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UNC System Gallup Poll Highlights Value of ECSU Education
Robert Kelly-Goss May 21, 2019
The University of North Carolina System has released the results of a far-reaching alumni survey that provides a first-of-its-kind look at how graduates from North Carolina’s public universities fare after graduation, and Elizabeth City State University alumni have said they’re...

A Photographic Look Back at ECSU’s Spring 2019 Semester
Robert Kelly-Goss May 17, 2019
The spring 2019 semester began with a new chancellor, Dr. Karrie Dixon, and ended with her presiding over the commencement ceremony of 146 graduates. On Saturday, May 11, the Vaughan Center was jammed packed with students, family, friends, and ECSU...


ECSU’s Signature Aviation Program Preps for New Campus Home
Robert Kelly-Goss May 16, 2019
Elizabeth City State University’s aviation program has been on the move and growing for some time now, but this summer things will change more than ever. The only four-year aviation degree program in North Carolina is about to move to...

ECSU 2019 Summer Programs Offer Academic Enrichment
Robert Kelly-Goss May 16, 2019
Middle and high school students learn about the scientific principles behind hot air balloons during an aviation summer program in 2018. A number of ECSU summer programs are still accepting applications.   Summer is near and that means Elizabeth City...


ECSU’s Vice Chancellor Josh Lassiter Completes Prestigious Leadership North Carolina Program
Robert Kelly-Goss May 15, 2019
On Thursday, May 9 Leadership North Carolina held a graduation ceremony for its 26th class.  Among the 56 civic and community leaders from across the state celebrating their completion of this prestigious program was Elizabeth City State University’s Vice Chancellor...

2018 Aviation Graduate William Nelson Named Currituck County Airport Manager
Robert Kelly-Goss May 15, 2019
When aviation science major, William Nelson, graduated from Elizabeth City State University in December 2018, he was that graduating class’s Bearer of the Mace, with an eye on his aviation career. Now, in May 2019, Nelson has taken a big...


Four ECSU Graduates Commissioned as U.S. Army Officers
Robert Kelly-Goss May 10, 2019
Pictured are, left to right, Maj. Gen. (retired) Sanford E. Holman, 2nd Lt. Dara Drury, 2nd Lt. Isaiah Graves, 2nd. Lt. Vance Maxey, 2nd Lt. Brandon Sparrow, and ECSU Chancellor Karrie Dixon. The four graduating seniors were commissioned into the...

It’s Official: ECSU’s Robert Boone Named UNC System Presidential Scholar
Robert Kelly-Goss May 9, 2019
It’s official. Robert Boone is a University of North Carolina System Presidential Scholar. The UNC System Office in Chapel Hill announced this week that the graduating senior will serve as a Presidential Scholar in the office of System Interim President...


Britney Spence is the Spring 2019 Bearer of the Mace
Robert Kelly-Goss May 9, 2019
When graduating senior Britney Spence received her blazer for the Chancellor’s Distinguished Emblem Award during Honors Convocation last month, she thought there was a chance she could be named Elizabeth City State University’s spring 2019 Bearer of the Mace. But...

Six Student Teachers Carry On ECSU’s Educator Tradition
Robert Kelly-Goss May 8, 2019
Student teachers, clockwise, Britney Spence, Carlie Spear, Drew Baccus Tarranova, Sharon Nixon, Amy Williams, and Jennifer Boyd meet with their professor, Dr. Saundra Copeland, center, to prepare for graduation.   Six new elementary teachers are ready to help shape the...