Franklyn Green Jenifer (born March 26, 1939, in Washington, D.C.) is a former academic administrator, researcher, trustee, and board member of a number of well-known institutions and companies.

Franklyn Jenifer is an alumnus of Howard University,^[1] and received a doctorate in plant virology from the University of Maryland.^[2]

Jenifer was elected to serve on the board of trustees for Fairleigh Dickinson University.^[1] in 2011. He has been re-elected twice, with his current term scheduled to expire in 2020.

He held the role of President of the University of Texas at Dallas (1994–2005), and President of Howard University (1990–1994). He was the first graduate of Howard University to become its head.^[3]

Jenifer was Provost at the Rutgers Newark Campus,^[4] Chancellor of the Massachusetts Board of Regents of Higher Education (1986–1990) and Vice Chancellor of the New Jersey Department of Higher Education (1979–1986).^[5][6]

He has also served as chairman for the National Council on Science and Technology Education for Project 2061 of the American Association for the Advancement of Science^[7] |and has served on the board of directors at Texaco and Chevron.^{[5][8][9][10][11][12]}

• Halpern, Stephen C. (1995), On the Limits of the Law: The Ironic Legacy of Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, p. 391
• Jenifer, Franklyn (16 October 1991), "The Supreme Court must Act to preserve and strengthen historically black colleges", Chronicle of Higher Education, retrieved 4 March 2014
• Bigelow, Barbara C. (1992), Contemporary Black Biography, vol. 2
• Jenifer, Franklyn G. (September 1971), "Studies on the nature and origin of satellite virus and some of its relationships to tobacco necrosis virus. Part i, Number 2, Section 1", Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third Series, Books and Pamphlets Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals Current and Renewal Registrations, vol. 25, Ann Arbor
• Brooks, Thomas (2006), A Wealth of Family: An Adopted Son's International Quest for Heritage, Reunion, and Enrichment, Alpha Multimedia, Inc., p. 43
• Manegold, Catherine S. (24 April 1994), "Amid Criticism, Howard's President Quits", New York Times, retrieved 4 March 2014
• Weisberg, Jacob (10 February 1991), "Franklyn Jenifer : Taking Howard University Into Slum Neighborhoods", Los Angeles Times, retrieved 4 March 2014
• Williams, Juan (20 September 1992), "The Continuing Education of Franklyn Jenifer", The Washington Post
• Benchmarks for Science Literacy American Association for the Advancement of Science, Oxford University Press, 25 November 1993, p. 448

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