Hubert “Hub” Brown previously served as associate dean for research, creativity, international initiatives and diversity, and an associate professor of broadcast and digital journalism at Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications.
As associate dean, Brown managed the Newhouse School’s incentives to facilitate research and creative activity, aided department chairs, the School’s Diversity Committee, and individual faculty members in promoting diversity in curriculum, faculty hiring and student recruitment, and promoted international engagement among faculty and students, including student/faculty exchange, memoranda of understanding and promotion of the Newhouse School abroad.