Biographical Profile for President Hogan


In May 2002, the Tougaloo College Board of Trustees named Dr. Beverly Wade Hogan, a former trustee and College administrator, the 13th President of the College. President Hogan holds the Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from Tougaloo College and a master’s in public policy and administration from Jackson State University. She was conferred the Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters by Wiley College.  She has done additional studies at the University of Southern Mississippi, University of Georgia and St. Mary College. She is presently pursuing the doctorate in organizational management and leadership. To complement her formal education, President Hogan has received certificates of training in leadership development, organizational management, policy development, health and human resources management, alcohol and drug studies, urban development and administrative law.  

President Hogan comes to the presidency with more than twenty-five years of experience in executive management and leadership. Prior to becoming President, she had served as the College’s Interim President, founding Director of the Owens Health, Wellness & Human Resources Center, Executive Assistant to the President and Vice President for Institutional Advancement. She also served for ten years as the Commissioner for the Mississippi Workers’ Compensation Commission, four years as the Executive Director of the Governor’s Office of Federal State Programs, nine years as the Executive Director of the Mental Health Association in Hinds County and the State of Mississippi, respectively. She has been an adjunct instructor in public policy at Jackson State University and a frequent guest lecturer at the University of Mississippi and Mississippi State University. Additionally, she has been involved with employment and educational training programs in Denmark, Sweden and West Germany in affiliation with the German Marshall Fund. She has been a scholar with the Kettering Foundation where her research focus was Higher Education and Civic Responsibility. President Hogan has been a participant and presenter in the Oxford Roundtable at Oxford University in Oxford, England.

Throughout President Hogan’s distinguished career, she is credited with pioneering programs that improved the quality of life for many citizens, including, but not limited to, the founder of the first psychiatric halfway house in Mississippi, establishing the first rape crisis center and shelter for battered women, and initiating the State’s Self Employment Demonstration Project to reduce welfare dependency and the Rental Rehabilitation and Low Income Tax Credit Programs to increase the availability of housing for low income families. She has received extensive recognition for her trailblazing contributions, and remains active on various boards and commissions in her continuing commitment to give of her talents and resources for the betterment of society and a generation yet unborn.  

President Hogan’s aim is to build upon Tougaloo College’s deep and strong legacy of academic excellence and social commitment while advancing the institution toward a legacy of fiscal responsibility to ensure that it will stand and prosper.