Howard University selects a new president, a historian

Vimal Patel 05 May 2023

Howard University, the renowned historically black institution in the United States that was founded to educate freed slaves, has selected a historian of Latin America as its next president, as the university’s leaders hope to continue its trajectory of surging enrolment and research growth, writes Vimal Patel for The New York Times.

Ben Vinson III, who has served as provost of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland since 2018, was chosen to be the 18th president of Howard, a 156-year-old university in Washington, DC, that counts Vice President Kamala Harris, the former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and the author Toni Morrison among its alumni. He will assume the post on 1 September.

The move, announced by the university on Tuesday 2 May, comes at an energised time for Howard, which has scored a series of wins in recent years, including record research expenditures and high-profile academic hires. Vinson will need to keep up the momentum, as well as deal with students who have staged sit-ins and protested conditions at the university.
Full report on The New York Times site

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