Knoxville College Appoints New President With a Goal of Regaining Accreditation

Knoxville College, a historically Black institution of higher education, has appointed Rotesha Harris as its president. Her goal, the college wrote in a news release, is to regain the accreditation it lost decades ago. Former Knoxville College President Leonard Adams served as interim president in 2021 before taking on the presidency in 2022. Adams resigned in June. Harris has been serving as interim president. Knoxville College is an unaccredited institution in the Mechanicsville neighborhood, near downtown Knoxville.