutional Representative for the Virginia Identification Program for the Advancement of Women in Higher Education Administration.
Dr. Gregory earned the Ph.D. degree in Economics from Howard University in 1988. In 1977, she received the M.A. degree in Economics from Virginia Commonwealth University; and in 1974, she graduated magna cum laude from Virginia State University with a B.S. degree in Economics.
