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| Chancellor Leodrey Williams |
Baton
Rouge, LA – Leodrey Williams, Chancellor of the
Southern University Agricultural Research and Extension Center officially
announced his retirement during the Southern University Board of Supervisors’
meeting today. His announcement comes
after serving for the past 50 years, working with both Southern University and LSU
in Baton Rouge, as well as Washington DC at the national level, in Cooperative
Extension Service. Over the past 14
years, he has served as the first and only chancellor of the Center. His retirement from the university will be
effective June 30th 2015.
Williams was hired as an agriculture
specialist 50 years ago. Five years later, he went to LSU and served as
associate state agent, director of Equal Employment Opportunity and associate
professor in the Department of Extension and International Education, positions
he held for four years. In 1980, he became extension director at Southern
University. Soon after, Williams would move to Washington DC where he served as
the national director of the Cooperative Extension Service, making him
responsible for funding extension programs at 104 land-grant universities around
the country. Williams returned to Southern University and resumed his previous
role as Extension Director in 1995. Then, in 2001 Williams was asked to head
the newly-formed Southern University Agricultural Research and Extension
Center.
The SU Ag Center, the 5th
campus of the Southern University System was established on July 1, 2001. The mission of the Center is to conduct basic
and applied research, and disseminate information to the citizens of Louisiana
in a matter that is useful in addressing their scientific, technological,
social, economic and cultural needs.
For more information about Dr.
Leodrey Williams, go to: http://www.suagcenter.com/chancellors-welcome
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Contact: Bridget Udoh
(225)
771-5714
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