He retired from academia as the Reynolds-Faunt Professor of Journalism at the University of South Carolina (USC) in 2001.
In 2011, he endowed the Ronald T. and Gayla D. Farrar Award for Media in Civil Rights History at USC.
[1][2] He graduated from the University of Arkansas, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in business in 1957.
[1] He became the Reynolds-Faunt Professor of Journalism at the University of South Carolina in 1986,[1] and he retired from academia in 2001.
In 2011, he endowed the Ronald T. and Gayla D. Farrar Award for Media in Civil Rights History at USC.