BATON ROUGE, La. –- The top 10 applicants for Southern University’s chancellor job include Philander Smith College’s “hip-hop prez” and a former LSU administrator.
The Advocate of Baton Rouge reports that the DHR International search firm Monday submitted 10 names to the university’s search committee. The panel meets again April 5 to decide who they’ll invite to campus for formal interviews.
DHR Executive Vice President Robert Clayton described some of the applicants as rising “superstars,” including Philander Smith College President Walter Kimbrough, who is also known as the “hip hop prez,” and Gregory Vincent, vice president for diversity and community engagement at the University of Texas. He previously served as vice provost for academic affairs and campus diversity at LSU.
“If you took a vote of the student body, they would say search over,” Clayton said of Kimbrough. “He’s the No. 1 superstar, young president in the country.”
Clayton also spoke highly of other sitting or former college presidents in the running, such as:
Tony Atwater, former president of Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
George Bradley, president of Paine College In Augusta, Ga.
