News Archives

Jul 13, 2000
  • ECU News Services

Chancellor committee to pursue silent search

The Chancellor Search Committee is getting plenty of inquiries about the opening in the top leadership position at ECU, but don't expect to hear who applies or even meet the...

Jul 06, 2000
  • ECU News Services

Professor wins national advising award

Dr. Sherry Southard, an associate professor of English at East Carolina University, has been named an Outstanding Advisor Winner by the National Academic Advising Association. The association's national awards honor...

Jul 06, 2000
  • ECU News Services

Chancellor search committee to meet with consultant and hold public forum

The Chancellor Search Committee at East Carolina University will hold a public forum and a meeting next week as it continues its work to recruit the next university chief executive....

Jul 03, 2000
  • ECU News Services

Grant will support Special Education program

East Carolina University has received a $1.5 million federal grant to prepare more school teachers to work in the field of special education and in particular with children and young...

Jun 22, 2000
  • ECU News Services

Committee chooses consulting firm

The Chancellor Search Committee at East Carolina University has decided to hire the A.T. Kearney Executive Search firm from Alexandria, Va., to assist in recruiting a new chancellor. Dr. Jan...

Jun 15, 2000
  • ECU News Services

Donation to ECU is groundbreaker

The East Carolina University School of Industry and Technology has a new piece of machinery that students and faculty really "dig." It's a Mini Hydraulic Excavator from Caterpillar Inc. and...

Jun 12, 2000
  • ECU News Services

ECU Professor awarded Fulbright scholarship

If you haven't considered the similarities between eastern North Carolina and Slovakia, you're probably not a Fulbright Scholar; Dr. Mel Markowski, professor of Human Environmental Sciences at East Carolina University,...

Jun 09, 2000
  • ECU News Services

Archaeologist searches for first North Carolinians

An archaeological site near Greenville and beside a little known tributary of the Tar River is producing a hot trail in an East Carolina University researcher's hunt for the first...

Jun 02, 2000
  • ECU News Services

UNC president addresses ECU search committee

Molly Corbett Broad, president of the 16-campus University of North Carolina, told the chancellor search committee at East Carolina University Friday (June 2) that its timetable could give it an...

May 22, 2000
  • ECU News Services

Construction bond will boost local economy

East Carolina University Chancellor Richard Eakin (left) and Pitt Community College President Charles Russell have told city, county and legislative leaders that passage of the higher education construction bond package...