Hampton University Names New President

Hampton University’s board announced Wednesday that it has chosen a retired Army general and business leader to be the school’s 13th president. Darrell K. Williams, 61, an executive at the Reston, Va.-based IT firm Leidos, will take the helm at the historically Black university in southeast Virginia on July 1. He succeeds William R. Harvey, who will end a 44-year tenure as president of Hampton at the end of June.