The Chronicle of Philanthropy

How Determined Fund-Raising Efforts Are Turning Around a University

Nashville

Four years ago, Hazel Rollins O'Leary had just finished renovating her retirement home in Hilton Head, S.C., when the phone rang. It was a member of the Fisk University Board of Trustees.

Would Ms. O'Leary help find a new president for her alma mater?

"I said, sure, I'd help them,"...

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