Jamie Riley

Jamie R. Riley (born c. 1981 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a former executive director of Alpha Phi Alpha and an assistant vice president and dean of students at the University of Alabama.

Riley completed a bachelor of science in health care administration and a master of education in leadership at Tennessee State University in Nashville, as well as a PhD in counseling and student personnel services at the University of Georgia in Athens in 2011. His doctoral dissertation was entitled, "Racism, Discrimination, and Prejudice: Through the Voices of Black Men on Predominately White College Campuses."

Riley has taught at the University of Maryland, College Park; the University of California, Berkeley; Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia; and the University of Georgia. He has been employed as an administrator for student affairs and diversity and inclusion at Johns Hopkins University; the University of California, Berkeley; Longwood University; The University of Georgia; Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia; and Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green. Riley began his term as executive director of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity on January 3, 2017.

He began working as Alabama's assistant vice president and dean of students on February 25, 2019. He left that position in September of the same year, a day after Breitbart News published screenshots of social media posts Riley had made in 2016 and 2017, one of which associated the United States flag with the nation's history of racism and racist policing.

References

• "Tennessee State University: Jamie R. Riley" (September 2002) Ebony, Vol. 57, No. 11, p.56
• "Alpha Introduces Its New Executive Director" (n.d.) Alpha Phi Alpha - press release
• "UA Names Dean of Students." (December 13, 2018) University of Alabama - press release
• Koplowitz, Howard (September 5, 2019) "Jamie Riley, UA’s dean of students, resigns following Breitbart story on controversial tweets." The Birmingham News
• Thornton, William (September 9, 2019) "Alumni, students, others question UA dean’s departure." The Birmingham News