Cleveland State professor named a Smith Fellow
Maureen Baksh-Griffin, assistant professor of nursing at Cleveland State Community College, has been selected to participate in the 2015 Tennessee Board of Regents’ Maxine Smith Fellows Program.
The Board of Regents is the governing body for 46 universities, community colleges and technology centers throughout the state. The Maxine Smith Fellows Program was created to provide opportunities for black Board of Regent employees to participate in a working/learning environment that would enhance work experience and career development.
Each fellow is assigned a mentor at either the the Board of Regents central office, Tennessee Higher Education Commission or a Board of Regents school. Baksh-Griffin, whose mentor is Anthony Wise, president of Pellissippi State Community College, is working on a project that relates student engagement solutions to psychosocial factors that affect their success.
Baksh-Griffin has been at Cleveland State for three years and currently teaches in the evening program. The part-time evening option is an initiative that allows students the opportunity to study nursing while working full-time.