Dr. George Cooper will be the administration’s public face for HBCU’s, working with Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and 32 other federal agencies that provide grants and financial assistance to the nation’s black colleges.
Dr. Ivory A. Toldson, a tenured associate professor of education at Howard University and a rising star in academia, has been selected by the White House to serve as Cooper’s deputy director.
Cooper fills the vacancy left behind by Dr. John Silvanus Wilson Jr., who left the post to become president of Morehouse College in Atlanta earlier this year.
