DURHAM – People are sometimes surprised to learn NC Central University is home to two biotechnology research institutes, Chancellor Johnson Akinleye says.

But that’s not all.  In the accompanying videos, Akinleye outlines a broad array of course offerings at NCCU:

• A nation-leading program in Jazz Studies, as well as programs that provide more teachers in Durham County schools and nurses in local hospitals than any other school:

• Plans for a new state-of-the-art School of Business.  Akinleye highlights the school’s programs in entrepreneurship, hospitality and tourism management, an executive MBA, finance and accounting.

“The one that I am most excited about is the entrepreneurship program,” he says.  “That’s a new program for us – we are beginning to encourage our students to go into business for themselves.”

• And a new Intellectual Property Law Institute in the NCCU School of Law, because minorities are under-represented in the lucrative field of intellectual property, including patent, copyright and trademark law.

“It’s a new program,” Akinleye says.  “The goal is to begin to recruit and train and graduate minority patent lawyers.”