Recognizing and Honoring Dr. Robert R. Jennings as the Thirteenth President of Lincoln University

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 profession, he held a five-year term as Chairman of the NAACP Education Legal Advisory Board, served a five-year term on the Board of Directors of the University of Virginia's Council on Minority Research in Special Education, completed a four-year term on the Joint Commission on Faculty Accountability for the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, and completed a three-year term as a charter member of the

Commission on Philanthropy for the Council for Advancement and Support of Education

. He is a former member of the Board of Trustees of Atlanta University, Southwestern Christian College, and Leadership Foundation of Atlanta and a former member of the Board of Directors of the Huntsville Chamber of Commerce and Girl Scouts, Inc.; and

WHEREAS, Dr. Jennings is in great demand as a speaker and trainer and has published articles in several scholarly journals and served as a columnist for

Minority Health Today

and edited a book on the

State of Black Men in America

in 1994. He is the recipient of more than 30 major citations and awards including being selected as a Regional Finalist for a White House Fellowship and he is listed in several major publications including

Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges, Outstanding Young Men of America, Outstanding Personalities of the South, International Register of Profiles, Who's Who Among Black Americans, Who's Who Among Special Educators, Who's Who in the South

,

and the

International Directory of Distinguished Leaders

. Now, therefore be it

RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, that we hereby recognize and honor Dr. Robert R. Jennings as the thirteenth President of Lincoln University.

FURTHER RESOLVED, that an engrossed copy of this resolution be presented to Dr. Jennings as an expression of the sincere sentiments of this legislative body.

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