Dr. Lawrence Davis, Jr.

Lawrence A. Davis Jr., a University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff alumnus, served as chancellor of UAPB for nearly two decades. He earlier taught mathematics there and kept the campus’s land-grant and HBCU mission at the center of its growth.

Chancellor of the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, 1991–2012.
Mathematician and long-serving HBCU president.
Inducted into the National Black College Alumni Hall of Fame in 2018.