Alabama A&M University Alumna Dr. Shantay N. Bolton was recently named the 11th president and chief executive officer of Columbia College Chicago. Bolton most recently served as the executive vice president of administration and finance and chief business officer at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech).
She successfully fulfilled similar administrative duties in her prior positions at Washington University in St. Louis and Tulane University in New Orleans, where she helped advance the university’s workforce development efforts through the founding of two inaugural leadership institutes to support faculty and staff development.
Bolton holds a BS and MS in psychology from Alabama A&M University, an MBA from Florida International University, and a Ph.D. in organizational psychology from Walden University. An adjunct professor of practice in Georgia Tech’s Scheller College of Business, she has taught in multiple settings.
As the first woman in nearly 90 years and the first woman of color to lead the institution, Bolton will officially start her presidential tenure at Columbia on July 1.