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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

Addressing rural disparities at ECU

August 1, 2018 by Higher Ed Works 1 Comment

GREENVILLE – It’s no secret that rural North Carolina lags the state’s urban areas in education, health and economic development. But East Carolina University Chancellor Cecil Staton aims to do something about it. In what he calls the signature initiative of his chancellorship so far, Staton has created an interdisciplinary Rural Prosperity Initiative to combine… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2018, ECU, Nursing, Rural Routes

ECU: Leader in online education

June 13, 2018 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

GREENVILLE – If there’s one institution in the UNC System that’s led the way in online education, it’s East Carolina University. “We are the leader in distance learning in the state of North Carolina,” Dr. Regis Gilman, Executive Director of Continuing Studies at ECU, says in the accompanying video.  “We’ve been doing it for a… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2018, ECU, Excellence, Online

ECU Dentistry: Keeping your smile

May 18, 2018 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

GREENVILLE – In serving rural patients, Dr. Greg Chadwick sees the painful choices people without access to good dental care sometimes must make. East Carolina University’s School of Dental Medicine aims to supply more dentists to rural and underserved parts of the state. In the accompanying video, Dean Chadwick shares the case of a teenage… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2018, ECU, EdTalks, Excellence, Rural Routes

ECU: More dentists for rural NC

May 9, 2018 by Higher Ed Works 1 Comment

GREENVILLE – East Carolina University’s School of Dental Medicine is hailed as a national model for supplying much-needed dentists to rural communities, Chancellor Cecil Staton says. Open only since 2011,1 the dental school has opened eight regional centers in rural communities across the state – extending even as far as Sylva in far western North Carolina…. READ MORE

Filed Under: 2018, ECU, Excellence, Rural Routes

ECU’s late-night professor

April 20, 2018 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

GREENVILLE – One night last October, a group of students gathered in the library at East Carolina University to prepare for an accounting exam the next day – but they hit a roadblock with one problem. So they decided to email their professor, Dr. Douglas Schneider, at 10:46 p.m. Little did they expect what happened… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2018, ECU, Excellence

ECU: Putting doctors into rural NC

April 18, 2018 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

GREENVILLE – ECU Chancellor Cecil Staton is proud that ECU’s Brody School of Medicine puts more primary-care doctors into rural and underserved areas than any other medical school in the state – and more than all but one other school in the nation. “If North Carolina didn’t have ECU, it’d be in a world of… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2018, ECU, Excellence, Rural Routes

ECU: ‘America’s next great national university’

April 13, 2018 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

GREENVILLE – In part because of the region East Carolina University serves, Chancellor Cecil Staton makes a bold claim. “We have been bold at ECU to say that we are America’s next great national university,” Staton says in the accompanying video.  “We really want to become a national model in all the ways that we… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2018, ECU, Excellence, Rural Routes

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