Dr. Darius L. Kirk
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Dr. Darius L. Kirk
@dariuskirk
I am a constructivist leader who loves God (GPhiD) and willing to do whatever it takes to empower lives around me for the better. Phrozen as Phi10sopher1906!!!
Tulsa, OK Katılım Şubat 2009
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Well fam DoubleDigit Doc is back in the ER. Seems like I have developed an infection from my kidney stone removal.
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Happy Birthday to ME ‼️🍰🎊 ♉️ I am GRATEFUL for another year & the wonderful friends & family I have.. TIME TO PARTY 🍾 #happybirthday #birthdayboy #taurus #partytime
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DC is such a beautiful city. I love it here. But if I would’ve moved here back in 14’ I wouldn’t be the man I am today 😂
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Aging like fine wine… or maybe just expensive juice 🍷 🤣🤣 Happy Birthday to me .
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I got the JOB!!!!😭😭🙏🏽🙏🏽💯💯
Thank you all for your support!!!😭🙏🏽🙏🏽
Damian⚜️@codenamedraco
Going for a job interview today, wish me well guys.🤲🏽
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At 42 years old, while serving as a sitting university president, I made a decision that many questioned.
I went back to school.
And yesterday, I successfully defended my capstone dissertation and have officially earned the Doctor of Education in Higher Education Policy and Leadership from @VanderbiltU.
So next month I'm set to have my second professional doctorate officially conferred in Nashville.
This degree represents resilience.
From a young Black boy raised in East Atlanta where discipline, faith, and education were non-negotiable…
To the UNSINKABLE @AlbanyStateUniv, where my confidence was shaped and my commitment to black excellence was forged in the fire of SW Georgia …..
To the @UGASchoolofLaw where my resolve to define my own destiny was tested like never before …
To earning membership to the State Bar of Georgia and becoming a prosecutor…
To senior leadership roles across multiple HBCUs…
Each step sharpened my perspective on leadership, accountability, and institutional transformation. That preparation now lives in my daily work as President & CEO of Florida's FIRST HBCU @ewctigers.
Since 2018, we have elevated EWU from college to university status, achieved @NCAADII membership, expanded academic programs, strengthened enrollment, secured millions in capital improvements, reaffirmed SACSCOC accreditation with no recommendations, and nearly tripled our endowment.
We have also led through crisis.
A global pandemic.
Multiple bomb threats.
And in August 2023, a racist domestic terrorist attack in the shadow of our campus.
In that moment, I questioned everything. Leadership, in moments like that, compresses your world. But after reflection, I understood something clearly: Sharpening my leadership capacity was not a distraction from the mission. It was an investment in it.
So I stayed.
Not because I had time. But because the work demanded that I become better.
At @vupeabody, I studied leadership under pressure, organizational change, and first-generation student success.
I did not study theory for theory’s sake.
I studied to refine and bridge scholarship to practice. This doctorate represents sustained discipline under conditions that would have legitimately justified my stepping away.
So what does all this mean?
It means refusing to stagnate.
It means modeling that learning never stops—even when you are President.
On May 8th, I'll walk across that stage on the picturesque Vandy lawn. And then as I’ve done countless times before I'll be on a red-eye that same evening back to Jacksonville.
And then on May 9th, I will be present—fully present—to preside and celebrate the inimitable EWU Class of 2026.
Because this is not culmination.
It is calibration.
And the work continues...
LET’S GET IT! 💪🏾💯🙌🏾
#FinishEdD #HigherEdLeadership #HigherEdPolicy #VanderbiltU 🎓 #EmergingEminence #ForTheCulture #HBCUMade #GodDid 🙏🏾
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Thanking God for 46 years on this earth! Happy Birthday to me 🥰🥳❤️
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