Dr. Melvin Stith, Vietnam War Veteran and Diversity Advocate

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🗓️ 2 December 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Melvin Stith is a transformative leader in and out of the military. He joined the Army as a commissioned officer after earning his bachelor's degree in sociology at Norfolk State in 1968, serving with the Military Intelligence Corps. He served in Vietnam until 1972 and retired as a Captain.

After returning from the war, Dr. Stith pursued further education, obtaining his MBA and PhD from Syracuse University. He would dedicate the following decades in the academe, holding prestigious positions as the chairman of the marketing department at Florida State University, dean of Florida State’s business school, and Jim Moran Professor of Business Administration, among others.

Dr. Stith is also notable as a founding member of the PhD Project, a national program that advocates for diversity in the business world. Dr. Stith talks about the importance of improving recruitment in the military and highlighting the benefits of making a career from serving the country.

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1:19.3	Syracuse University, PhD Project.org, on the show.
1:24.0	Welcome.
1:24.7	Thank you.
1:25.1	It's great to be with you today.
1:27.3	Oh, you know, there's a whole story
1:29.3	that I want to read about you right now.
1:31.0	And I know that we started going through you know getting everything all
1:34.0	squared away so let me pull that up real quick and it tells a little bit about
1:36.7	Dr. Smith's background so let me pull that up real quick here I had it okay so here's what we're going to read.
1:44.0	Dr. Stith, served in Vietnam as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Army's Military Intelligence
1:49.3	Corps after graduating from college.
1:51.0	When he returned home, he enrolled in Syracuse University and earned his M. graduating from
1:53.7	college. When he returned home, he enrolled in Syracuse University and earned his MBA and PhD in
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