PRIDE AND ACCEPTANCE
Dr. Jesse R. Peel once said he hoped to be remembered as someone who made a difference, that he “tried to do what he could.” Few have made a difference...
Education Archives
ECU earns prestigious community engagement designation
East Carolina University has earned the prestigious 2024 Carnegie Community Engagement Classification from the American Council on Education (ACE) and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. This acknowledgement...
PLANT THE SEED
The East Carolina University fall Class of 2023 graduates turned their tassels Friday morning during a ceremony held in Minges Coliseum in front of family, friends and well-wishers. The class...
Faculty: Dr. Matt Militello
As the Wells Fargo Distinguished Professor in Educational Leadership, Matt Militello has taught many degree-seeking students, but it took a question from one of his own professors to direct him...
GRAD PROFILES: FALL 2023
Life can present surprises. Some in the form of challenges, others as opportunities. For these East Carolina University graduates, the encouragement they found at ECU helped them overcome challenges and...
Positive Influence
Every gift Pat ’67 and Lynn Lane have given to East Carolina University has a central purpose – the students. Their support for ECU students and the institution spans decades and...
Business Pirates hit NYC
A Google search on Pirates and New York City yields numerous results, including a Seattle Times article stating that in New York in 1692, “piracy was a leading economic-development tool...
ECU alumna receives national award recognizing her excellence in teaching
East Carolina University alumna Ainsley VanBuskirk thought she was attending a typical school assembly at Greenville’s Pactolus Global School, where she teaches first grade. However, the assembly was called to...
Faculty honored at annual author, alternative textbook awards
Book topics displayed in the Janice Hardison Faulkner Gallery included family life education, an edited autobiography, teaching challenging topics in the classroom, a Ghana newspaper, economics and Congress. There were...
ECU finance professor offers tips to deflate holiday season costs
It is not quite the night before Christmas, so all through the house everything seems to be stirring. Decorations are beginning to appear, holiday travel plans are being finalized, and...