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(AKRON, Ohio - July 26, 2007) Brown Mackie College has recently appointed Richard Thome as the school system's Vice President of Academic Affairs. Thome previously served as president of Brown Mackie College school locations in Akron, Ohio and Lenexa, Kansas.
In his new role, Thome will lead a team of five technical and educational support specialists who will provide service to the deans, registrars, and faculty of Brown Mackie College's two national regions.
Thome earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Chemistry from Miami University and later completed graduate work in immunology and biochemistry at Kent State University, while completing clinical rotations at the Cuyahoga Falls General Hospital to become a Registered Medical Technologist. During that time, he taught clinical and theoretical immunohematology at Children's' Hospital Medical Center of Akron, Ohio, while completing a Master of Science degree in Technical Education at the University of Akron, Ohio.
He then served both on the faculty and as the Dean of Education at the Akron, Ohio branch campus of Southern Ohio College (now renamed Brown Mackie College - Akron), and subsequently was named the branch campus director, then main campus director and operations manager over the four campuses of Southern Ohio College.
After serving for two years as the first Executive Vice President of Education for American Education Centers, Inc. of Fort Mitchell, Kentucky, Thome was named the President of Brown Mackie College - Kansas City, a two campus, regionally accredited junior college awarding associate's degrees in the State of Kansas. Brown Mackie College, founded in Salina, Kansas in 1892, has operated a branch campus in Lenexa, Kansas, since 1984.
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