Community and Government Affairs

Each academic year the Office of the Chancellor sponsors a number of events that provide an opportunity for the public to experience world-renown speakers on their hometown regional university campus.

The events include: The Chancellor's Distinguished Speakers Series, the Chancellor's Reading Club, Veteran's Day Celebration, the Black History Month Kick-Off, and Women's History Month.
 
All of the speaker presentations are free and open to the public. 

For more information contact: edickens@uncfsu.edu or 910-672-2101.

2011-2012 Campus Speakers   Sponsored by the Office of the Chancellor

The Chancellor's Reading Club Selection Author Presentation

Eugene Robinson
Fall Convocation Speaker

September 15, 2011
2:00 p.m.
Seabrook Auditorium

Eugene Robinson uses his twice-weekly column in The Washington Post to pick Americansociety apart and then put it back together again in unexpected and revelatory new ways. To do this job of demolition and reassembly, Robinson relies on a large and varied tool kit:energy, curiosity, elegant writing and the wide-ranging experience of a life that took him from childhood in the segregated South—on what they called the “colored” side of the tracks—to the heights of American Journalism.

Chancellor's Distinguished Speakers Series/City of Fayetteville Heroes Homecoming

Sharon Raynor
November 9, 2011
7:00 p.m.
Seabrook Auditorium

Sharon D. Raynor is an Associate Professor of English and the Mott University Distinguished Professor at Johnson C. Smith University. She is also the recipient of the Alphonse Fletcher, Sr. Fellowship through the Fletcher Foundation and the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. 

Chancellor's Distinguished Speakers Series

Thomas "Danny" Boston
November 17, 2011
6:00 p.m.
Seabrook Auditorium

Dr. Thomas “Danny” Boston is a Professor of Economics in the School of Economics at Georgia Tech. He is also CEO of EuQuant, which is an economic consulting and research company. A native of Jacksonville, Florida, he received the BS Degree from West Virginia State University and the Masters and PhD Degrees in Economics from Cornell University. Graduating as a commissioned officer from WVSU, he attained the rank of Capt. in the U.S. Army and was awarded the Purple Heart. His appointment to the Georgia Tech faculty began in 1985.


Angela Davis
January 17, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Seabrook Auditorium

Through her activism and scholarship over the last decades, Angela Davis has been deeply involved in our nation’s quest for social justice.  Her work as an educator – both at the university level and in the larger public sphere – has always emphasized the importance of building communities of struggle for economic, racial, and gender justice.

Black History Month

Charles E. Jones
February 7, 2012
2:00 p.m.
Seabrook Auditorium

Fayetteville State University alumnus Charles E. Jones is a Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Cincinnati. He was the founding Chair of the Department of African-American Studies at Georgia State University. Jones earned a Ph.D. degree in political science at Washington State University.  He is a former Congressional Black Caucus Graduate Fellow and a Fulbright Hayes Fellow.  He has served two terms as President of the National Council for Black Studies (NCBS).

Women's History Month

Kim D. Saunders
March 13, 2012
2:00 p.m.
Seabrook Auditorium

Ms. Kim D. Saunders is the President and CEO of Mechanics and Farmers Bank and its parent company, M&F Bancorp, Inc.  Before coming to M&F in February 2007, Ms. Saunders was President and CEO at Consolidated Bank and Trust Company.  Ms. Saunders was the second female President and CEO in CB&T’s history, a distinction she holds at M&F Bank as well.