2 The Hampton Roads Messenger


Volume 12 Number 3


December 2017


NSU Board of Visitors Selects Interim President


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NSU Interim President Dr. Melvin T. Stith Photo Courtesy of Syracuse University


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Board of Visitors Friday, November 10 appointed Vice Rector Dr. Melvin T. Stith to serve as the university’s interim president while the Board delineates a plan to conduct a national search for a new president.


and a longtime supporter of the university. He was


Stith, 71, is a 1968 NSU alumnus selected for


the


position aſter current NSU President and CEO Eddie N. Moore, Jr., announced his intentions to retire in September. Stith has


served on the


BOV since 2013 and as the vice rector at Norfolk State since 2016. Friday, November 10, he resigned from his board role and will begin as interim president on Jan. 1, 2018.


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Stith received his bachelor’s degree in sociology from NSU, and his MBA and Ph.D. in marketing from the Martin J. Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University, in 1973 and 1978.


Stith, a U.S. Army veteran who


worked in Military Intelligence Command and achieved the rank of captain, has more than 30 years of experience in higher education and has served in leadership roles at several institutions. He is the dean emeritus at the Syracuse University Whitman School of Management and served in that role from 2005 to 2013. He also served as the dean and the Jim Moran Professor of Business Administration in the College of Business at Florida State University from 1991 to 2004. Stith has also worked at other academic institutions that include Florida A&M University and the University of South Florida.


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