JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 Edward Waters University President A. Zachary Faison Jr. announced the death of Dr. Jennifer M. Price, the university\u2019s former vice president for enrollment management and strategic matriculant services, who passed away Tuesday. She served in the role from 2019 to 2025.<\/p>\n
Price joined what was then Edward Waters College when enrollment stood at approximately 900 students. Under her leadership, enrollment grew to nearly 1,300 \u2014 a trajectory that Faison credits as essential to the institution\u2019s elevation from college to university status.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe do not achieve the transformation from Edward Waters College to Edward Waters University without Dr. Price,\u201d Faison said.<\/p>\n
A leader who believed in students first<\/p>\n
Beyond the numbers, Faison said, Price\u2019s most lasting contribution was her investment in the students themselves.<\/p>\n
\u201cDr. Price recruited young people to this university when they were 18 and 19 years old, and then she would not let go of them,\u201d Faison said. \u201cShe saw what they could become before they could see it themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n
Four students who earned degrees at Edward Waters during Price\u2019s tenure now work in enrollment management at the university. Te\u2019Anna Austin serves as executive director of enrollment management. Rwiti Choudhury serves as assistant director of financial aid. Moshonda Durosier serves as senior admissions recruiter, and Cortland Faison serves as admissions recruiter. Each holds a master\u2019s degree from Edward Waters University. Durosier holds two.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is the REAL work,\u201d Faison wrote. \u201cEverything else is just a number.\u201d<\/p>\n
A career devoted to HBCUs<\/p>\n
Price began her career as a student worker in an admissions office before earning her master\u2019s degree at Bowie State University, a historically Black college and university. She dedicated the culminating years of her professional life to HBCUs and the students they serve.<\/p>\n
Most recently, she served as vice president of enrollment management at Clinton College in Rock Hill, South Carolina, before her time at Edward Waters. She described her professional philosophy simply: There is no I, only we.<\/p>\n
As the longest-serving member of Faison\u2019s executive cabinet, Price spent nearly seven years at Edward Waters. Faison described her as someone who handled the demands of working alongside him with rare skill.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnyone who has worked closely with me understands the intensity I bring to this office, and Dr. Price handled it with a deftness I have rarely encountered in anyone \u2014 knowing when to absorb it, when to push back, and when to let it pass,\u201d Faison said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy the time she left Edward Waters, we did not end a telephone call without telling each other that we loved one another. I did not know then how much I would come to treasure that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Faison extended condolences on behalf of the entire Edward Waters University community to Price\u2019s family.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe love you, Dr. Price. Rest in paradise,\u201d Faison wrote, closing his statement with a scripture from John 17:4: \u201cI have brought you glory on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
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