John S. Wilson, once Morehouse Alumnus, now President, and His Sense of Urgency – from the AJC

Morehouse College’s new leader, John Silvanus Wilson Jr., is a Morehouse graduate who worked in the Obama administration. IMAGE: AJC

Morehouse College’s new leader, John Silvanus Wilson Jr., is a Morehouse graduate who worked in the Obama administration. IMAGE: AJC

 

New president brings sense of urgency to Morehouse

By Laura Diamond

Please click here to read the entire article in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

As a student at Atlanta’s Morehouse College in the 1970s, John Silvanus Wilson Jr. loved his college but didn’t always like it.

He shared his frustrations about the needless bureaucracy during a conversation with Benjamin Mays, the college’s former president. Mays challenged Wilson to stay at Morehouse, graduate, go out and learn a few things, and then return ready to improve the college.

Wilson, now 56, is doing just that. He returned to Atlanta last month as Morehouse’s new president, with ambitious plans to enhance one of the country’s oldest and most respected historically black colleges.

Please click here to read the entire article in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

 

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