Talladega College on Wednesday called Gregory Vincent, who in 2018 was reduced as president of Hobart and William Smith Schools after an anonymous council accused him of plagiarism, to be his next president. Vincent will assume the rudder of the private university, historically black in Alabama on July 1.
Vincent, who currently works as an educational policy professor at the University of Kentucky, resignation as president of Hobart and William Smith after he was accused of plagiarizing sections of the dissertation of him. Vincent was before an investigation into the matter to "avoid a greater stress to the campus community," he said in a statement in 2018.
He made several changes in the review of the literature of the Dissertation of it. And he received a seal of approval from the school of education at the University of Pennsylvania, where he completed his Ph.D.
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Vincent completed the dissertation of it in 2004, 13 years before he became president in Hobart and William Smith. The Talladega College Trustee Board was aware of the search process of Plagiarism and Vincent's effort to correct it, said a spokesman for the university. The Board saw the current employment of him at the University of Kentucky as a good sign that he is qualified academic and pointed out that the "mistakes were in the literature section of him and not the substance of him" , said the spokesman.
"The Search Committee was impressed with the proven register of Dr. Vincent of exceptional leadership and the measurable results that achieved in public service, companies and academia, as well as community organizations and Civic ", Rica Lewis-Payton, Trustee and Chairman of the Search Committee, said in a statement. "Dr. Vincent is exclusively qualified to meet the current challenges facing Talladega College and better position the institution to be among the best highest learning institutions in the country." googleg.cmd.push (function () googleg.display ("dfp -ad-article_in_article"););
Usually, the work of the third party search firm to ensure that the Board has all the relevant information to make a decision, said Rod McDavis, managing director in the AGB search, so it is unlikely that the Hobart Vincent's departure and William Smith was glossed during the search process.
"Problems like this are always of concern for a search committee and a Board of Trustee. What they ask for search firms to do is to do due diligence, make the background check, do the Research and return the facts, "said McDavis. "I am sure that the Talladega College Trustee Board had all the information they needed."
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