Dr. Harvey
After more than four decades at the helm, Hampton University President William R. Harvey announced Monday that he will step down in June 2022.
A native of Brewton, Ala., Dr. Harvey, 79, came to Hampton in 1978 when it was still called Hampton Institute and was âslowly losing ground,â the university said in a news release. But under his leadership, the institution experienced a âsteady, four-decade plus climb of greatness.â
During his tenure, Hampton added 92 new academic degrees, including 12 doctoral programs; increased the endowment from $29 million to more than $300 million; put four satellites into orbit through grants and arrangements with NASA; built a weather antenna to detect hurricanes and storms up to 2,000 miles away; and opened a proton beam cancer treatment center that was one of only a handful in the nation when it opened in 2010.