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Tashni Dubroy On Shaw University And The Future For HBCUs

WUNC News | By Anita Rao,
Charlie Shelton
Published July 26, 2017 at 2:24 PM EDT
After serving as the youngest president of Shaw University, Tashni Dubroy accepted a postion as executive vice president and chief operating officer of Howard University.
Tashni Dubroy
After serving as the youngest president of Shaw University, Tashni Dubroy accepted a postion as executive vice president and chief operating officer of Howard University.

Tashni Dubroy has served as president of Shaw University in Raleigh since 2015. As president, Dubroy has helped bolster the South’s oldest historically black university. She has been credited with increasing the school’s enrollment and closing a $4 million fundraising gap. Earlier this month, Dubroy was recognized for her work and awarded Female President of the Year at the 2017 Historically Black Colleges and Universities Awards. Now Dubroy is stepping away from Shaw University to work for Howard University in Washington D.C. as executive vice president and chief operating officer.

Guest host Anita Rao talks with Dubroy about her time at Shaw University and the changing landscape for higher education.

Guest host AnitaRaotalks withDubroyabout her time at Shaw University and the changing landscape for higher education.

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Anita Rao
Anita Rao is the host and creator of "Embodied," a live, weekly radio show and seasonal podcast about sex, relationships & health. She's also the managing editor of WUNC's on-demand content. She has traveled the country recording interviews for the Peabody Award-winning StoryCorps production department, founded and launched a podcast about millennial feminism in the South, and served as the managing editor and regular host of "The State of Things," North Carolina Public Radio's flagship daily, live talk show. Anita was born in a small coal-mining town in Northeast England but spent most of her life growing up in Iowa and has a fond affection for the Midwest.
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Charlie Shelton