Patricia A. Ackerman, Ph.D., of Richmond Heights, was appointed to the Ohio Board of Regents for a term beginning March 12, 2010 and ending September 20, 2014. Regent Ackerman is completing the unexpired term of former Regent Daniel B. Hurwitz. Regent Ackerman is president and CEO of CHALKDUST Inc, a consulting firm serving education professionals and volunteers as executive director of Chalkdust Education Foundation, a non-profit organization created to offer enrichment opportunities, training programs and related resources to students, parents and faith leaders in urban communities. Regent Ackerman is a retired public school educator and has served as a teacher, principal and K-12 curriculum administrator. She earned her bachelor's degree from Ohio University, her master's from Cleveland State University and her Ph.D. from Kent State University. Still an active member of the higher education community, Regent Ackerman is an emerita member of the Ohio University Board of Trustees and was recently elected to a nine-year term on the Ohio University Foundation Board. In addition, she is a board member of the Greater Cleveland Delta Foundation Life Development Center, an active member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc., both locally and at the national level, chair of the Education Braintrust of the International Women’s Aviation and Space Museum located at Burke Lakefront Airport in Cleveland, and co-author of the Legacy of Literacy (2001) reading program for grades K-6 published by Houghton Mifflin. In the past, she has served on the boards of the Cleveland Zoological Society, the Kent State University Alumni Association, the Lake Erie College Board of Directors and the YWCA of Greater Cleveland. Regent Ackerman currently chairs the Central State Task Forces and serves on the Centers of Excellence Task Force.
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