The Corporate Chancellor
University System of Georgia Chancellor Erroll B. Davis Jr. wrestles with how to measure success in higher education, but he has a few ideas.
Erroll B. Davis Jr.
Title: Chancellor, University System of Georgia
Previous title: Chairman, Alliant Energy Corp.
Higher ed ties: University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents,
1987-1994; former chairman, board of trustees, Carnegie Mellon
University; Member, Board of Trustees, the University of Chicago
Education: B.S.: Electrical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 1965; M.B.A: Finance, University of Chicago, 1967
Add the name Erroll B. Davis Jr. to the ever-growing list of chancellors who have been plucked from the world of business and industry. Among the factors that make his appointment to head the vast Georgia postsecondary system so unusual, he is not a son of the South. He’s never headed a higher education institution. And to the dismay of many, he is not inclined to provide special dispensation to the state’s three historically Black colleges and universities.
In August, Davis sat down with Frank L. Matthews, Diverse publisher and editor in chief, to talk about his vision for the University System of Georgia.
