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| Dr. Adell Brown, Jr. |
Baton Rouge, La. –
The Southern University Board of Supervisors has named Dr. Adell Brown Jr., as
Interim Chancellor for the SU Ag Center effective July 1, 2015. Prior to now, Brown served as Vice Chancellor
for Finance and Administration, and currently as Vice Chancellor for
Research and Executive Vice-Chancellor.
Brown has over 42 years of experience in higher
education and agriculture, with 39 of those years at Southern University.
He has held several positions within the SU Ag Center and the SU Baton Rouge (SUBR) campus. These positions included Adjunct Professor in the Department of Economics and Finance in the College of Business; Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration at the SU Ag Center; Associate Specialist and Specialist/Extension Economist; Assistant Administrator and Specialist for Agriculture; Acting Administrator and Assistant County Agent for the Cooperative Extension Program at SUBR. He also served as Small Farm Coordinator for the College of Agriculture at SUBR.
He has held several positions within the SU Ag Center and the SU Baton Rouge (SUBR) campus. These positions included Adjunct Professor in the Department of Economics and Finance in the College of Business; Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration at the SU Ag Center; Associate Specialist and Specialist/Extension Economist; Assistant Administrator and Specialist for Agriculture; Acting Administrator and Assistant County Agent for the Cooperative Extension Program at SUBR. He also served as Small Farm Coordinator for the College of Agriculture at SUBR.
Apart from of his employment with the Southern
University System, Brown has been Vice President for Research, Planning, Community
and Economic Development and Tenured Associate Professor in Business for the
College of Business at Mississippi Valley State University; Program Manager for the USDA’s Cooperative
State Research Services Office of Small-Scale Agriculture in Washington D.C.; USDA
Visiting Professor for Farmer Home Administration and Research/Teaching Assistant for the
Department of Agricultural Economics at Louisiana State University.
He is also the Immediate Past President/Chair of the
100 Black Men of Metropolitan Baton Rouge, a non-profit organization where
African-American males assume roles of community leadership, responsibility,
and guidance to enhance the lives of youth.
Brown earned a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural
Business from Northeast Louisiana University, a Master of Business
Administration with a concentration in Management and Finance from the
University of Southwest Louisiana and a Doctorate in Agricultural Economics with
concentrations in Production Economics, Statistics and Management from
Louisiana State University.
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