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About Frederick S. Humphries
- For the FBI agent Frederick W.
- Humphries II, see Petraeus_scandalFrederick Stephen Humphries (born December 26, 1935 in Apalachicola, Florida) is an American academic administrator and chemistry professor.
- He has been a Regent Professor at the Florida A&M University College of Law since 2003.
- Humphries is President Emeritus of Tennessee State University (1974 to 1985), and is President Emeritus of Florida A&M University (1985 to 2001).
- He served as President and CEO of the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education from 2001 to 2003.
- Florida A&M University conferred the President Emeritus title upon Humphries on Friday, December 11, 2009. Under his leadership Florida A&M University enrollment grew from 5,100 in 1985 to 9,876 in 1993.
- By the 1998-1999 school year, enrollment had reached 11,828 students and by 2001 Florida A&M had an enrollment of 12,316. He has a bachelor's degree in physical chemistry from Florida A&M University where he graduated magna cum laude in 1957.
- He received a Ph.D.
- in physical chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh in 1964 where he was the first African American to receive a Ph.D in this discipline from the University.
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