Kesha Williams
April 09, 2009
On April 4, the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education presented the 2009 NAFEO Distinguished Alumni Awards to alumni from the nation’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities. The award recipients from ECSU included: Dr. Steven Gilchrist, class of 1999 Mr. Elston Howell, class of 1988 Dr. Kim Luckes, class of 1979 Dr. Gary N. Harvey, class of 1972 Dr. Linda Hayden, a professor in the ECSU Mathematics and Computer Science Department and the director of the Center of Excellence in Remote Sensing Education and Research, was the recipient of the faculty award. NAFEO recognized several honorees from the nation’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities during the 40th Anniversary Distinguished Alumni Awards Luncheon. The recipients were nominated by their alma maters for distinguished contributions in their professions, their communities, our nation, or the world. The Signature Distinguished Alumni Awards Luncheon was held on April 4 at the Renaissance Concourse Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia. This event was a highlight of the National Dialogue on Blacks in Higher Education from April 1-4, 2009. NAFEO was founded 1969 to provide an international voice for the nation’s HBCUs to place and maintain the issue of equal opportunity in higher education on the national agenda to advocate policies, programs and practices designed to preserve and enhance HBCUs and to increase the active participation of blacks at every level in the formulation and implementation of policies and programs in American higher education. For more information on NAFEO or the conference, see http://www.nafeo.org/community/index.php.
