X-Employees/Not News Services Archives

Mar 24, 2011
  • Mary Schulken

Live … From Iraq … It’s Monday Night!

Director of Public Affairs ECU News Services The technology balked, yet the learning went on in East Carolina University’s global classroom. Some 70 ECU students who stayed up late for...

Feb 24, 2011
  • Mary Schulken

Trustees: ECU must prepare for cuts

GREENVILLE, N.C. — East Carolina University needs to prepare for stressful changes as the state legislature eyes a budget that sharply shrinks government, members of the board of trustees said...

Feb 24, 2011
  • Karen Shugart

Paul Rogat Loeb: ‘You can’t be afraid to take on the challenges’

GREENVILLE, N.C. —   In his tours of college campuses, author and activist Paul Rogat Loeb has observed that many students lack an understanding of how social change occurs. They...

Feb 17, 2011
  • Mary Schulken

Perdue pledges support for dental school during visit Feb. 17

GREENVILLE, N.C.   —   N.C. Gov. Beverly Perdue said funding to open East Carolina University's School of Dental Medicine is an urgent need that should stay on track despite the...

Feb 09, 2011
  • Karen Shugart

Raising Cain, Alan Abel-style

GREENVILLE, N.C.   —   Before Stephen Colbert and Sacha Baron Cohen were even born, Alan Abel was straightfacedly urging TV newscasters that Americans needed to clothe their animals for morality’s...

Feb 02, 2011
  • Mary Schulken

Text of Chancellor Ballard’s State of the University speech

GREENVILLE   —   State of the University East Carolina University Former ECU Board of Trustees Chairman Bob Greczyn greeted those attending the second State of the University address by Chancellor...

Feb 02, 2011
  • Mary Schulken

Ballard: ECU will survive tough times

GREENVILLE, N.C.  —   College and division cuts of 9 to 12 percent along with tuition hikes may be necessary to make up state budget shortfalls, East Carolina University Chancellor...

Jan 31, 2011
  • Mary Schulken

Special Coverage: The State of the University speech Feb. 2

GREENVILLE, N.C.   —   SPECIAL COVERAGE: Follow the State of the University speech Feb. 2 with live ECU News Service coverage via Twitter and Facebook. Jeannine Hutson and Karen Shugart...

Jan 28, 2011
  • Karen Shugart

Campus Kitchen transitions to student leadership

GREENVILLE   (Jan. 28, 2011)   —   In little less than a year, East Carolina University’s Campus Kitchen has saved more than 1,300 pounds of food from being wasted and...

Nov 12, 2010
  • Karen Shugart

ECU student killed in Afghanistan honored, remembered

GREENVILLE — Vice President Joe Biden cried as the father of U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. David J. Smith explained how his son, an East Carolina University student, was killed from...