Title

Dr. Samuel Nabrit

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Challenges

• Provided leadership during Civil Rights Movement
• Supported TSU students’ involvement -including protests and sit-ins-while facing pressure from city officials and community leaders who wanted to protests to stop

Accomplishments

• Improved university’s finances
• Improved math and science instruction and raised faculty standards
• Dissolved overseer position to give president’s office full authority
• Responsible for growth in academic instruction, campus facilities and programs to facilitate economic opportunities for African Americans
• Enhanced extracurricular activities and athletic program
• Received appointments from President Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson