Dr. Harley Flack slated to become 1st black prexy of Wright State University

Jet, Jan 10, 1994

Dr. Harley E. Flack,executive vice-president/provost at Rowan College of New Jersey Glassboro, will become the fourth president of Wright State University in Dayton, OH, effective February 1. He is the university's first Black president.

Flack, 50, is also the first Black president in any state institution of higher education in Ohio. Wright State has a student population of 17,295. About 7 percent--or 1,139--of the students are Black.

Flack has served at Rowan since 1989. From 1987 to 1989, he served as academic vice president for the State University of New York College at Old Westbury and was dean of the College of Allied Health Sciences at Howard University in Washington, DC, from 1974 to 1987. From 1969 to 1974, Flack held a number of positions at the State University of New York at Buffalo, including assistant dean of the School of Health Related Professions.

He earned a bachelor's degree in physical therapy from Ohio State University, a master of arts degree in rehabilitation counseling from Kent State University and a Ph.D. in counselor education from SUNY-Buffalo. Flack and his wife, Mignon, have four sons.