LaVerne Harmon, Gr’Ed’99, from Penn’s Graduate School of Education, will be Wilmington University’s next president, effective June 30, 2017. Dr. Harmon will be the first African-American woman to head a university in Delaware. She has served as executive vice president for Wilmington University since 2014 and has held a number of roles there since 1989.

“Dr. Harmon has always shown great determination in all she has done and accomplished,” the Hon. Joseph J. Farnan, Jr., chairman of the Wilmington board of trustees, said. “Her service and capabilities have steadily prepared her to be the next president of this university.”