Wilberforce University has named Dr. Vann Newkirk as its 23rd president, succeeding Dr. Elfred Anthony Pinkard who announced his retirement last year.
Vann Newkirk will serve as the 23rd president of the country's oldest private historically Black university beginning in July. He currently serves as interim associate vice president at Alabama A&M University in Huntsville and will succeed Elfred Anthony Pinkard, who announced his retirement as president last March.
Newkirk formerly served as vice president of academic affairs, provost, and president of Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. He is also a noted historian who has written extensively on crime and punishment in North Carolina and is currently writing a history of African Americans in Alabama.
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