Peter Hans, president of the UNC System, said Dixon is a “leader who can cast a wide net for talent and support and can forge alliances to accomplish great things.”
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North Carolina Central University Chancellor Dr. Johnson O. Akinleye has been appointed to the NCAA Division I Presidential Forum. His term begins immediately and runs through Aug. 31, 2024.
NCCU has a limited supply of all three COVID-19 vaccines: Moderna and Pfizer (two-dose) and Johnson & Johnson (one-dose). Appointments and walk-in visits are available for NCCU students, faculty and staff.
NCCU Textiles and Apparel Program is getting a $100,000 boost from clothier The Gap and its partner, Icon 360, a non-profit subsidiary of Harlem’s Fashion Row.
NCCU Department of Music student Jawan Davidson was awarded a $10,000 scholarship by the Recording Academy’s Black Music Collective and Amazon Music’s Your Future Is Now initiative.
NCCU assistant professor and director of dance Kristi Vincent Johnson, Ed.D., has been named a North Carolina Campus Compact Engaged Faculty Scholar and is the first scholar representing an HBCU.
Johnny Green Jr., ’99, has been named president and general manager of CBS News and Television Stations’ local businesses in the New York City news market.
NCCU Board of Trustees has added three new members to serve four-year terms following appointments by the University of North Carolina Board of Governors and the North Carolina General Assembly.
Equality in education was never taken for granted by African Americans in Eastern North Carolina. An award-winning article explores how a Black man became school board chair in 1969 in Northampton County.
NCCU formally broke ground June 30, 2021, on a 76,608-square-foot School of Business building that will double as a visually striking gateway to the university campus.