Betsy Boze

Betsy Boze
Dr. Betsy V. Boze, the 9th President of The College of The Bahamas
Born	Betsy Vogel Shreveport, Louisiana
Residence	Washington, DC Shreveport, LA
Education	Ph.D. University of Arkansas MBA and B.S. (psychology) Southern Methodist University
Occupation	Past President, The College of The Bahamas
Board member of	Girl Scouts of Alaska The Glen Retirement System Antiquities, Monuments and Museums Corporation (Bahamas) International Association of Universities Bahamas National Trust Gerace Research Center The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas Clifton Heritage National Park Chairman, National Advisory Council on Education (Bahamas) Betty and Paul McDonald Foundation (USA) Bahamas Education, Culture and Science Foundation, Inc. (USA) Canadian Friends of COB (Canada)

Washington, DC

Girl Scouts of Alaska

The Glen Retirement System

Antiquities, Monuments and Museums Corporation (Bahamas)

International Association of Universities

Bahamas National Trust

Gerace Research Center

The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas

Clifton Heritage National Park

Chairman, National Advisory Council on Education (Bahamas)

Betty and Paul McDonald Foundation (USA)

Bahamas Education, Culture and Science Foundation, Inc. (USA)

Betsy Vogel Boze (pronounced Bōz), is an American academic and higher education administrator. With 25 years administrative experience at public universities, she was the ninth president of The College of The Bahamas. During her career she has been a Professor of Marketing, Department Chair, Dean, and the CEO of Kent State University at Stark. She is a Senior Fellow at the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) researching alternative revenue streams for public colleges and universities.

Boze attended Southfield School in Shreveport, Louisiana and graduated from C. E. Byrd High School where she was involved in social and environmental issues, including the first Earth Day. In 2009 she was inducted into the Byrd High School Hall of Fame, an honor awarded to less than one-third of one percent of graduates.

She earned her Bachelor of Science in psychology and Masters in Business Administration degrees from Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, Texas. She studied international management at Thunderbird, Spanish at ITESM (Monterrey Institute of Technology) in Monterrey, Mexico, and Japanese at International Christian University (ICU) in Mitaka, Japan. She earned her Ph.D. in business administration from the University of Arkansas, majoring in marketing, with minors in economics and sociology.