The actress behind Clair Huxtable is returning to her alma mater, as a dean.

Howard University on Wednesday named multi-award winning TV, stage and film actress and director Phylicia Rashad as Dean of The College of Fine Arts.

I would like to see a program contemporized without losing knowledge. I would like to see faculty empowered to create and produce and design robust systems and a robust program. I would like to see students engaged in the disciplines of fine arts as they participate and engage in the university at large. I would like to see us graduate artists who are scholars as well,” she said. “And I would love to see us be a premiere program at the university. I would like to see the College of Fine Arts not only reestablished, but see it exulted.”