Poverty simulation builds understanding, empathy
More than 50 ECU undergraduate students participated in a poverty simulation Feb. 8 with the goal of increasing their understanding of the day-to-day realities faced by people with low incomes....
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Staton steps down, Gerlach named interim chancellor
Following Chancellor Cecil Staton’s March announcement that he was leaving his position at East Carolina University, Dan Gerlach, who for more than a decade has led the Golden LEAF Foundation,...
Pirates Abroad
You could call it a form of distance education when Ashlyn Biggers recently took a semester’s worth of classes in art, Italian, literature and art history—distance education in that she took...
Expecting excellence
When Chancellor Cecil Staton takes his daily walk across campus to the Starbucks truck, he sees a lot of reasons to make East Carolina “America’s next great national university,” as...