Dr. Miron Billingsley

Dr. Miron P. Billingsley has always had a passion for serving students in higher education and his resume speaks volumes in that persuit.   Dr. Billingsley has countless years of experience in higher education as a professor, dean, director, and vice president.  While he enjoyed his last role teaching, his desire continues to be to affect change on a larger scale in a leadership role again.

Previously, he served as the Associate Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students and Chief Diversity Officer at Lincoln University of Missouri, a Historically Black University located in Jefferson City, Missouri.   Prior to his appointment at Lincoln University, he served as Executive Director of Enrollment Management at Jarvis Christian College. Prior to then, he served as Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs at North Carolina Central University in 2014 and Associate Vice President for Student Affairs at Prairie View A&M University in 2008.

Dr. Billingsley has numerous highlights and successes in his professional career.  But he is most proud of the work done at Prairie View A&M University.  While there, Dr. Billingsley provided vision, direction, and review of student service operations. Under his leadership, he established a Counseling Center on campus, created a Veterans Center to recruit and retain military veterans and cultivated partnerships with all areas of the university to deliver seamless service to students. Additionally, Dr. Billingsley formed a Parent’s Association and led Student Affairs through a successful re-accreditation self-study and campus evaluation visit.

Dr. Billingsley is a native of Chicago, Illinois, where he graduated from Percy L. Julian High School in 1984. He served four years in the U.S. Navy as a radioman on the USS Bunker Hill. After leaving the navy, he went on to receive a Bachelor’s Degree in Communications from the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff in 1992. He then continued his education and received a Master’s Degree in Telecommunications from Texas Southern University in 1995. Always a lifelong learner, he earned his Ed.D. in Adult Education at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma in 2005.

Education has always been important to Dr. Billingsley.  His biggest accomplishment is being a proud father and “first educator” to his four children, Xavier, 35; Mya, 25; Morgan, 23; and Miles, 18.