Linda Y. Jackson Named Vice President Of Institutional Advancement
Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021
Linda Y. Jackson has been named Vice President of Institutional Advancement at Huston-Tillotson University, President Dr. Colette Pierce Burnette announced.
“Mrs. Jackson’s 22-year history with the University places her in an IDEAL position to support our current alumni engagement, fundraising, development, public relations, and marketing efforts,” Dr. Burnette said. “I am excited to see how Institutional Advancement will flourish and advance with new initiatives under her leadership.”
In her most recent role as Director for the Center for Civic Engagement and Community Outreach, Jackson advanced the University’s overall mission as a liaison to engage the community to HT’s educational partnerships. Jackson has also served the University as Director of University Relations.
The Little Rock, Arkansas native graduated from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville with a bachelor’s degree in journalism, earned a Master’s degree in business administration from LeTourneau University in Dallas, Texas, and completed the Harvard Graduate School Management and Leadership in Education Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
She serves on the following boards: Preservation Austin, president-elect; MeArts!; the University of Arkansas National Alumni Association and Black Alumni Society boards; and she served as president of the Wells Branch Homeowners’ Association. Community engagements include: representing the University as part of the Preservation Plan Working Group and Grade Level Reading Coalition-United Way of Greater Austin, in addition to attending NAACP, Forklift Danceworks, Compassionate Austin, and neighborhood events and meetings. Previous community engagement efforts include serving as chair of the Austin Independent School District’s Single-Sex School Public Relations and Student Recruitment Action Team, a member of the 2014 IH-35 Capital Improvement Program Mobility Stakeholder’s Working Group, 2010 conference chair for the Council for the Advancement and Support of Higher Education, and former member of March of Dimes Texas State Program Services Committee. She is a member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated, serving in local and regional positions.
Honors and awards include: communications recipient during the Fourteenth Biennial African American Women’s Profiles of Prominence, Austin Metroplex Chapter of the National Women of Achievement, Inc. (NWOA), Community Service and Leadership Awards – University of Arkansas Black Alumni Society; 2020- 2021 Huston-Tillotson University President’s Vanguard Award, and the 2013-2014 Huston-Tillotson University Staff of the Year Award. Yvette’s Bakery Box, her culinary business, earned a top award in the “Say it Ain’t Say’s” Sweet Potato Pie Contest. She holds the distinction as the first African American female track athlete at the University of Arkansas with records still intact.
Jackson is married to Rodney W. Jackson and has one daughter LaVita Y. Gill. She maintains an active, daily exercise lifestyle. She also has a committed spiritual life and is a member of Sweet Home – Pinnacle of Praise in Round Rock, Texas.
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