University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Chancellor Robert Jones, the 1st African American in the role, has led the school throughout COVID.
He was the son of a sharecropper who experienced racism while growing up in Georgia. Jones went on to become a crop scientist and earned a doctorate. He credits a number of people for putting him on the road to success, starting with his parents."They were very, very committed that their children would have an education so that their lives could be better than the ones they had to live as sharecroppers," he said.In a downstate newspaper, he wrote about being Black in America.
"Particularly when you turn and realize it's being leveled over the hood of a pickup truck and being aimed at you just because you were a young Black man," he said. Jones has written that as he has witnessed the experiences of other Black Americans he's thought,"But for the grace of God, go I."During one of his last in-person appearances in Chicago before the pandemic, at the City Club, Jones said that leading a large university is one of the most complex jobs today. Months later, he had to quickly pivot to keep students and faculty safe during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"In the course of about 12 days we flipped our university from face-to-face to virtual, and we did it extremely well. That kind of perspective and the role of virtual education, I think, in the overall mix of how we deliver the educational experience is going to permanently change higher education for the future," he said.
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