Brian Hemphill
Brian O. Hemphill is an American
academic administrator, researcher, author and the current president of
Old Dominion University, his third university presidency in a decade. Before taking the role at ODU, Hemphill was president of
Radford University and
West Virginia State University. On February 12, 2021, Dr. Hemphill was announced as the 9th president of
Old Dominion University in
Norfolk, Virginia. He had become president of West Virginia State University in 2012 and of Radford in 2016.
Before the West Virginia position, he had been vice president for student affairs and enrollment management at
Northern Illinois University, where he received several student and professional awards, and was praised for his work in the aftermath of a 2008 campus mass shooting. He later edited a book on campus violence as well as presenting papers on leadership and crisis management in higher education.
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