Morris Brown names educator businessman as president

ATLANTA - Charles Taylor, a veteran educator and businessman, has been named as the new president of Morris Brown College. <br> <br> The school, part of the Atlanta University Center, has a history of financial problems. As recently as 1993 the college was $10 million in debt. <br> <br> It is on probation with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools because of concerns over its financial accounting system and whether enough faculty hold advanced degrees in their subjects. <br> <br> Taylor, 58, replaces Dolores Cross, who resigned in February. Two of Atlanta&#39;s other historically black colleges have also named new presidents recently Walter Broadnax at Clark Atlanta University and Beverly Tatum at Spelman College. <br> <br> Taylor was president of Wilberforce University in Ohio from 1976 to 1984. He left to take a management job with British Petroleum Co. and in recent years has run an executive search firm focusing on historically black colleges and universities. <br> <br> He helped place Tatum at Spelman, and he recruited former Fulton County Commission Chairman Michael Lomax to be president at Dillard University in New Orleans.