A Quarterly Newsletter for Faculty, Staff, and Friends of Fayetteville State University Vol. IV. Issue Three. Apr/May/June 2010, Print Edition
Charlotte Mayor Delivers Spring Commencement Address The mayor of North Carolina’s largest city addressed the graduates of the 143rd Spring Commencement of Fayetteville State University (FSU). The Honorable Anthony Foxx delivered the commencement speech to approximately 500 graduates on May 8, 2010 at 9 a.m. in the Crown Coliseum. The public was invited.
FSU Names New Director of Alumni Affairs Michaela N. Brown has been selected as the new Director of Alumni Affairs at Fayetteville State University (FSU). Brown comes to FSU from Methodist University where she served as Associate Director for the Annual Fund and Alumni Affairs. At FSU, Brown will report to Mary Bailey, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Major Gifts, and will work with other members of the Division of Institutional Advancement. The division is lead by Vice Chancellor Arthur Affleck. “One of the most important tasks we have is to build life-long, mutually beneficial relationships with our alumni,” Affleck said. “We are pleased to have recruited Michaela Brown to lead our Alumni Affairs effort at this important time. She brings the energy, the ideas, and the experience to build on the successes we have had in Alumni Affairs. These qualifications will allow us to better serve all of our alumni and friends.” Brown’s major responsibility will be to increase FSU’s success in raising the university’s public visibility to its internal and external constituencies, particularly among FSU’s alumni. Other responsibilities will include overseeing planning, managing, and evaluating Alumni Affairs programs; cultivating relationships for the university; soliciting alumni gift donors; developing, training, and maintaining alumni volunteers, and coordinating certain fund raising and grant proposals designed to assist FSU alumni and future alumni. Brown earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communications from East Carolina University. In addition to her work at Methodist University, she served three years as Alumni Relations Coordinator at North Carolina Central University in Durham.
Foxx began his political career in 2005 with his election to City Council as an at-large representative and served two terms before being elected Mayor in 2009. As a council member, he chaired the Transportation Committee and was a member of the Economic Development and Planning. He was the council’s representative to the Charlotte Mecklenburg Development Corporation and the Metropolitan Planning Organization. Foxx has been a member of the Mecklenburg County Education Budget Advisory Committee since 2002. He has served on the boards of the Mecklenburg County Bar Foundation, Community School of the Arts, YMCA Camp Thunderbird, Trust for Public Land (Carolinas Region), and Focus on Future leaders. He has been recognized as one of the Charlotte Business Journals “40 under 40” and is recipient of the North Carolina Bar Association’s Citizen Lawyer Award. Mayor Foxx received his Bachelor’s degree in history from Davidson College and his Law degree from New York University School of Law. He is a member of the Mecklenburg County Bar and a graduate of its Leadership Institute. Prior to joining Hunton & Williams law firm, he served as a law clerk for the United States Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, a trial attorney for the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice, and a staff counsel to the United States House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary. FSU Chancellor James A. Anderson, the 11th chief executive officer, presided. Chancellor Anderson came to FSU from the University of Albany in New York. He began his duties as Chancellor of the state’s second-oldest public institution on June 9, 2008. Before coming to FSU, Chancellor Anderson served as the University of Albany’s Vice President for Student Success and Vice Provost for Institutional Assessment and Diversity. He also was a professor in the department of psychology.