Released On:
Monday, May 03, 2010
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Wiley College Public Relations
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DR. JOHN SILVANUS WILSON, JR. TO ADDRESS GRADUATES AS WILEY COLLEGE'S 2010 COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER
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Dr. John Silvanus Wilson, Jr. will serve as the 2010 Commencement Speaker at Wiley College’s 121st graduation ceremony on May 8, 2010 at 9:30 a.m. in the Theatre Auditorium of the Marshall Convention Center. Dr. Wilson currently serves as the executive director of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).
Dr. Wilson is responsible for leading the initiative’s mission of strengthening the capacity of the 105 HBCUs, the White House, 32 federal agencies, and the private corporate and philanthropic sectors. Their challenge is to ensure that HBCUs are a significant force in helping the nation to reach the goal set by President Barack Obama of having the highest proportion of college graduates in the world by the year 2020.
Dr. Wilson received a bachelor’s degree from Morehouse College, a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard University, and both a master’s and a doctoral degree in administration, planning and social policy, also from Harvard University.
Wilson has recently served on the Board of Trustees of Spellman College in Atlanta, GA, as a consultant for the United Negro College Fund Institute for Capacity Building HBCU Institutional Advancement Programs, and a member of the Kresge Foundation’s Black College Advisory Board. From 1996 through 2000, he served as chairman of the Alumni Council of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He has served on the boards of both the Samaritans and the Andover Newton Theological Schools.
Wiley College will confer over 180 degrees at this year’s commencement ceremony. Wiley College is a four-year, private, historically black, liberal arts college located on the west side of Marshall, Texas. Founded in 1873 by the Methodist Episcopal Church's Bishop Isaac Wiley and certified in 1882 by the Freedman's Aid Society, it is notable as one of the oldest predominantly black colleges west of the Mississippi River. A Place Where Every Student Can Succeed.
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