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ECSU Business, Accounting and Sport Management Programs Receive International Accreditation
Robert Kelly-Goss February 4, 2021
ECSU dean of the School of Education and Business, Dr. Joy Smith, says the sport management program had its accreditation reaffirmed, making it the only accredited HBCU sport management program in North Carolina. Elizabeth City State University’s Department of Business,...

ECSU Receives $3.6 Million in CARES Act Funding
Robert Kelly-Goss February 2, 2021
Elizabeth City State University has received more than $3.6 million from the U.S. Department of Education in CARES Act funds for institutional and student aid. The recent award is in addition to $5 million in CARES Act funding received last...


ECSU Receives First-Year Student Success Program Grant
Robert Kelly-Goss January 27, 2021
Dr. Melinda J. Anderson, Interim Associate Chancellor for Student Success First year students at Elizabeth City State University will reap the benefits of a statewide program designed to give them support with academic development. A $75,600 grant will help ECSU...

First Citizens Bank $36K Gift Helps Launch ECSU’s Spring 2021 Community Connections Series Season
Robert Kelly-Goss January 26, 2021
First Citizens Bank has gifted Elizabeth City State University $36,000 to help fund, in part, the Community Connections: Performance and Lecture Series launched last spring. The first event, featuring best-selling author and poet Nikki Giovanni, will take place in February.  According to...


SECU Foundation Renews $100,000 Funding for Student Internship Program
Robert Kelly-Goss January 13, 2021
Students Nyla Harris, left, and Jimmy Chambers Jr. are two ECSU students who have been accepted into an internship program funded by a State Employee Credit Union grant. Twenty Elizabeth City State University students will have an opportunity to apply...

ECSU Receives Grant to Support Research into Mutation of COVID-19 Virus
Robert Kelly-Goss January 8, 2021
Dr. Hirendrana Banerjee is the principal investigator on a grant to research the mutation of the COVID-19 virus. Elizabeth City State University has received a $75,000 grant from the UNC System to support ongoing research into the mutation of the...


ECSU Signs COVID-19 Vaccine Mutual Use Agreement with Sentara Albemarle Medical Center, Albemarle Regional Health Services
Robert Kelly-Goss January 6, 2021
ECSU’s ultra-low freezer to store COVID-19 vaccines is on loan to Sentara Albemarle Medical Center thanks to a Mutual Use Agreement. Elizabeth City State University is partnering with Sentara Albemarle Regional Medical Center and Albemarle Regional Health Services in the...

ECSU Receives $15 Million Gift from MacKenzie Scott
Robert Kelly-Goss December 15, 2020
Elizabeth City State University announces a historic $15 million gift from MacKenzie Scott. American novelist and venture philanthropist, MacKenzie Scott’s gift marks the largest gift from a single donor in the university’s nearly 130-year history. “I would like to thank Ms. Scott for her...


ECSU Receives $450,000 Grant for Renewable Energy Research
Robert Kelly-Goss December 8, 2020
A $450,000 grant will fund Dr. Bijandra Kumar’s ongoing renewable energy research. Elizabeth City State University is one of three Historically Black Colleges and Universities to receive major funding from the Nuclear Security Administration for research in the development of...

ECSU Holds 171st Commencement Ceremony Saturday, Dec. 12
Robert Kelly-Goss December 7, 2020
On Saturday, Dec. 12, Elizabeth City State University will hold its 171st commencement ceremony for the Class of 2020, at the Mickey L. Burnim Fine Arts Center in the Floyd L. Robinson Auditorium.  Due to the on-going challenge of the...