Gwendolyn O'Neal
President of Bennett College
Interim
In office
June 21, 2019 – August 1, 2019
Preceded byPhyllis Worthy Dawkins
Succeeded bySuzanne Elise Walsh
Personal details
Born1946 (age 77–78)
EducationBennett College
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Ohio State University

Gwendolyn Sneed O'Neal (born 1946) is an American academic administrator and home economist who served as the interim president of Bennett College in 2019. She was a professor and head of the department of consumer, apparel, and retail studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro until 2014. O'Neal is a former president of the International Textiles and Apparel Association and of the National Coalition for Black Development in Home Economics.

Life

O'Neal was born in 1946.[1] She earned a B.S. from Bennett College in 1970.[1] She completed a M.Ed. at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) in 1971.[1] From 1971 to 1975, she served as an instructor of clothing and related arts at Bennett College.[1] She completed a Ph.D. in home economics from Ohio State University in 1977.[1] She majored in textile and clothing.[1] Her dissertation was titled, Clothing Effects as Nonverbal Communication on Credibility of the Message Source in Advertising.[1] Mary Lapitsky was her doctoral advisor.[1]

O'Neal joined Bennett College as an assistant professor of home economics in 1977.[1] For six years, she was a professor and head of the department of apparel, textiles, and interior design at Kansas State University.[2] She later became a professor and head of the department of consumer, apparel, and retail studies at UNCG.[3] In November 2003, she was designated a fellow of the International Textile and Apparel Association.[2] O'Neal was president of the International Textiles and Apparel Association (2004) and of the National Coalition for Black Development in Home Economics.[2][4] She retired from UNCG in 2014.[4] O’Neal succeeded Phyllis Worthy Dawkins as the interim president of Bennett College on June 21, 2019.[3] She was succeeded by Suzanne Elise Walsh on August 1.[3] She continued on as the chief operating officer.[3]

O’Neal is a member of the Mount Zion Baptist Church in Greensboro.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 O'Neal, Gwendolyn Sneed (1977). Clothing effects as nonverbal communication on credibility of the message source in advertising (Ph.D. thesis). Ohio State University. OCLC 11636871.
  2. 1 2 3 "Gwendolyn Sneed O'Neal , UNCG NC DOCKS (North Carolina Digital Online Collection of Knowledge and Scholarship)". libres.uncg.edu. Retrieved 2023-11-26.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Bennett alumna and career educator tapped to help lead College during transition". Bennett College. 2019-08-21. Retrieved 2023-11-26.
  4. 1 2 "2003 ITAA Fellow – Gwendolyn O'Neal" (PDF). 2003.
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