Jarrett Carter Sr. named VP of External Affairs, Communications, and Advancement
Howard Community College (HCC) announces the appointment of Jarrett Carter Sr. in the new position of vice president of external affairs, communications, and advancement. Mr. Carter brings years of higher education, government, and private sector experience to HCC. He joins the college on September 1, 2023 and will oversee the areas of public relations and marketing, and development.
Jarrett Carter Sr. is the founding editor of the HBCU Digest (2010-2021) and worked with dozens of historically Black institutions, higher education advocacy groups, corporations, and nonprofit organizations to foster stronger ties between the HBCU sector and diverse industries. As a corporate communications and higher education subject matter expert, he specializes in crisis and external communications, executive search, programmatic development, and constituent relations.
As a reporter, Carter covered every significant legislative, financial, and policy-based action impacting America's HBCUs over a career spanning 12 years. He was the authoritative fact-gathering and editorial voice on issues concerning accreditation action, federal guidance on Title IX policy, appropriations, cultural phenomena, and leadership trends. In print, he has been featured in Black Enterprise, Ebony Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Economist, the Huffington Post, and the Chronicle of Higher Education, in addition to dozens of industry publications and local news affiliates. In broadcast, he has been a featured education expert on CNN, MSNBC, Huffington Post and NBC.
In private industry and government, his stops as communications lead and spokesperson include Morgan State University, Volunteers of America, BGE, and Howard County Government.
A native of Seat Pleasant, MD, Carter's expertise areas include accreditation, crisis and external communications development, faculty and student engagement, recruitment, legislative lobbying and monitoring, corporate engagement and relationship building, media training, and academic program assessment and development.