JCSU News Release

JCSU President Inducted into Charlotte Hall of Fame

Dr. Dorothy Cowser Yancy

April 3, 2008 - The National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women’s Clubs, Inc. and the Levine Museum of the New South recently inducted Johnson C. Smith President Dr. Dorothy Cowser Yancy into its Women’s History Hall of Fame.

Dr. Yancy was inducted on March 28, 2008 along with Honorable Susan Burgess, Dr. Carlether Burwell, Geneal B. Gregory, Bridget-Anne Hampden, Carlenia Graham Ivory, and Joan Thompson Miller. These women represent a cross-section of Charlotte/Mecklenburg women in politics, business, entrepreneurship, religion, community activism, health and wellness, and education.

Dr. Yancy is credited with helping JCSU become one of the top historically black institutions in the nation. JCSU was the first historically black college in the nation to offer laptops to all of its students, and continues to blend technology with a liberal arts education.

During her tenure at JCSU, students contribute thousands of hours each year to the local community and beyond. JCSU has been recognized two years in a row for distinguished community service by the President’s Higher Education Community Service program.

In her 14^th year of leading JCSU, Dr. Yancy will leave the presidency on June 30, 2008, to pursue other interests. She received bachelor’s degrees in history and social science from JCSU in 1964, followed by an M.A. degree in history from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a Ph.D. in political science from Atlanta University. She is listed as an arbitrator with the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Services and the American Arbitration Association and is a special magistrate with the Florida Public Employee Relations Commission, the first African American appointed to that post.