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LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA – The Lincoln University Board of Trustees named Dr. Richard Green to serve as interim president of the university at its annual meeting on April 18. He will assume the role effective July 1.
Dr. Green will lead the university as it continues to address issues and opportunities that have characterized it as a leader in the offering of quality higher education programs to meet the needs of its students.
“The Board of Trustees is confident that the skill-sets Dr. Green brings with him, as a result of his experience in higher education, will ensure that The Lincoln University is able to move, both effectively and efficiently, through its third century providing educational excellence for this great institution,” said Kimberly A. Lloyd ’94, Chairman of the Board.
The university’s Acting President, Dr. Valerie Harrison, will resume her duties as the university’s General Counsel and assist Dr. Green with his transition. Dr. Harrison led the institution through the end of the 2014-15 fiscal year, following the resignation of former President Dr. Robert Jennings in late November 2014.
“I look forward to supporting Dr. Green as he leads the university through this important transition, as we position Lincoln to be a leader in higher education,” said Dr. Harrison.
Currently, Dr. Green serves as interim provost of St. Cloud State University in St. Cloud, Minnesota, where he has worked since June 2014 while that university conducted its search for a provost. Prior to that, he held other interim positions at Albany State University in Georgia, National Louis University in Illinois, Alcorn State University in Mississippi and Midland Lutheran College in Nebraska. He was also Assistant to the President at the State University of New York College at Buffalo, New York.
Over the years, Dr. Green also served in numerous other university leadership posts, including president of Jefferson Community College in Kentucky and interim president of Metropolitan State University in Minnesota and acting president at Midland Lutheran College. In addition,
he has held faculty and teaching positions at Metropolitan State University, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Concordia College at Moorhead, Minnesota, University of Louisville, Kentucky State University and North Dakota State University. In addition to his appointments in higher education, he also served as Assistant to the President and CEO at Honeywell Inc. and as Director of Executive Education for the company.
Dr. Green earned his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Concordia College, a master’s degree in physical chemistry from North Dakota State University and his doctorate in inorganic chemistry from the University of Louisville. He also is a graduate of the Harvard University Institute of Educational Management.
Dr. Green will be joined by his wife, Dr. Dorothy Green. They are parents of two adult children, Kim and Richard, and are very proud of their three grandchildren.
Founded in 1854, The Lincoln University (PA) is the FIRST of four Lincoln Universities in the world and is the nation’s FIRST degree-granting Historically Black College and University (HBCU). The University combines the elements of a liberal arts and science-based undergraduate curriculum along with select graduate programs to meet the needs of those living in a highly technological and global society. Today, Lincoln, which enrolls a diverse student body of approximately 2,000 men and women, possesses an international reputation for preparing and producing world-class leaders such as Thurgood Marshall, the FIRST African American U.S. Supreme Court Justice; Lillian Fishburne, the FIRST African American woman promoted to Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy; Langston Hughes, the noted poet; Kwame Nkrumah, the FIRST president of Ghana; Nnamdi Azikiwe, the FIRST president of Nigeria and a myriad of others.