Executive Director

Executive Director of Workforce & Adult Learning PathwaysFounded in 1867 as the oldest private Historically Black College in Alabama, Talladega College is a residential liberal arts institution advancing its 2025–2030 strategic plan, Forging Onward: Reimagining Liberal Arts Education. The Executive Director of Workforce & Adult Learning Pathways provides unified executive leadership for three of the College's most mission-critical, opportunity-centered pathways for working adults and non-traditional learners:Fast Track — the cohort-based accelerated bachelor's degree-completion program for working adults;The Prison Education Program (PEP) — Talladega College credit and degree instruction delivered to incarcerated learners under the federally re-established Second Chance Pell / Prison Education Program framework (34 CFR Part 668, Subpart P); andThe Alabama Workforce Ecosystem Initiative — Talladega's statewide leadership role, anchored by the Provost's appointment as Alabama's SACSCOC State Convener for the Workforce Coordinator Network, connecting education, credentials, employers, and workforce systems in service of Alabama's Success Plus goal of adding 500,000 credential holders to the workforce.The Executive Director reports to the Provost and Executive Vice President and holds integrated responsibility for recruitment, admissions, advising, curriculum, faculty-facilitator engagement, scheduling, assessment, marketing, community and employer engagement, correctional-facility relationships, credential-of-value alignment, work-based learning and apprenticeship structure, compliance, budget, and reporting across all three pathways.The role is expressly designed to connect the three entities — so that a working adult, a returning citizen, and an employer partner all experience a single, coherent Talladega College pipeline from recruitment to credential to job.