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ECSU Awarded More Than $4 Million in Competitive Grants
Robert Kelly-Goss July 19, 2018
The ECSU Sponsored Programs office is responsible for working with faculty to pursue and write grants. The staff is, left to right, Michelle Moore, Pernell Bartlett, Dr. Cyntrica Eaton, Annemarie Delgado, Anthony Smith, Vandalyn Ray, and John Raynor.   Over...

Gary Brown has a Passion for Student Affairs
Robert Kelly-Goss July 18, 2018
Gary Brown is already at work engaging Elizabeth City State University students. Since his first day, July 9, the new Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs has been zeroing in on what it will take to make certain the student experience...


Dr. Coray Davis is New ECSU Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
Robert Kelly-Goss July 18, 2018
Elizabeth City State University is the perfect setting for Dr. Coray Davis, the new Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs. He says the ECSU campus, and its intimate and family-oriented environment, reflects his time as an undergraduate studying mechanical engineering...

Mass Casualty Drill Tests ECSU Emergency Management Preparedness
Robert Kelly-Goss July 17, 2018
Early in the morning Tuesday, July 17, the parking lot of the Fine Arts Center on the Elizabeth City State University campus was teeming with police officers. Law enforcement agents from Elizabeth City, and the Pasquotank County Sherriff’s Department joined...


Thurgood Marshall College Fund President Tours ECSU
Robert Kelly-Goss July 16, 2018
President of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, Dr. Harry Williams, left, is joined by the Fund’s vice president of government relations, Sean Burns, center, and ECSU Interim Chancellor Dr. Karrie Dixon in the drone lab Monday, July 16. Williams and...

ECSU Doubles Fundraising, Shatters University Records
ECSU Author July 13, 2018
Students work the phones during the 2018 ECSU Day of Giving campaign in June. ECSU has doubled its fundraising efforts, according to Vice Chancellor for University Advancement, Dr. John Michael Lee, Jr.   Elizabeth City State University is on the...


ECSU, Roanoke-Chowan Community College Partnering on Elementary Education Program
Robert Kelly-Goss July 13, 2018
Elizabeth City State University provost, Dr. Van Newkirk, standing, discusses some of the programs ECSU offers during a community college partnership meeting held on the campus of Roanoke-Chowan Community College in June.   As community college partnerships with Elizabeth City...

Viking Profile: Chorn Poyner is Ready to Energize Students
Robert Kelly-Goss July 12, 2018
Chorn Poyner set a goal a while back, putting his sights on becoming president of Elizabeth City State University’s Student Government Association. He realized that goal this year, and now the business administration major is ready to get to work....


ECSU Alumna, Trustee Establishes $100,000 Endowment
Robert Kelly-Goss July 11, 2018
Elizabeth City State University trustee Dr. Stephanie Johnson, 2nd from the left, presented a check for $100,000 at the June 12 ECSU Board of Trustees meeting with Interim Chancellor Dr. Karrie Dixon, left, center, and left to right, ECSU Foundation...

Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs, New Positions Named
Robert Kelly-Goss June 28, 2018
Gary Brown has been named ECSU’s new Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs.   Elizabeth City State University has announced new promotions and is welcoming new staff members, including the new Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs, Gary Brown. Brown is leaving...