Every Tuesday the D.J's Music Site HBCU Campaign organization will highlight a HBCU Chancellor or President. This is in promotion of our social media campaign to bring awareness and support the excellence of historically black colleges and universities.

This Tuesday (3/31/15), we highlighted Dr. Cynthia Warrick, (pictured on the right with the Grambling Tiger Mascot), President of Grambling State University.

Dr. Cynthia Warrick was appointed interim presidential appointment at Grambling State University on July 1, 2014. Prior to her appointment, Warrick served as interim president at South Carolina State University (2012-2013) where she prevented the closure of a major academic program threatening the degrees of over 200 professional nursing students. She successfully lobbied the South Carolina Legislature to increase university funding and improve the institution's public relations in the wake of negative publicity and established key agency and private sector partnerships.

Warrick ventured into higher education 16 years ago serving in multi-faceted leadership roles as an administrator, public servant, healthcare professional, environmental research scientist, faculty member, and accreditation reviewer. She serves as Senior Fellow for the Center for Minority Services Research at Howard University's College of Pharmacy, a position she has held since 2009.

Warrick has also served as Dean and Chief Research officer and Tenured full professor of Pharmacy (2006-2011) at Elizabeth City State University in North Carolina; associate professor and director of environmental and occupational health at Florida A&M University and assistant professor in the Division of Management, Policy & Community Health at the University of Texas School of Public Health in Houston.

Warrick earned a doctoral degree in environmental science and public policy at George Mason University, a master's degree in public policy from Georgia Institute of Technology and a bachelor's degree in pharmacy from Howard University.

President Warrick is featured in the 2015 HBCU Campaign HBCU Featured Desk Calendar. You can purchase a copy by going to our store.

For more information about Grambling, visit www.gram.edu.