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Alumna Named President of Shaw University

Tashni Dubroy recognizes that, at 34, she is young to be named the president of a university. In fact, she says she knew when she applied to be the next president of Shaw University she was doing so “against all odds” because of her youth.

But she says one of the pleasant surprises since being named the president of the historically black university in Raleigh on Monday was learning that Henry Martin Tupper was also 34 when he founded Shaw in 1865. If Tupper could start a university at such a young age, Dubroy reasons, surely she can lead one at the same age.

Read the complete story at Red & White for Life.