Education
University of Chicago. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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William Pollard
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Career
As President of Medgar Evers College, he succeeded Doctor Edison O. Jackson (1989–2009), Doctor Leo A. Corbie (Acting, 1987–1989), Doctor Jay Carrington Chunn, 2nd (1984–1987), Doctor Dennis Paul (Interim Administrator, 1982–1984), and Doctor Richard Trent (1970–1982). Doctor Pollard began his tenure at Syracuse University in 1989, serving as dean of the Syracuse University School of Social Work for ten years, where he led the School in its development of a student-centered program Following this, he became the founding dean of the School of Human Services and Health Professions until he left for the University of the District of Columbia in 2002.
In 1976, Doctor Pollard joined the University of Pittsburgh, where he was named the coordinator of the Community Organization Skills Secretariat at the University.
In 1972, Doctor Pollard was the Social Welfare department head at Livingstone College. Doctor Pollard earned his Master of Social Work from the University of North Carolina School of Social Work, and a Bachelor of Arts from Shaw University.
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Doctor Pollard received his Doctor of Philosophy in policy and planning from the University of Chicago School of Social Administration in 1976, where the members of his dissertation committee included the late John Hope Franklin, the brilliant historian and educator who, in 1956, became the first African-American department chair at a major college when he was named chairman of Brooklyn College’s history department.
