Hampton, Sybil (1944 - )

Sybil Hampton

As Assistant Dean of Student Academic Affairs at the School of Family Resources and Consumer Sciences, Sybil Hampton aspired to create a supportive and enriching environment for all students.

Among her formative educational experiences were her tense years at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1959 - 1962, amid the hisses and taunts of white students resisting the court-ordered integration of the public schools, and the warmth of Earlham College, from which she graduated with a B.A. in English literature in 1966. She went on to earn an M.S. in Teaching from the University of Chicago in 1968 and an Ed.D. from Teachers College, Columbia University in 1991. Before accepting the position of Assistant Dean of Student Academic Affairs here in 1987, Hampton was an elementary school teacher at the Louis Champlain School in Chicago and Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs at Iona College in New Rochelle, New York. Influenced particularly by her experiences at Earlham, Hampton extended her own welcome to students, supporting them in their Wisconsin careers.

She left Wisconsin in 1993 for Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas where she served as Special Assistant to the President and Associate Professor of Education. Today she is President of the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, Little Rock, Arkansas.