and commerce, and individual unit courses in the industrial branch of the department.
In June 1932 Charles H. Wesley was elected to replace Gilbert H. Jones as president. However, a month into his presidency he resigned for personal reasons. He would later serve as WU's president during World War II. Ultimately sociologist Richard R. Wright, Jr., the first African American to earn a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, was appointed president in September 1932. Wright was the longtime editor of The Christian Recorder and an AME Church pastor in Philadelphia who had little previous experience as an educator or administrator. He had previously worked in education as an instructor in Hebrew at Payne Theological Seminary for the 1902-1903 academic year.
Like his predecessors, Wesley was occupied with the problem of accreditation. In 1934 Arthur J. Klein led a team of educators from Ohio State University and Muskingum College to survey the college and identify places for improvement. Curriculum and faculty committees …
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