’What Makes a Great University’ is a look at what makes North Carolina’s public universities great and what it will take to make them greater. In coming months, the series will visit each of our public universities and explore them in depth..
- ECU: Leader in online education
GREENVILLE – If there’s one institution in the UNC System that’s led the way in online education, it’s East Carolina University. “We are the leader in distance learning in the state ...Read more - ECU Dentistry: Keeping your smileGREENVILLE – In serving rural patients, Dr. Greg Chadwick sees the painful choices people without access to good dental care sometimes must make. East Carolina University’s School of Dental Medicine aims ...Read more
- ECU: More dentists for rural NCGREENVILLE – East Carolina University’s School of Dental Medicine is hailed as a national model for supplying much-needed dentists to rural communities, Chancellor Cecil Staton says. Open only since 2011,1 the dental ...Read more
- Farm Boy’s Journey: “I am the result of education”PEMBROKE – “I am the result of education,” UNC Pembroke Chancellor Robin Gary Cummings says in the accompanying video. “And that’s why I’m so committed to the power and the potential ...Read more
- UNC Pembroke: An economic driver for Southeast NCPEMBROKE – What makes the University of North Carolina at Pembroke a great university? Chancellor Robin Gary Cummings points to both its past and its future. In the accompanying video, Cummings ...Read more
- UNC Pembroke and NC Promise: $500 a semester tuitionPEMBROKE – By reducing tuition to $500 a semester for in-state students at UNC Pembroke, Chancellor Robin Gary Cummings thinks state legislators are trying to abide by a promise in ...Read more
- ECU’s late-night professorGREENVILLE – One night last October, a group of students gathered in the library at East Carolina University to prepare for an accounting exam the next day – but they ...Read more
- ECU: Putting doctors into rural NCGREENVILLE – ECU Chancellor Cecil Staton is proud that ECU’s Brody School of Medicine puts more primary-care doctors into rural and underserved areas than any other medical school in the ...Read more
- ECU: ‘America’s next great national university’GREENVILLE – In part because of the region East Carolina University serves, Chancellor Cecil Staton makes a bold claim. “We have been bold at ECU to say that we are America’s ...Read more
- ECU: ‘No greater return on investment’GREENVILLE – East Carolina University Chancellor Cecil Staton isn’t shy about saying ECU serves rural and underserved parts of North Carolina. “I like to say, if North Carolina didn’t have ECU, ...Read more
