E-Letter: December 1, 2006

Stanley F. Battle, educator, author and civic activist, assumed the role of Chancellor at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University on July 1, 2007. He is the eleventh chancellor/president to serve at the helm of the land-grant university since its inception in 1891.

Prior to coming to N.C. A&T, Dr. Battle served as President of Coppin State University in Baltimore, Maryland for four years. He was the fourth person in the institution’s 107-year history to hold the position.

Dr. Battle led Coppin to new plateaus from the outset of his administration. His three-point focus was (1) Academic Excellence (2) Facilities Improvement and (3) External Relations. He managed a $168 million combined capital and operating budget and led a staff of 356, with 243 faculty members and a student body of approximately 4,300.

Under Dr. Battle’s leadership, Coppin flourished and the institution’s status changed from college to university. Coppin gained new national status with the passing of the name change legislation, broadened its research opportunities, enhanced student and faculty recruitment capabilities and provided a dramatic boost to campus morale.

Dr. Battle is the brain child of several pioneering educational initiatives that are demonstrative of thoughtful attention, energy and resourcefulness to the development of young people. These include: (1) the Coppin/Rosemont Initiative – the only higher education institution in Maryland to manage a public school that was failing and helped raise it into the ranks of the very best city schools; (2) the debut of the Coppin Academy in 2005 – a 400 pupil, on-campus model high school which was funded in part by the Gates Foundation and Thurgood Marshall Fund; and (3) the publication of the State of Black Baltimore – a collection of scholarly research and observations produced and distributed in collaboration with the Greater Baltimore Urban League.


In addition to serving as President of Coppin, Dr. Battle earned academic administrative experience working as an Associate Vice President at Eastern Connecticut State University and as a Vice Chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He has four academic degrees including a B.S. in sociology from Springfield College; M.S.W. in casework from the University of Connecticut; M.P.H. in maternal and child health and Ph.D. in social welfare policy from the University of Pittsburgh, respectively.

Dr. Battle is also an accomplished opera singer and fitness buff. He and his wife, Judith Lynn Rozie-Battle, are the parents of a daughter, Ashley Lynn.






 



 

 

 

North Carolina A&T State University

Founded in Greensboro in 1891, North Carolina A&T State University is a high research activity, land-grant university. With a student enrollment of more than 11,000, it houses one of three schools of engineering within the University of North Carolina and offers doctoral degrees in related disciplines. It also offers a wide range of baccalaureate and master’s degree programs with emphases in engineering, technology, and the sciences. In partnership with government and industry, A&T faculty conduct basic and applied research in an array of fields, including engineering, transportation, and agriculture.


The University of North Carolina


The oldest public university in the nation, the University of North Carolina enrolls more than 200,000 students and encompasses all 16 of North Carolina’s public institutions that grant baccalaureate degrees. UNC campuses support a broad array of distinguished liberal-arts programs, two medical schools and one teaching hospital, two law schools, a veterinary school, a school of pharmacy, 11 nursing programs, 15 schools of education, three schools of engineering, and a specialized school for performing artists. Also under the University umbrella are the UNC Center for Public Television with its 11-station statewide broadcast network, and the NC School of Science and Mathematics, the nation’s first public residential high school for gifted students.