The Dillard Notables of 2017: The Complete List

Walter M. Kimbrough

2 min readJan 2, 2018

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Here is the complete list of our notables for 2017.

7 Dillard Notables from 2017: The Honorable Mentions

It’s time for my annual list of memorable DU moments from 2017. I really had more than 7 (I use the number 7 because I…

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Dillard Notable #7 of 2017: The Resurgence of Dillard Basketball

This news story from February really said it all — we saw a resurgence of Dillard men’s basketball, something that we…

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Dillard Notable #6 of 2017: The Co-Curricular Signature Programs

We have two very active co-curricular signature programs that both made lots of noise this year. First, our Ray Charles…

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Dillard Notable #5 of 2017: Miss Dillard & the Ebony Campus Queens

A few years ago Ebony changed their long standing tradition of publishing photos of all the HBCU campus queens. In its…

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Dillard Notable #4 of 2017: Guess Who Came To Campus?

2017 has been a crazy year just based on the notable thought leaders, entertainers, activists, stars and politicos that…

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Dillard Notable #3 of 2017: Public Intellectuals & Politicians

I’ve always said that Dillard has a great number of public intellectuals for a small school. In 2017, we were even more…

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Dillard Notable #2 of 2017: Fundraising Records

One of the biggest stories was our record alumni giving. I wrote a post this summer which discussed the trend from 4…

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Dillard Notable #1 of 2017: Hidden Physics

When I first arrived at Dillard in 2012 I had over 200 one on one meetings with members of the faculty and staff to…

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We’re going to start off 2018 with a bang as well. Keep up with Dillard University using these key social media platforms:

Dillard University (@du1869) | Twitter

The latest Tweets from Dillard University (@du1869). Celebrating 148 Years of Excellence and Heritage #MYDU. New…

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Dillard University (@dillarduniversity) * Instagram photos and videos

2,828 Followers, 236 Following, 671 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Dillard University (@dillarduniversity…

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Dillard University

Written by Walter M. Kimbrough

12th president of Philander Smith College. 7th president of Dillard University. Interim president, Talladega College

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