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Donyai Moffatt receives Chancellor’s Student Leadership Award.
Kesha Williams May 6, 2015
Kesha WilliamsMay 06, 2015 Donyai Moffatt, a senior from Kinston, N.C., majoring in aviation science is the recipient of the Chancellor’s Student Leadership Award. The award is reserved for a junior or senior who demonstrates leadership qualities, is an ambassador...

Three earn the Chancellor’s Distinguished Emblem Award
Kesha Williams April 28, 2015
Kesha WilliamsApril 28, 2015 Three students earned ECSU’s top academic awards and received certificates at the annual Honors Convocation on April 23 in the Moore Hall auditorium. The Chancellor’s Distinguished Emblem Award is reserved for three seniors who maintain a...


Governor Pat McCrory is the speaker for ECSU’s 160th commencement ceremony
Kesha Williams April 20, 2015
Kesha WilliamsApril 20, 2015 Chancellor Stacey Franklin Jones is pleased to announce Governor Pat McCrory as Elizabeth City State University’s 160th commencement keynote speaker. The commencement ceremony is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. on May 9 in Roebuck Stadium....

DERRICK JOHNSON NAMED ECSU’S DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS 1
April Emory April 10, 2015
April Emory, Sports Information OfficerApril 10, 2015 Athletics’ Top Administrator Will Begin Tenure on May 18th ELIZABETH CITY, NC- After completing a nationwide competitive search facilitated by a committee consisting of alumni, staff, conference representation and other members of the...


Derrick Johnson named ECSU’s Director of Athletics
April Emory April 10, 2015
April EmoryApril 10, 2015 After completing a nationwide competitive search facilitated by a committee consisting of alumni, staff, conference representation and other members of the community, Chancellor Stacey Franklin Jones announces Mr. Derrick Johnson as ECSU’s next Athletic Director. &quotMr....

UNC Board of Governors Announces 2015 Awards for Teaching Excellence
Kesha Williams April 1, 2015
Kesha WilliamsApril 01, 2015 The Board of Governors of the 17-campus University North Carolina has selected some of the University’s most outstanding faculty to receive its 2015 Awards for Excellence in Teaching. The 17 recipients, representing an array of academic...


State Attorney General warns students of the dangers of debt
Kesha Williams April 1, 2015
Kesha WilliamsApril 01, 2015 On March 26, NC Attorney General Roy Cooper brought the College Cash &amp Credit Tour to Elizabeth City State University to help students become smarter consumers. Cooper encouraged students to educate themselves about student loans, credit...

ECSU alumnus, Coach Larry Johnson, is the great investor
Kesha Williams April 1, 2015
Kesha WilliamsApril 01, 2015 Thirty-eight years have passed but Coach Larry Johnson still enjoys the view from the sideline. His vantage point allows him to see some of college football’s best athletes tossing, catching, rushing, defending and kicking with the...


WRVS-FM celebrates 29th anniversary
Kesha Williams March 16, 2015
Kesha WilliamsMarch 16, 2015 WRVS-FM 89.9 celebrates its 29th anniversary this month. The university’s radio station began broadcasting in 1986 with a general manager and four staff– a public affairs director, a news/sports director, a traffic director/gospel announcer. As was...

Parsell Murphy wins Nationwide Tuition Challenge
Kesha Williams March 16, 2015
Kesha WilliamsMarch 16, 2015 Parsell Murphy Jr., a sophomore from Roseboro, North Carolina, recently won a $5,000 scholarship from Nationwide during the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association’s CIAA- Nationwide Tuition Challenge competition. Murphy applied online for the contest which provides scholarship...