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EARL STANFORD RICHARDSON, Ed.D., President, 1984-2010
President, Morgan State University, from November 1, 1984 to June 30, 2010. Interim President, November 1, 1984 to 1985.
Executive Assistant to Chancellor, University of Maryland System, 1975-82. Assistant to President, University of Maryland System, 1982-84. Former Director of Career Planning, and Placement Director and Acting Director of Admissions and Registration, University of Maryland Eastern Shore.
Member, Task Force on Violence and Extremism, 1981-84; Hall of Records Commission, 1984-2010. Chair, Segmental Advisory Committee, State Board for Higher Education, 1986-88. Member, Segmental Advisory Council, Maryland Higher Education Commission, 1988-2010; Executive/Legislative Committee to Examine Simulcasting in Maryland, 1989; Advisory Committee on Manufacturing, Department of Economic and Employment Development, 1992-94.
Member, Task Force to Study College Readiness for Disadvantaged and Capable Students, 2000-01; Baltimore Region Rail System Plan Advisory Committee, 2001-02; State Planning Committee for Higher Education, 2004; Commission to Develop the Maryland Model for Funding Higher Education, 2006-08; P-20 Leadership Council of Maryland, 2007-10; Joint Legislative and Executive Commission on Oversight of Public-Private Partnerships, 2010.
Born in Westover, Maryland, September 25, 1943. University of Maryland Eastern Shore, B.A. (social science), 1965. Served in U.S. Air Force, 1965-69. University of Pennsylvania, M.S. (educational administration), 1973, Ed.D. (educational administration), 1976. Fellow, Ford Foundation; Kellogg Foundation. Member, Baltimore Vision 2030 Committee; Baltimore/Washington 2012 Coalition; Maryland Education Coalition Advisory Board; LifeBridge (a National Institutes of Health/ Department of Health and Human Services working group); Commission on International Education of the American Council on Education; Goldseker Foundation. Board of Trustees, Baltimore City Historical Society, 2002-. Board member, Educational Testing Service; Quality Education for Minorities Network; Baltimore Museum of Art; Black College Alumni Hall of Fame Foundation. Honorary Board member, Baltimore Neighborhoods Inc.; The Partnership for Learning. Former board member, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Greater Baltimore Committee; Committee of 100 for the Science Center; Alvin Ailey Dance Theater Foundation of Maryland; Maryland Business Roundtable for Education; National Board of the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, 1992. Former chair, National Association for Equal Oppurtunity in Higher Education (current secretary). Profile of a Leader Award, Morgan State University, 1995. Award of Excellence, Baltimore Region, Thurgood Marshall College Fund, Inc., 2008. Lifetime Achievement Award, Associated Black Charities of Maryland, 2010. Married; one child.
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