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Recognizing and Honoring Dr. Robert R. Jennings as the Thirteenth President of Lincoln University
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WHEREAS, on January 2, 2012, Dr. Robert R. Jennings became the thirteenth President of Lincoln University; and
WHEREAS, Dr. Jennings is a graduate of Morehouse College where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology and a graduate of Atlanta University where he received a Masters degree in Educational Psychology/Elementary Education, Specialist Degree in Interrelated Learning, and Doctorate in Education in Administration and Policy Studies and he holds a Masters Certification in Adult Basic Education from the University of Georgia, Masters Certification in Curriculum and Instruction and Gifted Education from Georgia State University, and Dr. Jennings studied abroad as a Oxford Roundtable Scholar in Oxford, England, Fulbright Fellow in Recife, Brazil, and Charles Merrill Fellow at the University of Ghana in West Africa; and
WHEREAS, Dr. Jennings has had a distinguished career in higher education where he served as the tenth President of Alabama A&M University and various executive-level positions at Wake Forrest University, North Carolina A&T University, Albany State University, Norfolk State University, Atlanta University, and he is the dissertation advisor for educational and public administration majors at the Union Graduate School in Cincinnati, Ohio; and
WHEREAS, in addition to his extensive record of service and accomplishment in higher education, Dr. Jennings has served as a Loaned Executive to the Reagan Administration where he served in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and he has served as an evaluator for the U.S. Department of Education, lead trainer for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and consultant to the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Services and U.S. Department of Treasury; and
WHEREAS, Dr. Jennings is active in both his community and his pr...
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