Dean of the College of Education at Harris-Stowe State University
Dr. Quincy A. Rose is a graduate of Delaware
State University. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree
in Elementary Education, a Master of Arts degree in
Curriculum and Instruction and a Doctorate of Education
degree in Innovation and Leadership with a concentration
in Organizational Leadership from Wilmington University.
Additionally, Dr. Rose recently completed the competitive
Women in Education Leadership Program at the Harvard
University Graduate School of Education where she was
carefully selected as 1 out of 50 exemplary women in
leadership within the world to participate in this program.
Rose's previous appointments include working in higher
education administration as Department Head and Associate
Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at Grambling State
University, and Director of Teacher Education and Department
Chair of the Bachelor of Science Interdisciplinary Studies
Program and Master of Arts in Teaching program at Tusculum
College in Greeneville, Tennessee.
Her career in education has spanned across the public school,
charter school and now the higher education sector. Previously,
she has served in the capacities of community liaison, educator and
administrator among others. Service to her community is
paramount; and as such, Rose has served on numerous committees
as it relates to education and healthy and safe communities. Among
her notable appointments to serve is her 2001 appointment by the
Governor of Delaware to serve as board member of the Children’s
Trust Fund. In 2001 Rose was also presented with the esteemed
Jefferson Award for outstanding service.
Her awards and honors are numerous ranging from distinguished
education awards such as the Links, Inc. Scott Hawkins Leadership
Institute Fellow to being selected by the Obama/Biden campaign to
place into nomination Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr., author of the
Violence Against Women Act 1994, as the Vice President of the United
States of America. The day she nominated Sen. Biden at the Democratic
National Convention in Denver, Colorado, history was made; as Rose
was both the first Delawarean and the first African American woman to
play such a pivotal role.
Dr. Rose, was named dean of the College of the Education at Harris-Stowe
State University in January 2018 and is the proud mother of three:
Malcolm, Victoria and Benjamin Lucas and Grandmother of Sevyn Witney
Marie Lucas