Evans promoted to SCSU interim president

W. FRANKLIN EVANS, Ph.D.
Interim President
SOUTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY

ORANGEBURG, South Carolina -- Following several hours in closed session on Thursday, South Carolina State University board Chair Charlie Way announced that Dr. W. Franklin Evans is being promoted from acting president to interim president.

The board did not vote in open session but Way announced that “as of today, the board has declared that Dr. Evans is no longer acting president, but is now the interim president of South Carolina State University.”

Way said the board made the decision in closed session.

“The only thing that occurred in executive session was discussion, but the only action that was taken – that took place in the executive session – was that we as the board have nowWW decided to elevate Dr. Evans from acting president to interim president of South Carolina State University,” he said.

Bill Rogers, executive director of the S.C. Press Association, said that under the S.C. Freedom of Information Act, such decisions must be made in open session.

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