dailypress.com August 15, 2011 HU's Harvey: Haysbert not hired to succeed me By Samieh Shalash and Jennifer L. Williams After former Hampton University Provost JoAnn Haysbert announced that she is returning to HU this spring to serve as executive vice president, I asked President William R. Harvey if he intends to groom her to take over the presidency. He's held HU's top spot for 33 years. "That is not part of the plan," Harvey said, "but she would clearly make an outstanding president." Harvey pointed out that Haysbert is the fifth HU official who has left to serve as the president of a different college or university who has come back to work for him. She will be the number two officer at HU, he said, a position he has not filled for about six years. Haysbert is currently at Langston University in Oklahoma, a historically black college that she has led for six years. "We're not bringing her back to succeed me," Harvey stressed. "We're not bringing her back to do that." 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.