Sidney A. Ribeau

Sidney Ribeau was the president of Howard University in Washington, D.C.. Prior to accepting the position at Howard, Ribeau was for 13 years the president of Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Ribeau, a married father of three, is the 16th president of the 11,000-student university.

Ribeau grew up in Detroit and is a graduate of Mackenzie High School. Ribeau received his bachelor's degree from Wayne State University in 1971. He earned master's and doctoral degrees in interpersonal communication from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 1973 and 1979, respectively.

Ribeau served on Ohio's Higher Education Funding Commission; he is a member of the Board of Directors for the National Collegiate Athletic Association, and was chair of the Inter-University Council of Presidents in 2005–06. A past member of the Bowling Green and Toledo Chambers of Commerce, he also served on the boards of United Way, the Greater Toledo Urban League, the Toledo Symphony Orchestra, the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association-College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA-CREF), the Regional Growth Partnership, the Andersons Inc., Convergys Corp., and Worthington Industries.

In 1976, Ribeau began his teaching career at California State University, Los Angeles as a professor of communication studies. He was honored there as an outstanding teacher and student adviser, and in 1984 became chair of the university's Pan African Studies Department, a position he held for three years. He was then named dean of undergraduate studies at California State University, San Bernardino. From 1990 to 1992, Ribeau was dean of the College of Liberal Arts at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, and was then appointed vice president for academic affairs at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, a position he held until going to Bowling Green in 1995.

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