Alumni Facts and Demographics

Victor McTeer ’69 is a celebrated civil rights attorney and one of the first African American students to graduate from the college. He has spent his adult life engaged in professional, volunteer and philanthropic efforts to ensure that many more successful black scholars would follow in his footsteps to earn degrees at this and other fine institutions of higher learning.

“I think the parks are places where people can go to heal, to have fun, to spend time with their families, or just to get a break from the outside world.”

“I eventually went to law school — I liked the idea of creating policy and frameworks that help guide society — but I still had hopes that at some point I would get into the music industry. I thought it was a pipe dream.”