President of Howard University

The President of Howard University is the chief administrator of the university and the ex officio chairman of the Howard University.^[1] Each is appointed by and is responsible to the other members of that body, who delegate to him or her the day-to-day running of the university. The current incumbent is Wayne A.I. Frederick physician and surgeon born in Trinidad Tobago.

Each president is a qualified academic professor in some department of the university and teaches courses on occasion.

History

Howard University was founded in 1866. It was named after Civil war hero General Oliver Otis Howard, a white man whom fought American Civil War was commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau, a U.S. federal government agency established in 1865 to aid freedmen (freed slaves) in the South during the Reconstruction era of the United States, which attempted to change society in the former Confederacy.

Presidents of Harvard

• Charles B. Boynton (1867) First Howard president.
• Byron Sunderland (1867–1869)
• Oliver Otis Howard (1869–1874)
• Edward Parmelee Smith 1875–1876)
• William Weston Patton (1877–1889)
• Jeremiah Rankin (1890–1903)
• John Gordon (1903–1906)
• Wilbur P. Thirkield (1906–1912)
• Stephen M. Newman (1912–1918)
• Durkee, J. Stanley (1918–1926) Last white president in Howard University
• Mordecai Wyatt Johnson (1926–1960) First Afroamerican Howard president and longest in office.
• James Nabrit (1960–1969)
• James E. Cheek (1969–1989)
• Franklyn Jenifer (1990–1994)
• Joyce Ladner (1994–1995) Firs woman president of Howard University.
• H. Patrick Swygert (July 1, 1995 – June 30, 2008)
• Sidney A. Ribeau (October 1, 2013 – August 2008)
• Wayne A.I. Frederick (August 2008 – December 2013) Interim
• Wayne A.I. Frederick (July 21, 2014 – present)

See also

• Howard University
• Hampton University
• University of Maryland Eastern Shore
• Morgan State University
• New Orleans University
• Virginia State University

References

External links

• Official Website