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President m christopher brown ii giving closing remarks at founders day convocation
M. Christopher Brown II is the past President of Alcorn State University. He was elected to the position unanimously by the Mississippi Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning in late 2010 and resigned in December 2013.
Contents
- President m christopher brown ii giving closing remarks at founders day convocation
- Office Hours KSU president M Christopher Brown II on HBCUs and proving institutional value
- About M Christopher Brown II
- Alcorn State University Presidency
- Alcorn State University Resignation
- Educational Background
- Administrative Experience
- Honors and awards
- References
Office Hours: KSU president M. Christopher Brown II on HBCUs and proving institutional value
About M. Christopher Brown II
M. Christopher Brown II was the 18th president of the nation’s first historically black land-grant institution, Alcorn State University. He is the former executive vice president and provost at the Fisk University where he was also a professor. Prior to this appointment, he served as dean of the College of Education at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, vice president for Programs and Administration at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, director of Social Justice and Professional Development for the American Educational Research Association, as well as executive director and chief research scientist of the Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute of the United Negro College Fund. Brown has held faculty appointments at Pennsylvania State University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Alcorn State University Presidency
Brown was named president of Alcorn State University in November 2010. In three years with the university, Brown was regarded for efforts to increase enrollment at the historically black college, which grew to more than 4,000 for the first time in the school's history in 2011. In October 2012, months after Alcorn was named 'HBCU of the Year' by the Center for HBCU Media Advocacy, Brown accepted a unanimous four-year extension of his contract from the Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning Board of Trustees.
In September 2012, Brown hired Jay Hopson as the first white head football coach in the history of Alcorn State, and the Southwestern Athletic Conference. In 2014, Hopson and the Braves won the school's first SWAC conference football championship in 20 years.
In 2013, under Brown's leadership, Alcorn State University unveiled a statue of civil rights activist and ASU alumnus Medgar Wiley Evers, the largest of its kind in the world. That same year, Brown was named HBCU Male President of the Year by the Center for HBCU Media Advocacy.
Alcorn State University Resignation
M. Christopher Brown II resigned from Alcorn State University.