Schools
Morehouse President Stepping Down
After five years at the helm of one of the nation's top all-male colleges, President Robert Franklin will step down at the end of the school year.
Morehouse College President Robert M. Franklin will step down from the top position at the landmark Atlanta school on June 30, Morehouse announced in a news release yesterday.
Morehouse administrators said in the release that the school has launched a search to identify a new president. If a replacement is not selected by July 1, Franklin will continue in the position until a new president is found, but no later than Dec. 31.
Following his departure, Franklin plans to spend his sabbatical as a scholar-in-residence at Stanford University's Martin Luther King Jr. Institute and then return to Morehouse in the role of distinguished professor, the notice said.
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"I look forward to a sabbatical during which I intend to travel, write, speak and interview leaders about the condition of boys and men in the U.S. and around the globe, research that I began years ago in my book, Crisis in the Village," Franklin said.
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