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September 2021

Avent Harris participates in leadership institute

Dr. Janeé Avent Harris participated in Leadership Institute for Faith and Education: Building Partnerships for Equity, Justice, and Student from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. This institute took place […]

9.20.2021

ECU’s MLS program participates in UNC summer fellowship grant

The Master of Library Science Program at ECU is participating in a 3-year fellowship program as part of a grant awarded to Wilson Special Collections Library and the University of […]

9.20.2021

August 2021

Hands and Bright receive federal grant awards

East Carolina University Library Science faculty Dr. Africa Hands and Dr. Kawanna Bright received prestigious federal awards from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Dr. Africa Hands received an […]

8.20.2021

June 2021

ECU MLS program celebrates spring 2021 accomplishments

Faculty Assistant Professor, Kawanna Bright, gave the keynote address titled, “Taking a deeper look: Moving beyond surface assessment of our libraries,” at the North Carolina Community College Library Association Conference. Dr. […]

6.23.2021

IDP announces diversity, equity & inclusion scholarship

The Department of Interdisciplinary Professions created a new scholarship to support graduate students in the department. The IDP Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Graduate Student Scholarship is for talented, eligible graduate […]

6.17.2021

Graduate student attends ACRL virtual conference with support from MLS program

Master of Library Science graduate student Carrie Watson was awarded professional development funds from the MLS program to attend the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) 2021 virtual conference, […]

6.4.2021

March 2021

Continuing a Family Legacy

Following in her mother’s footsteps, May 8, 2020 graduate, Jasmine Garland McKinney states that she wants to carry on the legacy that her mother left behind as a counselor in […]

3.8.2021

ECU Graduate goes Rural

As a newcomer to NC, Elizabeth Japczyk Shuler did not have extensive experience in rural settings until she started working as a graduate assistant in REI. Though her major was in […]

3.8.2021

December 2020

MLS program celebrates Fall 2020 faculty, alumni accomplishments

Faculty Assistant Professors Kawanna Bright & Mónica Colón-Aguirre presented an invited paper entitled “Encouraging interdisciplinarity: The impact of assignment requirements on students’ use of interdisciplinary sources in an LIS research […]

12.21.2020

November 2020

Schmidt receives 2020 AAACE Presidential Award

Dr. Steve Schmidt was presented with the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE)’s 2020 Presidential Award for Exceptional and Innovative Leadership at the 2020 AAACE Virtual Conference that […]

11.17.2020