The University of North Carolina Board of Governors has announced its pick to be the new chancellor of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. The board on Friday unanimously voted to appoint James Martin as the new head of North Carolina A&T.
RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, the country’s largest historically Black university, has a new chancellor after nearly nine months of searching.
The University of North Carolina Board of Governors unanimously voted to name James Martin as the next chancellor of North Carolina A&T during a special meeting Friday.is the vice chancellor of STEM research and innovation at the University of Pittsburgh, where he previously served as dean of the university’s engineering school.
Martin, who was UNC System President Peter Hans’ nominee, has worked primarily in civil engineering, a profession Hans said will help Martin with “leading a public institution through an unquiet era.” Among the many challenges chancellors may face, Hans said maintaining “public confidence in an era of rising skepticism and polarization” would be one task for Martin to tackle.
“Doctor Martin recognizes all of those challenges, and he isn’t deterred by any of them,” Hans said before the board vote.When colleges close, students are left scrambling. Some never go back to schoolWeekend of graduation ceremonies begins at California universities without major war protestsFriday’s vote marks the end of another chancellor search in the state’s public university system within the last month.— two other HBCUs located in Winston-Salem and Durham, respectively.
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