{"id":1868,"date":"2021-05-12T14:18:16","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T14:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/ephd\/?p=1868"},"modified":"2022-02-02T16:55:11","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T16:55:11","slug":"lynda-batiste-ph-d-appointed-interim-vice-president-for-business-and-finance-cohort-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/ephd\/2021\/05\/lynda-batiste-ph-d-appointed-interim-vice-president-for-business-and-finance-cohort-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Lynda Batiste, Ph.D. appointed Interim Vice President for Business and Finance &#8211; Cohort 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"large-4 cell\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aamu.edu\/about\/inside-aamu\/news\/_images\/batistelynda4a.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Lynda Batiste, Ph.D.\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Dr. Lynda Batiste has been appointed to serve in the position of Interim Vice President for Business and Finance.\u00a0 As the CFO, Dr. Batiste will be responsible for providing leadership, management, coordination and supervision of the university\u2019s fiscal affairs. Dr. Batiste replaces Mr. Clayton Gibson who will be leaving the university to serve as CFO at the University of North Texas, the 41<sup>st<\/sup> largest Tier I research university in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Batiste has the experience and is well prepared academically for this assignment.\u00a0 She holds a Ph.D. in Urban Higher Education from Jackson State University and a Masters of Professional Accountancy (MPA) and Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Southern University and A&amp;M College.\u00a0 Additionally, she has completed 30 hours of course work toward the doctorate in business administration.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2019, Dr. Batiste has served as the Assistant Vice President for Finance\/Comptroller at Alabama A&amp;M University.\u00a0 In this role, she supervises the work of general accounting, accounts, payable, payroll, grants and contracts accounting, office of student accounts, and the cashier\u2019s office.\u00a0 One of her principle responsibilities is in ensuring the timely and accurate completion of the university\u2019s annual audit.\u00a0 This function has been quite effective as evidenced by the decreased time between the close of the fiscal year and the issuance of the audit report.<\/p>\n<p>Other positions held by Dr. Batiste were Director of Finance for the Southern University Agriculture Research and Extension Center as well as instructor and fiscal assistant, trainer with the Southern University Center for Economic and Entrepreneurship Development, and teaching positions with Southern University and Baton Rouge Community College.\u00a0 Dr. Batiste is quite knowledgeable of the accreditation process and has served as member of three on-site SACSCOC reaffirmation committees, three off-site committees and one special committee. She has also presented at a number of professional association conferences and meetings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Lynda Batiste has been appointed to serve in the position of Interim Vice President for Business and Finance.\u00a0 As the CFO, Dr. Batiste will be responsible for providing leadership, management, coordination and supervision of the university\u2019s fiscal affairs. Dr. Batiste replaces Mr. Clayton Gibson who will be leaving the university to serve as CFO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/ephd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/ephd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/ephd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/ephd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/ephd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1868"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/ephd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1923,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/ephd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions\/1923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/ephd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/ephd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/ephd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}