The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff issued a statement on Thursday, mourning the loss of "a beloved leader," Chancellor Emeritus Lawrence A. Davis Jr., who died Saturday at the age of 85.
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Former University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Chancellor Lawrence A. Davis Jr., who died Saturday at age 85, is remembered as a man who transformed a school that was faced with a $3 million deficit when he took over in 1991, helped it blossom with new academic buildings and renovated housing over the next two decades.
Lawrence A. Davis Jr., the chancellor emeritus of the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff and the son of the longtime president of the preceding Arkansas AM&N College, has died. He was 85.