Dr. Carolyn W. Meyers, who will likely be the next president of Jackson State University, visits the campus today to meet with various groups. Following the meetings, the state college board will vote on Meyers' appointment.
On Nov. 22, the board of trustees of the State Institutions of Higher Learning announced that it had selected Meyers to serve as the next president of JSU. Meyers is the former president of another historically black institution, Norfolk State University in Norfolk, Va., and would the first female JSU president.
During her four-year tenure at Norfolk State, the school's freshmen enrollment increased 19 percent in one year. The university opened an honors college, additional degree programs, and a school of graduate and professional studies. Before coming to Norfolk State, Meyers served as a professor, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro, N.C. Meyers received her bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Howard University. She received her master's degree in mechanical engineering and doctorate in chemical engineering from Georgia Tech.
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