Seasoned Leaders

Black Issues in Higher Education, August 19, 1999 by Cheryl D. Fields

The following higher education presidents/chancellors of color have been at their respective two- or four-year institutions for 15 or more years:

African American Presidents

Marjorie Harris, Lewis College of Business, since 1965
Jack Evans, Southwestern Christian College, since 1967
Norman Francis, Xavier University, since 1968
Benjamin F. Payton, Tuskegee University, since 1981
Calvin W. Burnett, Coppin State University, since 1970
Luns S. Richardson, Morris College, since 1974
Oswald P. Bronson Sr., Bethune-Cookman College, since 1975
Boniface Hardin, Martin
  University, since 1977
William R. Harvey, Hampton
  University, since 1978
Lionel B. Sylvas, Northern
  Virgina Community College-Woodbridge,
  since 1978
Henry Givens Jr., Harris-Stowe
  State College, since 1979
Ernest B. Holloway, Langston
  University, since 1979
James M. Rosser, California State
  University-Los Angeles,
  since 1979
Julius Jenkins, Concordia
  College, since 1980
Charles W. Simmons,
  Sojourner-Douglass College,
  since 1980
Phail Wynn Jr., Durham
  Technical Community
  College, since 1980
A. Zachary Yamba, Essex County College, since 1980
Edward B. Fort, North Carolina State University, since 1981
  (retired spring 1999)
Yvonne Kennedy, Bishop State Community College, since 1981
Benjamin F. Payton, Tuskegee University, since 1981
Johnny L. Harris, J.F. Drake State Technical College, since 1982
George A. Pruitt, Thomas Edison State college, since 1982
Vera K. Farris, Richard Stockton College, since 1983
Herman D. James, Rowan University, Since 1984(*)
Earl S. Richardson, Morgan State University, Since 1984(*)
Kenneth Smith, Chicago Theological Seminary, since 1984(*)

Hispanic Presidents

Juan B. Nazario-Negron, American University of Puerto Rico,
  since 1974
J. Gilbert Leal, Texas State TC-Harlingen, since 1978
Miguel Nevarez, University of Texas-Pan American, since 1981
Carlos A. Plazas, Saint Augustine College, since 1981
Louis J. Rodriguez, Midwestern State University, since 1981
Rafael A. Lago, American Intercontinental University, since 1982
Tomas Arciniega, California State University-Bakersfield,
  since 1983
Sharon Diaz, Samuel Merrit College, since 1984(*)

Native American Presidents

Lionel Bordeaux, Linte Gleska University, since 1973
David Gipp, United Tribes Technical College, since 1977
Faith Smith, NAES College, since 1978
David Cothrun, Taft College, since 1980
Martha McLeod, Bay Mills Community
  College, since 1981
Janine Pease-Pretty on Top, Little Big
  Horn College, since 1983
James Shanley, Fort Peck Community
  College, since 1984(*)

(*) Presidents marked by an asterisk are celebrating their Crystal Anniversary with Black Issues.3