Fisk University Names Nashvillian Dr. Agenia Walker Clark as Next President
(纳什维尔TN-Sept. 12) The 校董会 of Fisk University announced today the appointment of Dr. Agenia Walker Clark as its next president, effective November 6, 2023. She will be the University’s third female head and the 18th president of the 158-year-old-university, one of the nation’s highest-ranking Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).
She replaces interim president Frank Sims, a member of the 校董会, who has served in that position since 2021.
Dr. Clark most recently served as CEO for the Girl Scouts of Middle Tennessee – where, during her 19-year tenure, she increased the agency’s operational efficiencies, 增加储备, 新建设施, and transformed the agency into one of the highest performing of the 111 councils in the Girl Scout network.
“Dr. Clark’s lifelong dedication to improving the lives of young people, along with her unique combination of fundraising and brand-building skills, are exactly what Fisk needs today,朱丽叶·普莱尔说, chair of the Fisk 校董会.
“我知道奥巴马医生. Clark’s bold ideas will positively impact our campus community today while assuring a fast-growing trajectory for the future.”
Prior to the Girl Scouts, Dr. Clark was the Vice President of 人力资源 for the Tennessee Education Lottery Corporation, Senior Director of 人力资源 at Vanderbilt University and directed human resources for Canadian telecommunications provider Nortel Networks, where she also served as a manager of government relations.
“To serve a new generation of brilliant, socially minded students—not unlike their counterparts of decades past, 像W.E.B. 艾达·杜波依斯. Wells-Barnett, John Lewis and Dr. Diane Nash—is surely the honor of my lifetime,” said Clark. “No institution of higher-ed has a richer legacy—or a richer promise for the future—than Fisk.”
Dr. Clark was named “Nashvillian of the Year” in 2021 and as one of “Nashville’s 100 Most Powerful People,” 2015–2020, 由 Nashville Business Journal. An inductee into the Academy for Women of Achievement, she is also a 纳什维尔的帖子 Person-In-Charge (2014–2021). She is also a member of the International Women’s Forum (IWF), a member of the 2016 Class of Leadership Tennessee, and 1996 Class of Leadership Nashville.
She currently serves on the corporate board of directors for FirstBank Financial Corporation (NYSE: FBK) as well as the boards of trustees for Belmont and Simmons Universities – and is a trustee emerita on the board of the Haslam School of Business at the University of Tennessee, 诺克斯维尔.
Dr. 克拉克得了B.S. and MBA from the University of Tennessee, 诺克斯维尔, and her Doctorate in Leadership from Vanderbilt University.
The year-long search for Fisk’s 18th president was led by Board Trustee JoLinda Herring ’85, in conjunction with executive search and leadership advisory firm, Russell Reynolds Associates.
“The Board was searching for a uniquely bold and visionary leader, and we found her in Dr. 克拉克，”普赖尔说.
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