Morehouse School introduced the retirement of Dr. David A. Thomas as president, efficient June 30, 2025.
“Report-breaking” defines Thomas’s tenure on the School. Its progressive and impactful work has garnered worldwide consideration and partnerships with numerous notable establishments, companies, and people; functions from high-achieving college students have soared to an all-time excessive; substantial infrastructure investments have been accomplished and are in progress; and – in his seven years of service – essentially the most funds have been raised amongst any president in Morehouse’s 157-year historical past. With over 30 years in greater schooling informing his imaginative and prescient, Dr. Thomas’s time in workplace has positioned Morehouse to exert much more profound affect within the twenty first Century. After a interval of relaxation, journey, and time together with his household, he’ll be a part of the Morehouse college and support within the completion of the $500 million capital marketing campaign, which has far surpassed the midway mark since its launch in Fall 2021.
“In my inaugural handle, I promised to do the best possible I may for Morehouse, and I’ve since risen every day devoted to delivering on that promise,” stated Thomas. “Serving as president of Morehouse has been the consideration of a lifetime. The very best second for a management transition is when an establishment is powerful, and the constructing blocks are in place to realize its imaginative and prescient. I consider that point is now, and new management can convey recent eyes, vitality, and perspective to handle challenges and uncover new alternatives.”
Since 2018, Morehouse has transitioned from structural deficits to funding important campus tasks, enhancing its expertise infrastructure, and paying staff competitively. Guided by a strategic plan, substantial investments within the campus’s bodily infrastructure have been realized, together with renovating the Martin Luther King Jr. Worldwide Chapel, B.T. Harvey Stadium soccer subject, Edwin C. Moses Monitor & Area, and several other on-campus lecture rooms, labs, and lecture halls. This month, the School will break floor on a brand new residence corridor, and a brand new scholar heart will observe within the subsequent few years, heralding in a brand new period for the on-campus residential expertise.
The strategic theme of “Morehouse Past Borders” has included milestone successes such because the launch of the globally accessible Morehouse On-line undergraduate diploma completion program, management in digital actuality as a pedagogical instrument, the creation of the Heart for Black Entrepreneurship with the Black Financial Alliance and Spelman School, the institution of the Black Males’s Analysis Institute, and the Andrew Younger Heart for World Management’s Increased Schooling in Prisons program.
Willie Woods, chair of the Morehouse School Board of Trustees, expressed his gratitude for Thomas’s management. “It has been a privilege to work with and serve alongside David. His dedication to the betterment and excellence of Morehouse – my alma mater – has been unwavering. I deeply admire his daring management and contributions and am excited to see what his last yr will convey.”
Morehouse School has launched a nationwide seek for its thirteenth president, led by trustee and alumnus Fred Humphries, who will chair the presidential search committee at the moment being assembled.
Thomas affirms, “I’ll ceaselessly stay dedicated to supporting Morehouse in its pursuit of excellence and delivering on its mission. I stay up for the upcoming college yr and making it one of the best of my tenure.”
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