President Robert R. Jennings'
Profile
Dr. Robert R. Jennings
Robert
R. Jennings became the thirteenth President of Lincoln University on
January 2, 2012. Dr. Jennings brings with him many years of experience
in strategic planning, operational and financial management, program
and policy development, fundraising, research (grants/contracts)
development/management, and student affairs. His career in higher
education includes serving as the tenth President of Alabama A&M
University as well as serving in various executive-level positions at
Wake Forest University, North Carolina A&T State University, Albany
State University, Norfolk State University and Atlanta University. In
addition to his extensive record of service and accomplishment in
higher education, Dr. Jennings has served as a Loaned Executive to the
Reagan administration and was assigned to the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, and he has served as an evaluator for the U.S.
Department of Education. He has also served as a consultant to the U.S.
Customs and Border Patrol Services, the U.S. Department of Treasury and
was a Lead Trainer for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Dr.
Jennings is a dissertation advisor for educational and public
administration majors at the Union Graduate School in Cincinnati, Ohio
and is the owner of Gems Loving Care, personal care homes that cater to
the elderly in metro-Atlanta. Since 1985, he has traveled and/or
studied in more than 35 foreign countries. In 1999, he served as a
consultant to the U.S. Department of State, where he trained the Rector
and his staff in the areas of strategic planning and external relations
at the University of Niamey in Niger, Africa. In 2001, Dr. Jennings was
tapped by the Government of Rwanda and served as a consultant to the
Kigali Institute of Science, Technology and Management. Currently, he
is Chief Consultant to the Macon County School System in Oglethorpe,
Georgia and is Chief Facilitator on a Kellogg Grant to strengthen race
relations in Charlottesville, Virginia. He has also served as a
consultant to the Garrett Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois.
Active
in both his community and his profession, Dr. Jennings held a five-year
term as chairman of the NAACP Education Legal Advisory Board, served a
five-year term on the Board of Directors of the University of
Virginia’s Council on Minority Research in Special Education, and
completed a three-year term as a charter member of the Commission on
Philanthropy for the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.
A former member of the Board of Trustees of Atlanta University,
Southwestern Christian College and Leadership Foundation of Atlanta, he
completed a four-year term on the Joint Commission on Faculty
Accountability for the American Association of State Colleges and
Universities, is a former member of the Board of Directors of the
Huntsville Chamber of Commerce and the Board of Directors of Girl
Scouts, Inc.
The recipient of more than
30 major citations and awards, he was selected as a Regional Finalist
for a White House Fellowship. He is listed in several major
publications including Who’s Who Among Students in American
Universities and Colleges, Outstanding Young Men of America,
Outstanding Personalities of the South, International Register of
Profiles, Who’s Who Among Black Americans, Who’s Who Among Special
Educators, Who’s Who in the South and the International Directory of
Distinguished Leaders.
In great demand
as a speaker and trainer, Dr. Jennings has published articles in
several scholarly journals; served as a columnist for Minority Health
Today and edited a book on the State of Black Men in America in 1994.
Dr.
Jennings is a graduate of Morehouse College where he received the
Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology and Atlanta University where he
received the Masters degree in Educational Psychology/Elementary
Education, a Specialist degree in Interrelated Learning and a Doctor of
Education degree in Administration and Policy Studies. He also holds
Masters Certification in Adult Basic Education from the University of
Georgia and Masters Certification in Curriculum and Instruction and
Gifted Education from Georgia State University. He has studied as a
Charles Merrill Fellow at the University of Ghana in West Africa, as a
Fulbright Fellow in Recife, Brazil and as an Oxford Roundtable Scholar
in Oxford, England.
