TUSKEGEE UNIV. PRESIDENT
Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges as a visit- ing peer review team member. She is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Southern Education Foundation and the Ala¬bama School of Cyber Technology and Engi- neering. A native of Kosciusko, Missis¬sippi, Morris completed a bach¬elor’s degree in business educa¬tion at Jackson State University, a master’s degree in business administration and manage¬ment at Delta State University, and a Ph.D. degree in educa¬tion and business management from Kansas State University. She has completed additional graduate-level coursework at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education’s Institute for Educational Management, higher education administration coursework at Southern Illinois University-Carbon¬dale, and summer institutes in curric- ulum develop¬ment in higher education. A resident of Montgomery, Alabama, since 1983, Morris is a Golden Life Member of the Montgomery Alumnae Chap- ter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., a member and for- mer president of the Agnes J. Lewis Women’s Club, and a member of the Lilly Missionary Baptist Church, where she serves on the usher board, as a Sunday School teacher, and as a member of the missions’ circle. She also holds mem- bership in the Tuskegee Chapter of The Links, Inc. Addi- tionally, she holds/has held membership in the Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM), Beta Gamma Sigma National Honor Society in Business, the Golden Key National Honor Society, the National Council of Negro Women, and the American Council on Education. Among Morris’ accolades are membership in Leader¬ship Montgomery’s Class XXIX, Tuskegee Universi¬ty’s Distin- guished Administrative Staff Achievement Award, Bush Foundation Fellow, Service Award from the Charles Stew- art Mott Foundation, and inclusion in the 1992 edition of Who’s Who Worldwide. Upon completion of undergradu- ate studies, she received the “I Dare You” Award for leader- ship qualities. Morris was married to the late Dr. William R. Morris and is the parent of one adult son.
Dr. Charlotte P. Morris began her current tenure as Tus- kegee University’s 9th president on August 1, 2021. Her 30-plus-year tenure at Tuskegee has included numerous leadership and faculty appointments at the college and uni- versity levels. Her most recent prior appoint¬ment on No- vember 1, 2020, as interim president was her third appoint- ment to the university’s top post— the first having been in 2010 following the retire¬ment of President Benjamin F. Payton. Morris began her tenure at Tuskegee University in 1984 as a faculty member of the now Andrew F. Brim¬mer College of Business and Information Science. In 1987, she began serving as executive associate/chief of staff to the university president and secretary to the university’s Board of Trust- ees — duties she faithfully performed for 23 years. During the last eight years in that position, she also served as the director of the uni¬versity’s Title III program and as chair of the universi¬ty’s Convocations and Special Events Com- mittee. After concluding her first appointment as interim president, Morris returned to the Brimmer College, where she served as associate dean and professor of management — until appointed as the college’s interim dean in 2016 upon the retirement of Dean Tejinder Sara. Morris’ early career experience includes teaching appoint- ments at Trenholm State Community College and Kansas State University. Other higher education experience in- cludes serving as program associate for planning, manage- ment, and evaluation at Mississippi Valley State University. In 2011, she was appointed by the Southern Association of
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