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Mar 10, 1998
  • ECU News Services

ECU grad picked for Alumni Relations Post

Joseph Phillip Horne, former vice president for institutional advancement at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Va., has joined East Carolina University as associate vice chancellor for alumni relations. Horne...

Feb 27, 1998
  • ECU News Services

ECU’S EastNet opens remote sites in Beaufort and Craven counties

EastNet, the Internet access service that East Carolina University provides to educators, celebrates its third anniversary on March 1. As part of the celebration, EastNet has announced the opening of...

Jan 22, 1998
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Poet Laureate to deliver commencement address

Fred D. Chappell, who was recently named poet laureate of North Carolina, will deliver the spring commencement address at East Carolina University on May 16. More than 2,000 degree candidates...

Jan 21, 1998
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Professor writes book for educators

Allan A. Glatthorn, a professor in the East Carolina University School of Education, and three of his colleagues, have published a new book about planning and teaching in the schools....

Dec 19, 1997
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Fall enrollment figures released

Fall semester enrollment at East Carolina University rose to 17,479 this year, up from 17,445 a year ago, according to preliminary figures. It was the first increase after three yeas...

Nov 25, 1997
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ECU becomes technology partner to the National Defense University

A unique, on-line master's degree program at East Carolina University has produced a cooperative project that will attract military, civil service and industry leaders as ECU graduate students and will...

Nov 25, 1997
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Geologist to give fall commencement address

Dr. Stanley R. Riggs, an award-winning geologist and member of the Department of Geology faculty, has been chosen to deliver the address at the fall commencement on Dec. 13. About...

Nov 24, 1997
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Chancellor wins first honor society award

Dr. Richard R. Eakin, chancellor of East Carolina University, has received the Ambassador of Excellence Award from Sigma Beta Delta, a national honor society. The award recognizes individuals from business,...

Nov 07, 1997
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ECU converts to one card system

Beginning in January, all East Carolina University students, faculty and staff members will have new identification cards as the campus moves to a unified system of "smart" cards, not just...

Nov 05, 1997
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Eakin picked for higher ed post

Dr. Richard Eakin, chancellor of East Carolina University in Greenville, has been elected president of the North Carolina Association of Colleges and Universities. Eakin will serve a one-year term as...