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Another Interim Appointment for Becton
Kimberly Luse named Chief of Staff and Community Liaison
9/11 Observance Honors NCCU Alum On Sept. 11, the 12th anniversary of his death, members of the NCCU community remembered NCCU alumnus Harry Glenn in a ceremony held at the Administration Circle next to the statue of founder James E. Shepard. Glenn’s office was on the 97th floor of one of the World Trade Center’s twin towers. A business major who graduated in 1983, he was an assistant vice president of software management at Marsh & McLennan, a large insurance brokerage and risk-management firm. “More than 3,000 daughters, sons, mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, family members and friends lost their lives in this world’s most brazen act of terrorism,” Chancellor Debra Saunders-White said. She spoke of Glenn as a man from Harlem who came to NCCU to seek out a dream. “Harry had gone to work as he normally did, and on that day, God had a different plan,” Saunders-White said. She noted that after the tragedy, the New York Times quot-
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ed Glenn’s father, Roosevelt. “A lot of people didn't believe he could come out of Harlem and do as well as he did,” his father said. “But Harry had a goal that he set for himself, and he followed it. I don't think he had any idea how many people were proud of him.” “Twelve years later,” Saunders-White said, “our nation’s strength and resolve has not wavered, but grown stronger since that fateful day.” Taps played as Michael Page, NCCU’s Campus Ministry chaplain, and Valita Holmes looked on. They were both Glenn’s classmates. He was quiet and easygoing, they said. Determined to succeed in school, he spent more time studying than socializing. “We can continue to lift him up and his name, and remember him as a Fallen Eagle,” Page said. Glenn is among the thousands remembered in the National Sept. 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan.
Dr. Kimberly A. Luse has been appointed to the new role of chief of staff and community partnership liaison. She will oversee all community relations and Title III funding for NCCU. In announcing the appointment, Dr. Debra Saunders-White, NCCU chancellor, said, “Strengthening the connection between NCCU, Durham and the Research Triangle, as well as collaborating and engaging with community, agency and business partners is a major focus for obtaining Eagle Excellence, or E-squared. Formalizing this role in my administration signals my commitment to stewardship of the university’s place in this vibrant region.” Luse comes to NCCU from the University of Cincinnati, where she was an assistant professor in the Advanced Medical Imaging Program. She previously worked as cooperative education coordinator at Cincinnati State Technical and Community College, executive assistant to the president for special projects at Northern Kentucky University, and national academic dean for Radiologic Technology Studies at Remington College.
ven before Charles L. Becton completed his 10-month term as interim chancellor at NCCU, UNC President Tom Ross assigned him to another task. Becton, the retired judge and legal scholar who stepped down from his NCCU post on June 1 as Dr. Debra Saunders-White arrived to begin work as permanent chancellor, was appointed by Ross to be interim chancellor at Elizabeth City State University. Ross announced the appointment in late May, and Becton started on July 1. Becton
succeeded
Willie Gilchrist, who retired from Elizabeth City after nearly seven years as chancellor. In announcing Becton’s selection, Ross said: “Judge Charles Becton is known and respected throughout the state of North Carolina for his sound judgment and ability to get things done. As he has demonstrated yet again during his tenure as interim chancellor at NCCU, he tackles every challenge handed to him with full commitment, great passion, and absolute integrity. I can think of no one who is better qualified to lead ECSU during this time of transition, and I am grateful
“Judge Charles Becton is known and respected throughout the state of North Carolina for his sound judgment and ability to get things done.“
that he has accepted this new assignment.”
Born in Morehead City and raised in Ayden, Becton earned
his undergraduate degree at Howard University and holds law
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degrees from Duke University (J.D.) and the University of Virginia School of Law (LL.M.). He began his legal career in 1969 with the New York-based NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and joined the Charlotte law firm of Chambers Stein Ferguson & Lanning the
chandler, wilder named interim vice chancellors Dr. Kenneth W. Chandler has been appointed interim vice chancellor for Institutional Advancement. Dr. Chandler joined NCCU in February 2012 in the position of associate vice chancellor for Institutional Advancement. Before coming to NCCU, he was director of corporate and foundation relations at Winston-Salem State University.
following year. He soon helped establish the firm’s Chapel Hill office, where he practiced until being appointed to the N.C. Court of Appeals in 1981. Becton remained on the appellate bench until 1990, returning to private practice with the Raleigh firm of Fuller, Becton, Slifkin & Bell.
Becton also has taught and lectured at trial advocacy skills institutes across the U.S. and beyond,
and prior to becoming interim chancellor at NCCU, was the John Scott Cansler Lecturer at the UNCChapel Hill School of Law and a visiting professor at the Duke University School of Law. In 2010, he served as the Charles Hamilton Houston Chaired Professor of Law at the NCCU School of Law.
march anniversary I On the 50th anniversary of the Aug. 28, 1963, March on Washington in which Martin Luther King Jr. delivered
lawson retires I Robert Lawson, NCCU’s straight-
his famed “I Have a Dream” speech, NCCU commemorated the occasion with a ceremonial ringing of the Shepard Bell. Students, faculty,
talking, straight-shooting veteran photographer, retired
alumni and staff gathered at the bell, which rang for meals, classes and sports victories in the university’s early days. Participants included
from the university on May 1. He earned two degrees from
Chancellor Saunders-White and alumnus and veteran legislator H.M. Michaux Jr. (B.A. 1952, J.D. 1965), a friend of Dr. King’s and a partici-
the university and served as its photographer — both paid
pant in the 1963 march, and Tiffany Adams, a senior, who attended the anniversary march in Washington on August 24.
and gratis — since his student days in the early 1960s.
Dr. jennifer a. wilder has been named interim vice chancellor for Student Affairs. Dr. Wilder previously served as interim senior associate vice chancellor for student affairs and enrollment management. Previously, she was director of residential life. Dr. Wilder began at NCCU in 2003. The appointments were announced by Dr. Debra Saunders-White, chancellor. Search committees have been formed to identify candidates to fill both positions on a permanent basis. Fall 2013 NCCU NOW
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