Vincent served as the forty-eighth Grand Sire Archon of Sigma Pi Phi fraternity.

[10] From 1999 to 2003, Vincent was vice provost for academic affairs and campus diversity and law professor at the Louisiana State University.

[7] These included Little Forest Medical Center of Akron v. Ohio Civil Rights Commission[12] and The State, Ex Rel.

[14] He received the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law Distinguished Service Award in 2012.

[15] In 2018, Vincent was accused of plagiarizing several passages in the literature review section of his dissertation by an anonymous source claiming to be a Hobart and William Smith Colleges faculty member.

[17] However, based on a review conducted by Penn's Graduate School of Education faculty members, Vincent was given the opportunity to make revisions to the literature review portion of his dissertation, under Penn Graduate School of Education faculty supervision, which were completed to their satisfaction and meant his degree now stands.