Elmira Mangum

Elmira Mangum is an American educator and retired university administrator, who served as President of Florida A&M University from 2014 to 2017. She was the 11th President of FAMU and the first woman to permanently hold the position in the 128-year history of the university. She served as President until March 2017, but was on administrative leave from September 2016 to March 2017.

Biography

Elmira Mangum was born in Durham, North Carolina in 1953 to Ernest and Alice Blanche Mangum. She obtained her bachelor's magna cum laude from North Carolina Central University and went on to receive two master's degrees in public policy and public administration, as well as a master's degree in urban and regional planning, from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Subsequently, she earned a Ph.D. in educational leadership and policy at the University at Buffalo. She served as an associate provost at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for nine years and in 2010 became the vice president for budget and planning at Cornell University.