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Dorothy Cowser Yancy is an American academic, professor, and administrator. Her contributions to academia established her legacy of scholarship among African-American women. During college, Yancy participated in civil rights organizations, earned several degrees, including a Ph.D. in political science, and completed the Fulbright Program. She went on to teach at the School of Social Sciences at Georgia Institute of Technology, becoming the first African-American to become a tenured full professor. She left Georgia Tech in 1994 to become the president of Johnson C. Smith University, in Charlotte, North Carolina. In 2009, Yancy became the 14th president of Shaw University and was elected to the position again in 2011 as the 16th president. She received many awards and honors for her dedicati

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  • Dorothy Cowser Yancy is an American academic, professor, and administrator. Her contributions to academia established her legacy of scholarship among African-American women. During college, Yancy participated in civil rights organizations, earned several degrees, including a Ph.D. in political science, and completed the Fulbright Program. She went on to teach at the School of Social Sciences at Georgia Institute of Technology, becoming the first African-American to become a tenured full professor. She left Georgia Tech in 1994 to become the president of Johnson C. Smith University, in Charlotte, North Carolina. In 2009, Yancy became the 14th president of Shaw University and was elected to the position again in 2011 as the 16th president. She received many awards and honors for her dedication to higher education. (en)
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  • 1944-04-18 (xsd:date)
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  • Dorothy Cowser (en)
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  • Pictured at the 2014 HBCU National Conference. (en)
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  • Yvonne Cowser Yancy (en)
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  • Howard Cowser (en)
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  • Linnie Bell Covington Cowser (en)
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  • Dorothy Cowser Yancy (en)
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  • Professor, academic, and university administrator (en)
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  • 1994 (xsd:integer)
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  • Robert James Yancy (en)
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  • Gaddis Faulcon (en)
  • Irma McClaurin (en)
  • Ronald L. Carter (en)
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  • December 2013 (en)
  • September 2010 (en)
  • June 2008 (en)
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  • October 1994 (en)
  • September 2011 (en)
  • June 2009 (en)
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  • Dorothy Cowser Yancy is an American academic, professor, and administrator. Her contributions to academia established her legacy of scholarship among African-American women. During college, Yancy participated in civil rights organizations, earned several degrees, including a Ph.D. in political science, and completed the Fulbright Program. She went on to teach at the School of Social Sciences at Georgia Institute of Technology, becoming the first African-American to become a tenured full professor. She left Georgia Tech in 1994 to become the president of Johnson C. Smith University, in Charlotte, North Carolina. In 2009, Yancy became the 14th president of Shaw University and was elected to the position again in 2011 as the 16th president. She received many awards and honors for her dedicati (en)
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