HU Executive Summit to Address Tomorrow's Higher Education Leaders

Hampton, VA - Hampton University will host another Executive Leadership Summit² on Thursday and Friday, Nov. 3-4. The summit is designed to foster team-building, encourage networking and provide tomorrow's leaders with strategies for accomplishing personal and professional goals.

Dr. Darlene F. Williams, Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, will speak at the closing banquet on Nov. 4 at 7 p.m. Other speakers include Dr. Timothy J. Sullivan, President Emeritus at the College of William and Mary; Rev. Dr. Floyd H. Flake, Senior Pastor of the Greater Allen A.M.E. Cathedral of New York and former U.S. Congressman, and Dr. Robert M. O'Neil, Director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression at the University of Virginia and former president of the University of Virginia.

Dr. William R. Harvey, President of Hampton University for a over quarter of a century, has not only moved the University to higher levels of academic and fiscal excellence, but has assumed the mantle of bridge builder to others who aspire to become college presidents or to assume other executive leadership positions. During the past decade, 14 members from Hampton's executive team have become presidents at other institutions, carrying with them professional tenets from the Harvey Executive Leadership Model. Harvey will discuss the model on Nov. 3 at 9 a.m.

Participants will have an opportunity to openly discuss critical challenges one faces in executive roles as well as engage in interactive sessions as to how one moves into, advances and survives in such high level positions. The goal of the presenters is to pass the Executive Torch as it was passed to them. Participants are invited to join the Academic Relay.
For more information on the Summit, call 757-727-5201 or send e-mail to martha.dawson@hamptonu.edu.