While many people associate summer camp with tents or cabins, hikes in the woods, telling stories around a fire and roasting marshmallows, North Carolina Central University offers camps outside the traditional.
In late September, Assistant Professor Kristi Johnson, Ed.D., will head to the Blue Ridge Mountains to create a dance film. Johnson will gain nine days at Trillium Arts, an artist’s retreat on 22 rural acres.
The PNC Foundation is awarding more than $2 million to NCCU and four other HBCUs in North Carolina to establish the PNC North Carolina HBCU Initiative.
NCCU is among seven institutions of higher learning and 12 community groups that have been awarded a $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
NCCU alumna Hellena Huntley Tidwell and her sons, William DeVane Tidwell and Damion Lamar Tidwell, made the largest single contribution to create the university’s first named academic program.
NCCU is one of four recipients of the inaugural Getty Images Photo Archive Grant for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), which aims to preserve and amplify the visual history of HBCUs.
Environmental Earth and Geospatial Sciences assistant professor Christopher Zarzar, Ph.D., has received a three-year, $250,000 water quality research grant in collaboration with two other N.C. universities.
In partnership with NC State’s College of Education, NCCU's School of Education will enhance an educator mentoring initiative to support future teachers of color and bilingual teachers.