Under the leadership of President David H. Swinton, Benedict College (North Carolina) has provided leadership and support for local economic development, benefitting both the community and the school. Trustees invested college endowment funds to help save the sole black-owned banking institution in the state, which now promises to become a…

William P. Hytche opened a successful campus diner at the University of Maryland, Eastern Shore while a faculty member. Later, as chancellor, he expanded the historically black university substantially to keep it from merging, becoming a community college, or closing, and garnered support in surrounding communities. The retiring administrator has…