Diverse Issues in Higher Education August 16, 2011 Dorothy Cowser Yancy Returns to Shaw University Presidency by Diverse Staff RALEIGH, N.C. - Shaw University, a historically Black university in North Carolina, has turned to the interim president who headed the school before its most recent leader, Dr. Irma McClaurin, assumed leadership last year, according to the News & Observer of Raleigh, N.C. Shaw University trustee chairman Willie Gary announced Monday that Dr. Dorothy Cowser Yancy will once again be interim president. She held that position for more than a year prior to Shaw appointing McClaurin president last September. McClaurin resigned from her presidency and departed the Raleigh school last week. This week Shaw resumes classes, nearly four months after a tornado ripped through the downtown Raleigh campus. Gary said Yancy is expected to arrive on campus sometime in the next 30 days and has told him she would remain in the president's job no longer than two years, the News & Observer reported. Upon her appointment, Yancy became Shaw's first woman president. She had served as president at another historically Black institution, Johnson C. Smith University, in Charlotte, N.C., for 14 years. In 2009, Yancy took over Shaw after the abrupt announcement that school president Clarence Newsome was taking a one-year leave of absence and would not return, according to news reports. SANDRA M. PHOENIX Program Director HBCU Library Alliance sphoenix@hbculibraries.org<mailto:sphoenix@hbculibraries.org> www.hbculibraries.org<http://www.hbculibraries.org/> 404.592.4820 Skype:sandra.phoenix1 1438 West Peachtree Street NW Suite 200 Atlanta, GA 30309 Toll Free: 1.800.999.8558 (Lyrasis) Fax: 404.892.7879 www.lyrasis.org<http://www.lyrasis.org/> Honor the ancestors, honor the children.