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Lincoln University PA – William R. Miller IV and Darisha K. Miller were the first father-daughter duo to partner with Lincoln University’s Executive-in-Residence Program. The two lectured at the University on separate occasions, exposing students and faculty to the successful practices of political organizing and strategic communications employed at their Philadelphia based firm, Ross Associates, Inc.
William Miller IV founded Ross Associates, Inc. in 1981 as a political consulting firm, directing electoral politics and campaigns. Ross Associates has provided communication planning and consulting to a wide range of corporate and not-for-profit organizations including: the Philadelphia Phillies, the Greater Philadelphia Urban Affairs Coalition, PRWT Services Inc., and Foundations, Inc.
He was the co-founder of former Governor Robert P. Casey’s Advisory Commission on African American Affairs, and is a founding board member of the African American Chamber of Commerce of Philadelphia.
He served as the University’s Executive-in-Residence for the month of October.
Like her father, Darisha Miller has made countless contributions to the field of strategic communications, public affairs and media development.
Darisha Miller serves as director of Media Relations at Ross Associates, Inc. She is also the producer of a WURD 900 AM weekly talk radio show, “School Days,” featuring former Chairwoman Sandra Dungee Glenn of Philadelphia School Reform Commission. D. Miller is vice president of Philadelphia Chapter of Black Public Relations Society, member of the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists, and on the Board of Directors of The Business Center for Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise.
D. Miller was an Executive-in Residence speaker for the month of March. She spoke to students and staff from two of the University’s Centers of Excellence: Mass Communications and Business Information and Technology (BIT). She will return to the University on March 20 as the keynote speaker for a luncheon sponsored by the Lincoln University chapter of National Council of Negro Women.
Since 2003, Lincoln University’s Executive-in-Residence Program has served as an outlet for both students and faculty to interact with business executives on a local, regional, and international level. The program gives top members of corporate America a chance to take perspective look at Lincoln University. Executives are given a chance to tour the campus, speak with students and staff within a certain major, and set-up a business meeting with the student body.
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Lincoln University – founded in 1854 as the nation’s first Historically Black University – combines the best elements of a liberal arts and sciences-based undergraduate core curriculum and selected graduate programs to meet the needs of those living in a highly technological and global society. The University enrolls approximately 2,500 undergraduate and graduate students.
Internationally recognized for preparing learners and producing world-class leaders in their fields, Lincoln has created five academic Centers of Excellence-programs of distinctions. They are: Lincoln-Barnes Visual Arts, Grand Research Educational Awareness and Training (GREAT) for Minority Health, Mass Communications, Teacher Education and Urban Pedagogy and Business and Information Technology.