Dr. Lawrence T. Potter, Jr., was appointed UDC’s Chief Academic Officer/Provost in February 2019. With

more than two decades in higher education, Dr. Potter has moved through the professorial ranks as an

assistant, associate, and full tenured professor. On the higher education leadership front, he has served

as a department chair, associate dean of the faculty, two-time chief diversity officer (CDO),

Director/Principal Investigator of a McNair Scholars Program, and Dean of Arts and Sciences for eight

years, at two Minority-Serving Institutions.