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Du Bois Scholar Tapped to Lead Warner Pacific University

Dr. Brian L. Johnson, a W.E. B Du Bois scholar who served as president of Tuskegee University, has been tapped to lead Warner Pacific University (WPU), a private liberal arts university in Portland, Ore., that is affiliated with the Church of God.

June 17, 2020

Leadership & Policy

N.C. Central Names Akinleye Chancellor

University of North Carolina System President Margaret Spellings tapped Dr. Johnson Akinleye — who had been serving as interim chancellor of N.C. Central University — to lead the public historically Black institution located in Durham, N.C.

June 26, 2017

Leadership & Policy

Tuskegee Turns Again to Morris as Interim President

The Tuskegee University Board of Trustees has appointed Dr. Charlotte P. Morris to serve as the interim president of the institution beginning July.

June 1, 2017

Leadership & Policy

Tuskegee University Fires President Johnson

Tuskegee University — the private Alabama institution founded by Booker T. Washington — has fired its current president.

May 29, 2017

African-American

Michelle Obama Tells Tuskegee Grads How Racism Hits Home

On Saturday, Michelle Obama became the second first lady to visit Tuskegee University and, like Roosevelt, she used the opportunity to train a national spotlight on the issue of race.

May 10, 2015

African-American

Tuskegee University President Takes Progressive Path

What in the world is a W.E.B. Du Bois scholar doing sitting atop the university that Booker T. Washington helped to create?

March 3, 2015