North Carolina Central University has appointed Stephen W. Fusi as chief brand officer after a competitive, national search. He began his new role at NCCU on May 9, 2022.
To the cheers of their families and friends, some 450 graduate and law students at NCCU received master’s and Juris Doctor degrees on Saturday morning, May 7, 2022.
Chancellor Akinleye hailed the Spring 2022 graduates as a “distinct class,” noting that they “matriculated and graduated at a time like no other – when a global pandemic interrupted and uprooted our lives.”
The NCCU Student Government Association has approached the university’s administration with the request to consider renaming the McLean Residence Hall.
The PNC Foundation is awarding more than $2 million to NCCU and four other HBCUs in North Carolina to establish the PNC North Carolina HBCU Initiative.
NCCU is among seven institutions of higher learning and 12 community groups that have been awarded a $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
NCCU alumna Hellena Huntley Tidwell and her sons, William DeVane Tidwell and Damion Lamar Tidwell, made the largest single contribution to create the university’s first named academic program.
NCCU is one of four recipients of the inaugural Getty Images Photo Archive Grant for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), which aims to preserve and amplify the visual history of HBCUs.
Environmental Earth and Geospatial Sciences assistant professor Christopher Zarzar, Ph.D., has received a three-year, $250,000 water quality research grant in collaboration with two other N.C. universities.