Earl G. Yarbrough

Earl Glenn Yarbrough Sr. (born 1946) was a former president of the Savannah State University from May 30, 2007 until May 8, 2011.

On May 30, 2007, Yarbrough became the President of Savannah State University. On April 19, 2011, the Board of Regents for the University System of Georgia voted not renew Yarbrough’s annual contract as president of the university.

On December 1, 2006, Yarbrough was named president-elect of Knoxville College, however the institution was unable to pay his salary and that of his staff, so the board terminated his contract so he could assume the presidency at Savannah State.

Yarbrough served as a full professor of Industrial Education and Technology and Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs at Virginia State University before being named provost and vice president for Academic and Student Affairs from 1998 until 2003.

Yarbrough’s first academic position was at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma in 1976. In 1984, he moved to the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff as Chair of the Industrial Technology Program. In 1986 he was appointed founding dean of the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University School of Technology, a post he held until 1998 when he moved to Virginia State University.

Born 1946, he is a native of Wichita, Kansas. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in industrial education from Wichita State University in 1969. He earned a Master of Arts degree in industrial studies from California State University, Los Angeles in 1974, and a Doctorate degree in industrial education from Iowa State University (ISU) in 1976.