Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School graduate Kofi A. Cash successfully defended his dissertation and completed his doctoral degree on Feb. 7 at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Cash earned his doctorate (D.S.c) in healthcare leadership.
The title of Cash’s dissertation is: “Does CEO Education Matter? The Relationship Between Doctoral-Educated Hospital CEOs and Organization Performance.” Cash’s oral dissertation defense is available on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/dRn8B_yi
After graduating from MVRHS, Cash earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from the Commonwealth Honors College at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a master’s degree in health policy and the evaluative clinical sciences from Dartmouth Medical School. Cash also completed a certificate in healthcare leadership from Cornell University.
Cash will be relocating to the Boston area in March, where he will be continuing his career as a healthcare executive and hospital operator. He still spends time on the Vineyard.
But, but, but, the Island schools are no damn good….
Some of the students are not fluid in English.
Pretty sure he didn’t graduate recently, do you think before you speak?
I did think.
I saw what schools MVRHS students went off to thirty years ago.
I have seen what schools MVRHS students have gone off to lately.
MVRHS just keeps getting better.
Are you a MVRH graduate?
A graduate?
Are you a wash a shore, some tend to get really Island negative after a ten or twenty years, best for the island if they move on.
Great achievement, much further than I ever got. A couple of questions for the writer, please. When did he graduate? Was his family involved in the Vineyard schools? They must be proud.
Congratulations Kofi!
Graduated in 1996. My father was Superintendent of Schools here on the island from 1995 – 2004.
Graduated in 1996. Lettered in football, basketball, and baseball. My father was Superintendent of Schools here on the island from 1995 – 2004. During this time period, the high school was recognized as a blue ribbon school.
I have an outstanding family member/graduate of MVRHS, in college, and excelling
There are thousands of Islander MVRHS graduates who have reached similar academic heights.
They just don’t get a headline in the local paper
Congrats to Kofi, and the great service of his father made (I remember) in the administration that made those thousands of graduates exposed to, and committed to excellence.
Send in your accolades of the graduates you know, or have seen, who have excelled to the newspaper for recognition
Cheers