Dr. Harvey talks with students outside Mansion House, the president’s residence, located on the waterfront on the Hampton University campus. The house, built in 1828, was the main house for the plantation called Little Scotland that once stood on the grounds.
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End of an era
Hampton University President William R. ‘Bill’ Harvey is stepping down June 30 after 44 years at the helm
Hampton University, one of the nation’s first historically black institutions, was a small struggling four-year college on the banks of the Hampton River near the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay when an ambitious, young Dr. William R. “Bill” Harvey Jr. from Tuskegee Institute in Alabama was chosen as president of the institution.
