The first female president of Shaw University is leaving her position, WRAL News learned Tuesday.
The university called Irma McClaurin’s resignation a “mutually agreed-upon decision.”
McClaurin was the first woman to hold the permanent job of steering one of the oldest historically black colleges in the South.
She took over the position in September from interim president Dorothy Cowser Yancy, the retired president of Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, and was at the helm of the school when it was hit by a tornado on April 16.
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