Community and Government Affairs

Chancellor's Distinguished Speaker Series 2012-1013

Financial Literacy

George C. Fraser

Date: September 18, 2012
Time: 6:00p.m.
Location: Seabrook Auditorium
Tickets available September 4th (Students & Public) 

George C. Fraser is Chairman and CEO of FraserNet, Inc. A company he founded some 25 years ago with the vision to lead a global networking movement that brings together diverse human resources to increase opportunities for people of African descent. He is considered by many to be a new voice for African Americans and one of the foremost authorities on economic development, networking and building effective relationships. Read More Video     

 

 

 

 

Democratic Process

Reverend Dr. Al Sharpton

Date: September 29, 2012
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Location: Seabrook Auditorium
Tickets available August 20th (Students) and September 4th (Public)

Reverend Al Sharpton is the founder and President of the National Action Network (NAN), a not-for-profit civil rights organization headquartered in Harlem, New York, with over 47 Chapters nationwide. As one of the nation's most-renowned civil rights leaders, Rev. Sharpton has been praised by President Barack Obama as "the voice of the voiceless and a champion for the downtrodden," and by former President George W. Bush who said that "Al cares just as much as I care about making sure every child learns to read, write, add and subtract."  Read More 

 

 

       

Fall Convocation

John Silvanus Wilson Jr.

Date: October 4, 2012
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Location: Seabrook Auditorium

John Silvanus Wilson, Jr. serves as the executive director of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), where the challenge is to ensure that HBCUs are a significant force in helping the nation to reach the goal set by President Barack Obama of having the highest proportion of college graduates in the world by the year 2020.  Before working with the White House Initiative, Wilson was an associate professor of higher education in the Graduate School of Education, and an executive dean at the George Washington University.  Read More

 

 

 

 

Military

General Janet C. Wolfenbarger

Date: November 5, 2012
Time: 6:00p.m.
Location: Seabrook Auditorium
Tickets available October 2nd (Students & Public)

Gen. Janet C. Wolfenbarger serves as Commander, Air Force Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. The command's 83,000 people manage $60 billion annually in research, development, test and evaluation while providing the acquisition management services and logistics support required to develop, procure and sustain Air Force weapon systems.  General Wolfenbarger was commissioned in 1980 as a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, and began her career in acquisition as an engineer at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. She has held a variety of assignments at headquarters Electronic Security Command and Air Force Systems Command. Read More 

 

 

 

 

 

Martin Luther King Jr.

Bob Zellner

Date: January 22, 2013
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Location: Seabrook Auditorium
Tickets available January 2nd (Students & Public)

Dr. Bob Zellner was born on April 5, 1939 and raised in south Alabama, the second of five boys born to Methodist minister James Abraham Zellner and school teacher Ruby Hardy Zellner. A 1957 graduation speaker at Murphy High School in Mobile, he received a BA from Huntingdon College, Montgomery, Alabama in 1961 with highest honors in Sociology and Psychology. After teaching at Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee, Zellner was the first white southerner to serve as field secretary for SNCC ("Snick"), the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.  Read More  

 

 

 

 

Black History Month

Dr. Cornel West

Date: February 9, 2013
Time: 1:00 p.m.
Location: Seabrook Auditorium
Tickets available January 7th (Students) January 14th (Public)

Cornel West is a prominent and provocative democratic intellectual. He is the Class of 1943 University Professor at Princeton University. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard in three years and obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy at Princeton.  He has taught at Union Theological Seminary, Yale, Harvard and the University of Paris.  He has written 20 books and has edited 13.  He is best known for his classics Race Matters and Democracy Matters, and his new memoir, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud. He appears frequently on the Bill Maher Show, Colbert Report, CNN and C-Span as well as on his dear Brother, Tavis Smiley’s PBS TV Show. He is also co-host of the popular radio show “Smiley & West” heard on PRI around the country. Read More  

  

 

 

 

Women's History Month

Hilda Pinnix-Ragland

Date: March 12, 2013
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Location: Seabrook Auditorium
Tickets available February 19th (Students & Public)

Hilda Pinnix-Ragland is Vice President-Corporate Public Affairs for Duke Energy, the nation’s largest integrated utility headquartered in N.C. In that role, Hilda has responsibility for working with officials at the federal, state and local levels to develop responsible public policy that protects consumers and businesses. She also serves as Vice Chair of Progress Energy’s Corporate Diversity Council.She received a bachelor’s degree in accounting from N.C. A&T State University in 1977 (graduating magna cum laude) and a master’s degree in business administration from Duke University in 1986. Hilda has completed the Harvard University Kennedy School of Public Policy Executive Leadership Program.  Read More