Wake Forest University is a private research university in Winston-Salem,North Carolina. Founded in 1834,the university received its name from its original location in Wake Forest,north of Raleigh,North Carolina. The Reynolda Campus,the university's main campus,has been located north of downtown Winston-Salem since the university moved there in 1956. The Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist medical campus has two locations,the older one located near the Ardmore neighborhood in central Winston-Salem,and the newer campus at Wake Forest Innovation Quarter downtown. The university also occupies lab space at Biotech Plaza at Innovation Quarter,and at the Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials. The university's Graduate School of Management maintains a presence on the main campus in Winston-Salem and in Charlotte,North Carolina.
North Carolina Central University,a state-supported liberal arts institution,is a public,historically black university in Durham,North Carolina. Founded by Dr. James E. Shepard in affiliation with the Chautauqua movement in 1909,it was supported by private funds from both Northern and Southern philanthropists. It was made part of the state system in 1923,when it first received state funding and was renamed as Durham State Normal School. It added graduate classes in arts and sciences and professional schools in law and library science in the late 1930s and 1940s.
Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) is a historically black public university in Winston-Salem,North Carolina. It is part of the University of North Carolina.
The University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) is an arts school in Winston-Salem,North Carolina. It grants high school,undergraduate,and graduate degrees. Founded in 1963 as the North Carolina School of the Arts by then-Governor Terry Sanford,it was the first public arts conservatory in the United States. The school owns and operates the Stevens Center in Downtown Winston-Salem and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
A provost is the senior academic administrator at many institutions of higher education in the United States and Canada and the equivalent of a deputy vice-chancellor at some institutions in the United Kingdom,Ireland,and Australia. Additionally,the heads of certain colleges of universities in the UK and Ireland are called provosts;the term is,used in this sense,the equivalent of a Master or Principal at other colleges.
Claude Mason Steele is a social psychologist and emeritus professor at Stanford University,where he is the I. James Quillen Endowed Dean,Emeritus at the Stanford Graduate School of Education,and Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences,Emeritus.
Jamshed Bharucha is an Indian-American cognitive neuroscientist who has served in leadership roles in higher education. He is the Founding Vice Chancellor of Sai University,Chennai,and is a member of the Board of Advisors of India's International Movement to Unite Nations (I.I.M.U.N.).
Dr. James H. Ammons is an American educator,who is the Chancellor of Southern University at New Orleans. He served as president of Florida A&M University (FAMU) from July 2,2007,until his resignation took effect on July 16,2012. He is a native Floridian who grew up in the heart of Florida's citrus belt. He graduated from Winter Haven High School in 1970 and entered Florida A&M University on the Thirteen College Curriculum Program during the fall semester of 1970. Dr. Ammons was appointed Chancellor at Southern University at New Orleans January 8,2021.
Francis M. "Frank" Lazarus,Ph.D. is a retired educator and higher education administrator. He served as the president of the University of Dallas in Irving,Texas,from 2004 until 2009,when he was honored by the board of trustees with the title president emeritus.
Charlie Nelms is an educator and administrator who served as the tenth chancellor of North Carolina Central University in Durham,North Carolina. On July 26,2012,after completing a five-year commitment to serve at the institution,Dr. Nelms announced his retirement,effective August 6,2012. He currently is a contributing writer to The Huffington Post on educational issues and has founded Destination Graduation,a non-profit organization focused on increasing retention and graduation rates at the nation's historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs).
Bernadette Gray-Little is a retired academic administrator most recently serving as the 17th chancellor of the University of Kansas,where she was the first African-American and female to serve as the chancellor. She oversaw the university's main campus in Lawrence,its medical center campuses in Kansas City,Salina and Wichita,the Edwards Campus in Overland Park,and other facilities around Kansas. She replaced chancellor Robert Hemenway in August 2009,and retired in June 2017.
The North Carolina Central University School of Law is the law school associated with North Carolina Central University. The school is fully accredited by the American Bar Association (ABA) and the North Carolina State Bar Council,and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS). According to NC Central's official 2018 ABA-required disclosures,37.9% of the Class of 2018 obtained full-time,long-term,JD-required employment nine months after graduation.
Cleon Franklin Thompson Jr. is an American educator best known for holding office as the seventh chancellor of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and the eighth chancellor of Winston-Salem State University.
Harold L. Martin Sr. Ph.D. is an American engineer,educator,former chancellor of Winston-Salem State and current chancellor of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. He is the first alumnus in the history of North Carolina A&T to hold the position of Chancellor. Under his leadership,N.C. A&T has become the nation's largest historically black university (HBCU),its top-ranked public HBCU and North Carolina's third most productive public research university. It has also increased its standing as a land-grant institution and doctoral research university.
Deborah A. Prentice is a scholar of psychology and a university administrator. She serves as provost at Princeton University and Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs. In September 2022,she was announced as the candidate for Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.
Sheri Everts is an American academic and educator serving as the chancellor of Appalachian State University in North Carolina.
Cynthia Gail Baum is an American clinical psychologist and academic administrator serving as provost and vice president for academic affairs at Thomas Edison State University. She was the president of Walden University and the chancellor of Argosy University.
Felecia Diane McInnis Nave is an American chemical engineer and academic administrator. She is the 20th President of Alcorn State University and the first female to serve in the position.
Johnson O. Akinleye is the twelfth chancellor of North Carolina Central University. He was installed as chancellor of the university on June 26,2017.
Brenda A. Allen is an American psychologist,educator,and academic administrator who has served as the 14th president of Lincoln University,a historically black university in Oxford,Pennsylvania,since July 2017. She is the first woman to serve as Lincoln University's president. Allen has prioritized strengthening Lincoln's academic quality and campus infrastructure.
