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MELISSA HARRELL ROBINSON
Melissa Harrell Robinson currently serves as the Admissions Advisor for Upper Iowa University in the Milwaukee Center. She has previously served as the Multicultural Student Services Counselor at Waukesha County Technical College in Pewaukee, WI and as the Pre-college Program Coordinator in the Diversity Affairs Office at the College of Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has been responsible for coordinating various pre-college and recruitment initiatives for students of color throughout the state of Wisconsin, developed and coordinated a summer bridge program for underrepresented incoming freshman students in the College of Engineering at UW-Madison. She has assisted numerous students in their educational endeavors through providing academic advising and support services, counseling services, and she has been instrumental in working with student organizations. She has also served as a member of an instructional team for an introductory seminar course for freshman Engineering students.
She holds a Bachelor's Degree in History and Afro-American Studies and completed graduate coursework in Counseling (with an emphasis in Community/Mental Health Counseling) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to working in higher education, she held positions as a Social Worker and Family Specialist/Therapist in county, public, and private social service and mental health agencies.
She is a member of the Southeastern Wisconsin Educational Consortium and a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
ADRIEL A. HILTON
Adriel A. Hilton was appointed executive assistant to the president and chief diversity officer at Upper Iowa University in Fayette, Iowa. He was a public policy fellow at the Greater Baltimore Committee, where he worked closely with the CEO and policy advisors to research, develop, and advocate a public policy agenda related to the business organization’s work on such issues as economic growth, regional transportation, education and workforce preparedness.
Dr. Hilton is a graduate of the Higher Education (Ph.D.) program at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland, Hilton has been a Frederick Douglass Scholar at Clarion University of Pennsylvania in the College of Education and the Office of the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs. He was featured as one of Ebony Magazine’s “2009 Young Leaders Under 30” for his educational achievements, service to the community and leadership.
Dr. Hilton earned his master’s degree in Applied Social Science with a concentration in public administration from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University and completed his undergraduate degree as a cum laude graduate in Business Administration with a concentration in finance from Morehouse College.
In his young career so far, he has received numerous accolades, including the American Association of Blacks in Higher Education’s “Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation” award and the Outstanding Research Award from the American College Personnel Association’s Standing Committee for Men.