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Baton
Rouge, La. - A Southern University System Board of Supervisors’ Chancellor
Search Committee, charged with assisting the SU System with selecting a new
chancellor/dean for the Southern University Agricultural Research and Extension
Center (SU Ag Center)/College of Agriculture, announces finalists for the
position.
The
committee, chaired by Kirkland Mellad, vice chancellor for research, emeritus,
SU Ag Center, and former dean for the College of Agriculture, Family and
Consumer Sciences, SU Baton Rouge, selected the following candidates as
finalists:
Adell Brown Jr., interim chancellor, Southern
University Agricultural Research and Extension Center, earned a bachelor of
science in agricultural business, a MBA from the University of Southwestern
Louisiana (now UL Lafayette), and a Ph.D. in agricultural economics from LSU.
Ivory W. Lyles, dean and director of land-grant programs,
Alcorn State University, earned a Ph.D. from The Ohio State University, a
master of science from Mississippi State University, and Bachelor of Science
from Alcorn.
Bobby R. Phills, retired director, Small Fruit
Research and Integrated Pest Management Program, Florida A&M University
(FAMU) and former dean and director, College of Engineering Sciences,
Technology and Agriculture, FAMU, and former dean, and research director,
College of Agriculture, Family and Consumer Sciences, SUBR, earned a bachelor
of science from Southern University, a master of science and a Ph.D. in
agricultural sciences from LSU.
The Board
of Supervisors will interview the three finalists during its August meeting, August
26, at Southern University Shreveport. The new chancellor will replace Leodrey
Williams, who retired June, 2015 after more than 40 years of service, and as
chancellor since the SU Ag Center campus was established in 2001.
About the
SU System
The
Southern University System was created in 1974 by constitutional mandate, which
fashioned it into the Nation’s only historically black 1890 Land-Grant
University System. Presently, the System is composed of five
institutions: Southern University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
at Baton Rouge (est. 1880), Southern University Law Center (est. 1947),
Southern University at New Orleans (est. 1956), Southern University at
Shreveport (est. 1964), and the Southern University Cooperative Extension
Program (est. 1972), which became the fifth component of the System in 2001 and
is now named Southern University Agricultural, Research and Extension Center.
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