July 16, 2025
Dr. F DuBois Bowman has returned to his alma mater to steer Morehouse into a brand new period.
The most recent president of Morehouse School has formally begun his tenure on the HBCU, chatting with his advanced imaginative and prescient for the all-mens’ establishment.
Dr. F. DuBois Bowman didn’t initially envision his profession path resulting in instructional management. A Morehouse alum, the biostatistician and public well being chief discovered his manner by turning into a dean on the College of Michigan Faculty of Public Well being.
His work on this position led to a name about returning to his alma mater. Excited to participate within the search course of, his deep ties to the establishment paved the best way for his new place inside its historical past. Talking to WABE, Bowman mentioned his journey again to Morehouse.
“Morehouse is residence for me, and having studied there and being an alum, [it’s] an establishment that I’ve maintained deep ties to over time; it was a name that I used to be actually excited and actually thrilled to get,” defined Bowman. “And in order that was the start. And clearly, these sorts of issues are actually concerned, selections to make and a search course of to get by, however one which I used to be actually excited and desperate to take part in.”
He additionally plans to fulfill an advanced technology of scholars the place they’re, whereas nonetheless sustaining this historic college’s mission towards tutorial excellence.
“Establishments need to evolve… Our college students these days they’re totally different. They’re totally different than the younger man that I used to be once I arrived on campus, and we’ve to fulfill them the place they’re, strive to determine how greatest to help them, how greatest to take them and lead them alongside their very own instructional journeys and actually put together them for the workforce and to be optimistic brokers of change in society.”
He needs his presidency outlined by how effectively the establishment prepares its college students to excel professionally and academically. Nonetheless, given Morehouse’s historical past inside civil rights and racial justice, he additionally needs students to blossom into “optimistic brokers” for social change.
“As a university president, what I wish to prioritize for the scholars first is their tutorial preparation. However that’s in preparation to be optimistic brokers for change in society. And so I would like college students to be socially engaged and civically important thinkers. And there, if there are issues that come up that they really feel the proper plan of action is demonstration, then that could be a pathway for them.”
Like many HBCUs, funding stays a looming concern. As president, he goals to reinforce fundraising efforts to increase the school’s tutorial profile. This funding is not going to solely help scholarships but additionally assist renovate campus dorms and enhance scholar assets.
“So a part of my job as president might be to proceed doing fundraising and different issues like that, to offer instructional help, monetary help for college kids, in order that we will help college students in want, but additionally have the ability to appeal to the very best and brightest minds who’d have alternative to go wherever within the nation after we need them to return to Morehouse as a result of we really feel like Morehouse could be within the sort of surroundings the place they’ll thrive.”
Whereas some political pressures, from federal funding to DEI pushback in increased training, sit on Bowman’s thoughts, his dedication to service for the Morehouse college students, alumni, and HBCU neighborhood takes high precedence.
“[Service] is de facto the spirit through which I come again now, and that’s to serve and having simply deep appreciation and gratitude for the way the establishment formed me, not simply academically by my instructional journey, however as a younger man. And people issues have stayed rooted in me all through, and that subsequently, I feel, [exists] in my management model and my management orientation and method.”
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