Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with King V. Cheek, Jr.
King V. Cheek, Jr.
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| Other authors / contributors: | Cheek, King Vergil, interviewee.
Hamilton, Racine Tucker, interviewer.
Lane, Edgar Carey, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Edgar Carey Lane.
Racine Tucker Hamilton, interviewer.
Recorded Silver Spring, Maryland 2004 June 14.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| 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.
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