The Wilmington Journal has confirmed that Shaw University’s Board of Trustees is expected to officially announce as early as next week that interim President Dr. Dorothy Cowser Yancy is stepping down after more than a year at the helm.
Sources in Raleigh, and in Washington, D.C., also exclusively confirm to The Wilmington Journal that, unless difficulties arise, the board is expected to present Dr. Alvin Thornton, formerly the interim provost and chief academic officer at Howard University, as the new president of the 144-year-old historically black institution. Dr. Thornton is a well-respected veteran member of the academic community, best known in Maryland for heading up a pioneering state commission on educational reform. (Source: The Wilmington Journal)
Note: Dr. Thornton is right on target because I agree with him 100% when he says, “Today’s crisis is not only of our children; the crisis is of ourselves — we aren’t doing anything,” Thornton told the Prince George’s Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference during its King Day celebration dinner in January 2006. ‘‘We must get and do something and our children will follow.” But the sad part is there are some folks who tries to do things but other folks don’t support them and criticize them instead of getting involved. These folks obviously don’t want to do anything and do not want to see others do things. C. Dancy II – DCN Publisher
