WSSU’s Board of Trustees elects new officers
Mona Zahir, president of the Winston-Salem State University Student Government Association, is sworn in as the student representative on the WSSU Board of Trustees while Chancellor Elwood L. Robinson, right, looks on.
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Dr. William U. Harris (’58) has been elected chairman of the Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) Board of Trustees. He is among a slate of new officers elected at the first meeting of the fiscal year on Friday, Sept. 16.
Other new officers are: Charles A. Wright, vice chair, and Scott F. Wierman, secretary.
Harris, of Charlotte, spent nearly 30 years with the Educational Testing Service, retiring as regional executive director of the College Board Middle States Regional Office in Philadelphia. He is a past chair of the WSSU Board of Visitors.
He also served on the boards of Richard Stockton State University and the Westminster Choir College; is a past member of the Ewing Township (N.J.) School Board and the Urban League of Metropolitan Trenton; and is a member of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. He was elect-ed by the Board of Governors in 2015.
Wright, of Raleigh, is the senior vice president of continuous improvement at PNC Bank. He is involved in the 100 Black Men of Cleveland. He was elected by the Board of Governors in 2013.
Wierman, of Winston-Salem, is president of the Winston-Salem Foundation. He serves on several boards, including the Trustee Advisory Council of the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable, Board of Directors for the Center for Congregational Health, the North Carolina Center for Nonprofits, Winston-Salem State University Endowment Committee, and secretary of the Campaign Coordinating Committee. He was elected by the Board of Governors to serve in 2015.
Also at the meeting, Mona Zahir, president of the WSSU Student Government Association, was sworn in as the student representative on the Board. Zahir, a senior from Charlotte, is a political science major.
