- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (4 video files (1 hr., 37 min., 55 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- College president King Virgil Cheek was born on May 26, 1937, in Weldon, North Carolina. He earned his B.A. degree in economics from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine in 1959; his M.A. degree from the University of Chicago in 1967; and his J.D. degree from the University of Chicago in 1969. Cheek was a college dean and vice president at Shaw University in North Carolina. In 1969, he was appointed president of Shaw. He was then named president of Morgan State University in Baltimore, where he worked until 1974. He became vice president of the Union for Experimenting Colleges and Universities, later serving as its president from 1976 to 1978. Cheek developed the Center for Leadership and Career Development in Washington, D.C. He served in a number of posts at New York Institute of Technology. Cheek also worked to launch non-traditional medical schools in Africa, Asia and Europe.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with King V. Cheek, Jr.
- King V. Cheek, Jr.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Edgar Carey Lane.
- OCLC
- 1000518758
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with King V. Cheek, Jr.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States naf
- Playing Time
013755
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Racine Tucker Hamilton, interviewer.
- Credits
Videographer, Edgar Carey Lane.
- Event
Recorded Silver Spring, Maryland 2004 June 14.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
University President.
- Added Author
Cheek, King Vergil, interviewee.
Hamilton, Racine Tucker, interviewer.
Lane, Edgar Carey, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.