ECU News Services Archives

Oct 16, 1996
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ECU Faculty Senate meets

The Faculty Senate gave its approval on Tuesday to a new and expanded calendar for ECU and also approved a listing of “features” for a system that reviews the performance...

Oct 02, 1996
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Chalkboards for the 21st century

A click of the computer keyboard fills the movie screen with words and images from Elizabeth Rylan’s computer. “Falling Water,” says the title on the screen. The presentation is about...

Sep 25, 1996
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ECU holds first Civil War Symposium

The First Annual East Carolina University Civil War Symposium, Oct. 11 - 13, will focus attention on eastern North Carolina’s involvement in the War Between States. To be held on...

Sep 19, 1996
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ECU names writer and teacher as distinguished professor

Dr. Peter Makuck, a 20-year veteran of the East Carolina University English Department and the author of seven books, has been named a distinguished professor by ECU's College of Arts...

Aug 26, 1996
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Philosophy scholar serves as Whichard chair

A noted philosophy scholar from Vanderbilt University, Dr. John F. Post, has joined East Carolina University as the Whichard Distinguished Chair of the Humanities for the 1996-97 academic year. As...

Aug 23, 1996
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ECU joins Carteret and Craven in degree program partnership

East Carolina University and the community colleges in Carteret and Craven Counties has opened an office in Morehead City as part of a new program to help students complete their...

Aug 23, 1996
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Campus changes evident as academic year begins

As teams of construction crews continued their last-minute grind and polish on projects representing ECU's most prolific building boom in two decades, classes started on Aug. 21. Earlier in the...

Aug 01, 1996
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ECU’s Child Development Lab among nation’s top programs

East Carolina University’s Child Development Laboratory, a pre-school program for youngsters, has received its second, three-year accreditation from the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). The NAEYC...

Jul 15, 1996
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Henry Peel named interim dean of education

Dr. Henry A. Peel, an associate dean of the School of Education at East Carolina University, has been named interim dean of the school, effective Aug. 1. He will succeed...

Jul 15, 1996
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ECU Trustees elect officers and meet Brazilian hoops team

Robert A. Ward of Greensboro was elected to a second one-year term as chairman of the East Carolina University Board of Trustees at the July 11 meeting that included a...