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The NCAA News - News & FeaturesAugust 19, 1996Sessoms joins Presidents CommissionAllen Lee Sessoms of Queens College (New York) has been selected as a Division II member of the NCAA Presidents Commission, making him a member of the Division II Presidents Council Transition Team.
A former Harvard University physics faculty member, Sessoms joined the staff of the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs in 1980. He went on to serve as director of the bureau's Office of Nuclear Technology and Safeguards, then held posts as counselor for scientific and technological affairs in the U.S. Embassy in France and as minister-counselor for political affairs and deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico. He returned to higher education in 1993 as executive vice-president of the University of Massachusetts system and also held the title of vice-president for academic affairs before assuming the presidency at Queens. Sessoms earned a bachelor of science degree with honors at Union College (New York), a master of science in physics at the University of Washington, and a master of philosophy and doctorate in physics at Yale University. He served as an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow from 1977 to 1981 and also received a travel and study grant from the Ford Foundation in 1973.
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Sessoms, who has been president at Queens since August 1995, succeeds Betty Turner Asher, who resigned as president at the University of South Dakota. He will serve on the Presidents Council Transition Team as an at-large member.