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Budget highlights – and lowlights

September 22, 2023 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

RALEIGH (September 22, 2023) – To win Medicaid expansion he has sought since he was elected, Gov. Roy Cooper agreed to make it contingent on passage of the state budget. So Republican legislators packed a whole lot of policy into the 1,400-page 2023-25 budget for Cooper to swallow. Here are some highlights – and lowlights. … READ MORE

Filed Under: 2023, Appalachian State, Budget, ECU, Elizabeth City State University, Fayetteville State University, North Carolina A&T, UNC Asheville, UNC Greensboro, UNC Pembroke, Winston-Salem State University

“Eastern North Carolina needs us”: The economic impact of ECU

September 7, 2023 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

By Leslie Boney GREENVILLE (September 7, 2023) – When it first opened in 1909, the new, two-year East Carolina Teachers Training School had a critical, if modest, goal: Train teachers for the classrooms of Eastern North Carolina. But then-former Governor Thomas Jordan Jarvis sensed even then that the tiny school might grow: “We can never… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2023, Economic Impact, ECU

“Sticker girl”: The impact of ECU entrepreneurs

September 7, 2023 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

By Leslie Boney  AYDEN (September 7, 2023) – Taylor Walden didn’t come to East Carolina University expecting to become an entrepreneur. Her family wanted her to go into health care, maybe nursing, and come back home to Winston-Salem after graduation. But early in her freshman year, people in her dorm started asking her to hand-letter… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2023, Economic Impact, ECU

“We need to find a solution”: The impact of ECU research

September 7, 2023 by Higher Ed Works 1 Comment

By Leslie Boney GREENVILLE (September 7, 2023) – Dr. Rukiyah Van Dross-Anderson has made a discovery that could stop skin cancer in its tracks. The molecule she is developing in her lab at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University appears to be able to stop some melanoma cells from growing and to… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2023, Economic Impact, ECU, Research

“Lot of purple and gold here”: The impact of ECU’s rural docs

September 7, 2023 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

By Leslie Boney KENANSVILLE (September 7, 2023) – You could say Jon Kornegay was born to be a rural doctor. His father was a physician in a small town in Duplin County in Eastern North Carolina. His mother was a graduate of East Carolina University’s first nurse practitioner class in 1976. But it was his… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2023, Economic Impact, ECU, Rural

Voter411 fills a void of info about Eastern NC candidates

September 7, 2023 by Higher Ed Works 2 Comments

By Cindy Elmore, Ph.D. GREENVILLE (September 7, 2023) – Every fall semester, I put Election Day on my syllabus calendar. Students always eagerly hope this means class is cancelled that day. It isn’t. Instead – just as I don’t want busy students to forget their upcoming quiz and assignment dates – I’m hoping they won’t… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2023, ECU, Vote

HISTORIC: Brinkleys, Lanes commit $30M to ECU scholarships

June 1, 2023 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

GREENVILLE (May 17, 2023) – Two couples who turned educations at East Carolina University into successful careers have together committed $30 million to ECU’s premier merit scholarships, marking the largest combined commitment in the university’s history. The scholarship program formerly known as EC Scholars will now be known as Brinkley-Lane Scholars, said ECU Chancellor Philip… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2023, ECU

Cindy Elmore: A class of ping-pong balls

December 22, 2021 by Higher Ed Works 1 Comment

By Cindy Elmore GREENVILLE (December 17, 2021) – I remember looking with horror at my county’s vaccination rate in August when we were about to go back to teaching in-person classes at East Carolina University. Forty-three percent. Surely the rate on my campus will be better than that, I thought.  It was, but not by… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2021, Crisis Response, ECU

New beginnings for the Class of 2021

May 19, 2021 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

To commence means to begin. And after weathering a worldwide pandemic, commencement for the Class of 2021 indeed felt like a new beginning for thousands of UNC System graduates. AT UNC-CHAPEL HILL, Dr. Anthony Fauci and UNC alum Kizzmekia Corbett spoke to graduates and received honorary degrees.  Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2021, ECU, NCCU, NCSU, UNC Asheville, UNC Chapel Hill, UNC System

Philip Rogers named next ECU Chancellor

December 17, 2020 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

CHAPEL HILL (Dec. 17, 2020) – The UNC Board of Governors chose Greenville native Philip G. Rogers today as the next chancellor at East Carolina University. “Dr. Rogers is a driven leader who brings energy and vitality to ECU,” said UNC System President Peter Hans.  “He has broad national higher education experience and deep local… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2020, ECU, Leadership

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