It is a tremendous accomplishment for our faculty, staff and students.
Today is a day of celebration for the entire ECU family.
It is truly the beginning of a new era for the university, and we are delighted that the Board of Governors has taken this step. It will mean new respect for ECU in the higher education community, enhanced financial resources for the university, and increased opportunities to conduct research that is vital to the entire state of North Carolina and beyond. The ECU board at its meeting last month had asked the Board of Governors to declare East Carolina a doctoral institution. The Board of Governors at its meeting today in Chapel Hill, approved a resolution declaring that ECU is a doctoral institution. The only other doctoral institution in the UNC system is UNC-Greensboro.