Education Archives

Feb 18, 2019

College of Arts and Sciences honors students at ECU Excels reception

East Carolina University’s Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences recognized its high-achieving freshmen and first-year transfer students at the college’s annual ECU Excels reception Feb. 15 in the new...

Yueqi Li and Zongfu Li from Shaanxi Normal University in China visit with students at ECU Community.
Feb 08, 2019
  • Jamie Smith

CULTURAL IMMERSION

Student teachers from Shaanxi Normal University (SNNU) in Xi’an, China traveled more than 7,500 miles to spend four weeks at East Carolina University to learn more about the American education...

Feb 05, 2019
  • ECU News Services

DR. BENJAMIN BLAISDELL

ECU’s Dr. Benjamin Blaisdell‘s research and outreach center on working collaboratively with school teachers and administrators to overcome racial inequity. This work centers the knowledge and expertise of people of...

Feb 05, 2019
  • ECU News Services

CHANGING LIVES THROUGH RESEARCH

East Carolina University researchers and inventors will be recognized Tuesday evening, Feb. 5, at the university’s third annual Research and Scholarship Awards. The awards will honor ECU faculty with the...

East Carolina University senior Meghan Lower talks with members of the Pitt Pirates Robotics Club during a club meeting. Lower serves as a junior mentor for the club’s marketing and safety team. The Pitt Pirates Robotics Club competes internationally against other teams in annual robotics competitions. (Photos by Matt Smith)
Jan 16, 2019
  • Matt Smith

PASSION FOR ROBOTICS

In a football field house full of chatter East Carolina University senior Meghan Lower gathers a group of high school students at local C.M. Eppes Middle School. While the room...

Jan 09, 2019

ECU graduate students collect sunshine baskets for Pender County students

Ten East Carolina University graduate students have helped Pender County elementary and middle school students start the new year with much needed school supplies. Lauren Patterson, a special education teacher...

Nov 21, 2018

ECU’s College of Education inducts 35; raises $40K for scholarships

Thirty-five educators and education advocates have been inducted in the East Carolina University College of Education’s Educators Hall of Fame. The 20th annual ceremony was held Oct. 27 in the...

Dr. Crystal Chambers, left, meets with doctoral student Hank Bowen to discuss his research project. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Oct 11, 2018
  • Crystal Baity

CARNEGIE FELLOW

An East Carolina University faculty member who has received a 2018 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship will study how students from rural areas across the United States make decisions about college. Dr....

East Carolina University faculty members Len Annetta, from left, Matt Militello, Charity Cayton and College of Education Dean Grant Hayes recently announced that the college secured a five-year, $9.8 million grant to study the effects of leadership in K-12 school systems. (Photo by Matt Smith)
Oct 10, 2018
  • Matt Smith

RESEARCH EMPOWERS PRINCIPALS

A group of East Carolina University researchers studying the effects of school leadership has secured a five-year, $9.7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The study is led...

Sep 06, 2018

State releases data on lab school performance

On Wednesday, the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction released the first year of data on student achievement at UNC System Laboratory Schools at Western Carolina University and East Carolina...