Central Louisiana News

NATCHITOCHES – Dr. Lamar Bryant, associate vice chancellor for strategic  initiatives in the Division of Diversity Engagement at the University  of Tennessee Knoxville, has been appointed to the board of directors of  Order of Omega, an international honor society recognizing fraternity  men and women who have attained a high standard of leadership, service  and scholarship.

 

Bryant earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration with a  minor in marketing at Northwestern State University in 2004 and a  master’s degree in college student personnel administration in 2007. He  earned a Ph.D. in higher education at the University of North Texas.

 

Since joining Order of Omega, Bryant has been a huge proponent of the  International Organization. More specifically, he helped charter two  Order of Omega chapters at the University Texas at Tyler and  Bethune-Cookman University respectively. He has also served as Order of  Omega Case Study judge at a regional Sorority and Fraternity Life  conference. During his graduate academic pursuits, Bryant received two  fellowships from Order of Omega for his outstanding contributions to the  field of Sorority and Fraternity Life. He was awarded the William J.  Brennan and Jacque Placette Chapman Master’s Fellowship as a Master’s  student at Northwestern State, and the Order of Omega Doctoral  Fellowship as a Doctoral student at the University of North Texas.  Bryant truly enjoys being a resource to both the national organization  and the local chapter on his campus and is honored when he is invited to  the local chapter’s initiation ceremony or asked to speak at an local  Order of Omega event.

 

In his current position at UT-Knoxville, Bryant collaborates with a team  to help cultivate a campus environment that in inclusive and welcome to  everyone, at all levels. He has over a decade of professional  experience in higher education and an understanding of the correlation  between an impactful well-rounded college experience and high student  retention/graduation rates.  Bryant believes that academia presents  individuals with an opportunity to challenge and support students  academically, socially and personally. He believes college is about  creating an experience that compels the student to persist and graduate.  He is a member of alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and a 2005 initiate of  Order of Omega.

 

Bryant is the fourth NSU Demon to serve on the board.  John Hatley  served as the Undergraduate Student Board Member in 1996. Katie Kennedy  served as the Undergraduate Student Board Member in 2021-2022 and Reatha  Cox is the current vice president.

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