Meet the semi-finalists for president

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Elmira Mangum, since January 2010 has served as vice president of Budget & Planning at Cornell University.  She is responsible for managing Cornell’s resources and the annual operating and capital budgeting processes.  This allows Mangum to provide leadership in applying university resources to meet Cornell’s institutional priorities and academic programming needs by leveraging all of the division resources available through space planning, institutional research, and business intelligence and information systems.
She has more than 25 years of experience in executive higher education financial and resource management, her administrative leadership began at the University of Wisconsin- Madison.  Dr. Mangum has also held positions at the University at Buffalo (UB) a State 
University of New York system university.  From 1984 to 2001 at various times she served in the role of assistant dean, associate provost for resource management and as vice provost.  For approximately nine years she served at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, leaving as Senior Associate Provost in 2010 to become a Vice President at Cornell University.  

She holds a BS in Geography and Education from North Carolina Central University, two masters from the University of Wisconsin, and Ph.D from SUNY-Buffalo.
About Cornell:  Cornell University is a private, comprehensive doctoral/research university (very high research) with about 20,500 students. Cornell is a member of the Ivy League.


John Maupin Jr. is president of the Morehouse School of Medicine. Under his leadership, the MSM maintained its standing as one of the nation’s leading producers of African-American professionals in medical fields, and was ranked first by the Annals of Internal Medicine’s inaugural survey of the social mission of American medical schools.

Maupin announced his plans to retire from MSM this past June, and will leave the presidency on June 30, 2014.

Maupin came to MSM after leading Meharry Medical College in Nashville, TN, from July 1994 – June 30, 2006.
About Morehouse School of Medicine:  Total enrollment 344 students MSM offers the MD degree, MD/PhD and MD/MPH
Meharry Medical College: Has a total enrollment of about 787 students and offers the  M.D., D.D.S., M.S.P.H., and Ph.D.
John Price is founding president of University of North Texas atDallas.
In 2001, Dr. Price helped to establish the Dallas satellite campus of the University of North Texas-Denton and grow it into an independent institution. Under his leadership, UNT-Dallas grew   from 55 students to just over 2,000 students in 2013.
On Price’s watch faculty and staff members have complained about his leadership and the school was noted for its high faculty/staff turnover.
In a survey of UNT-Dallas faculty only 20 percent agreed that “UNTD has a climate in which faculty man. Under his leadership, UNT-Dallas grew   from 55 students to just over 2,000 students in 2013. 

The Chronicle of Higher Ed described Price as a "business-minded,  champion of 'disruptive innovation.'"  

According to the Dallas News, most UNTD students are older, transferred from other colleges, and take longer to graduate.


In a survey of UNT-Dallas faculty only 20 percent agreed that “UNTD has a climate in which faculty may speak freely without fear of punitive consequences.” Price seems “aloof” and “disinterested” in the faculty, one instructor commented.

T. Joan Robinson, Vice president for international affairs Morgan State University.  She is the chairwoman of the national HBCU-Brazil Alliance, a program that has created partnerships between Brazilian and American historically Black colleges, and has brought more than 140 Brazilian students to HBCU campuses for academic and research exchange funded by the Brazilian government. 

About Morgan State:  Is a Doctoral/Research University with a student enrollment of about 8,000 (6,591 undergrads/ 1,361 postgrads) and  Faculty/Staff 1,556.   


Woodrow Whitlow, a former associate administrator of mission support at NASA Headquarters.  He was appointed to the position on February 3, 2010. He previously served as director of the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland Ohio.

While at NASA Glenn, Whitlow managed an annual budget of $750 million and oversaw a workforce of 1,680 civil servants and 1,580 contractors.
Whitlow earned Bachelor of Science (1974), Master of Science (1975), and Doctor of Philosophy (1979) degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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