Authors: John A. Cole and Lucy J. Reuben
DR. JOHN A. COLE is the Interim Chair of the Department of Economics and Transportation/Logistics at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro. Prior to that, he was the founding dean of the School of Business and Economics at Benedict College in Columbia, S.C. His teaching and research experiences have included a focus on minority business and minority banks. He serves on the Board of Directors of two financial institutions -- one of which is in South Carolina. He holds a Ph.D. in business administration from the University of Michigan.
DR. LUCY J. REUBEN is a Visiting Professor at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Michigan’s Center for the Education of Women. She also serves on the President’s Council of Economic Advisors for the National Urban League, the Visiting Committee of the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and on other civic boards and advisory committees.
Previously, she served as Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at North Carolina Central University in Durham, and as Dean and Marshall B. Williams Professor at the School of Business at South Carolina State University. She was a Nissan Fellow at the University of Chicago. Additionally, she has held professorial positions at Florida A&M University, George Mason University and Duke University.
Dr. Reuben has served on the Board of Economists of Black Enterprise magazine, the Board of Directors of the Charlotte Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond and the Advisory Board of the Columbia, S.C. World Affairs Council. She was appointed to the South Carolina Science and Technology Council, and, earlier, to the Florida Black Business Investment Board by the respective Governors of those states. She has provided expertise and service in numerous other venues of civic and business leadership.
Dr. Reuben earned the Ph.D. in Business Administration and the M.B.A. (with Distinction) in Finance from the University of Michigan as well as the A.B. degree in economics from Oberlin College. She holds lifetime memberships in the National Association of Black MBAs, the National Council of Negro Women, and the NAACP.