by Josh Moon
Mongomery Advertiser
Gwendolyn Boyd began her stint as Alabama State University’s first female president on Monday morning with a warm welcome.
Students, staff and faculty lined the entryway into ASU’s Councill Hall, where Boyd’s new office is located, to welcome the new president with applause and balloons. Boyd stopped, shook hands and chatted briefly with a number of people on her way in.
She also told the crowd that Monday marked “a new day at ASU.”
“We will continue to move this university forward in new and exciting ways,” Boyd said. “I’m excited about doing this job. I’m excited about where we can go together.”
Boyd, who didn’t take questions from the media, said her goal is to make ASU’s students “great citizens of the world.”
Not coincidentally, Boyd’s first day coincides with the start of ASU’s Founder’s Week, which honors the university’s formation in 1867.
