Office of the President

Staff:

Dr. Beverly Walker-Griffea, Ph.D. - President
DeAndra Larkin - Chief of Staff / Executive Director, Systems, Operations and Strategy
Aron Gerics - Deputy Chief of Staff
Jordan Keyser - Board Relations Coordinator

Telling Our Stories is a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion monthly event hosted by President Walker-Griffea offered to MCC employees designed to build more inclusive relationships through sharing personal stories to yield universal truths.

Selected employees share moments, events or experiences that have defined them. The stories give the listeners an opportunity to learn more about each other and build more inclusive relationships.

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Dr. Beverly Walker-Griffea, Ph.D.

Dr. Beverly Walker-Griffea became the seventh president of Mott Community College (Flint, Michigan) in August 2014. Mott Community College has a legacy of student success and academic excellence that Dr. Walker-Griffea is proud to lead.

Dr. Beverly Walker-Griffea, Ph.D.
Dr. Beverly Walker-Griffea

Walker-Griffea has been a long-time advocate for collegiate student success, serving community college students in various capacities for more than 30 years. Dr. Beverly, as she prefers to be called, has a passion for ensuring all students have access to quality, affordable, and effective learning experiences. She chose to share her talents with community college institutions because of her deep connection to the community college mission and commitment to meet the academic, training, and lifelong learning needs of communities by educating all citizens that desire to learn. She believes community colleges must support the local community’s economic viability by preparing a skilled and successful workforce.

Since joining Mott Community College, Dr. Beverly has worked together with the MCC family of faculty, staff, administrators, and students to chart the College’s preferred future which is “Mott Strong.” Together, MCC is establishing an inclusive welcoming environment that promotes a commitment to employee and student success. The College has transformed through implementing new resources and student support programming, hiring student success coaches, restructuring student completion pathways, reducing strategically enrollment and retention barriers, creating inclusive spaces and facilities, developing a College Master Plan, opening the downtown MCC Culinary Arts Building and the on-campus Lenore Croudy Family Life Center, establishing public/private partnerships for unique funding streams, custom designing and building a mobile learning lab, implementing unique collegewide Diversity, Equity and Inclusion measures that include "Telling Our Stories", The Circle and The MCC Council, as well as continually partnering with businesses, nonprofits and education institutions to deliver excellent academic and workforce opportunities. Under Dr. Beverly’s tenure, Mott Community College has maintained the legacy of serving Flint and Genesee County as a stable foundation, anchor for the region and a safe haven for MCC students.

Prior to joining the MCC family, Dr. Walker-Griffea served as Senior Vice President for Student Services at Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland, Vice President of Student Affairs at Thomas Nelson Community College in Hampton, Virginia; Dean of Student Development at Houston Community College-Central Campus; and Interim Dean of Health and Environmental Sciences at Spokane Community College. Additionally, while at Spokane Community College, Dr. Beverly earned tenure in three years as a counseling faculty member leading the award-winning Single-Parent Program, and served as Chair for the Institutional Diversity Department.

Service is important to Dr. Beverly. During her presidency, she has served nationally as the President for the American Association for Women in Community Colleges and as a member of the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) Board of Directors, as well as chair and co-chair of several AACC Commissions. Currently, Dr. Beverly is a member of the Oklahoma State University (OSU) Foundation Board of Trustees and serves on the Budget Committee.

Locally, she serves on the Board of Directors for the Greater Flint Health Coalition and is currently a member of its Executive Committee, McLaren-Flint Hospital, Carriage Town Ministries, Metro Community Development, and the Michigan Community College Association (MCCA) where she maintains a seat on MCCA’s Executive Committee and is currently the Chair of the Presidents’ Committee. In addition, Dr. Beverly is the chair of the Flint & Genesee Group (formerly Chamber of Commerce) Governing Board and a member of the Operating Board. She also servers as a member of the Flint Rotary Club, Flint Promise Zone Authority, and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. and is President of the Ivy House Foundation. Appointed by Governor Gretchen Whitmer to represent the State of Michigan on the Great Lakes Water Authority (GLWA) in 2018, Dr. Beverly has served as chair, and currently is the chair of the Legal Committee.

Dr. Beverly is the first female and first African American president in Mott Community College’s history. She is committed to academic excellence, student access and success, dynamic industry partnerships, and significantly impacting local economies. A native of Tulsa, Oklahoma, she holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Child Development from Texas Woman’s University in Denton, Texas, a Master of Education in Guidance and Counseling from Virginia State University in Petersburg, Virginia, and a Bachelor of Science in Radio, Television and Film: News and Public Affairs from Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In recognition of her many accomplishments, Dr. Beverly was recognized as a Distinguished Alumna by OSU in 2019 and is proud to be selected as a 2022 Texas Woman's University Distinguished Alumna.