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• 84% of students are on Financial Aid
  
• Only 12% of A&T alumni of record made a gift last year (3,175 out of approximately 27,000).
  
• When founded, A&T was supported almost entirely by public dollars. At present, state support provides less than 35% of the funds needed to provide students with the high quality education to which the University is committed.
  
• The State of North Carolina has cut $22 million from A&T's budget over the past three years
  

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Professor Celestine Ntuen




Professor Jagannathan Sankar



Two outstanding engineering professors at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University received the institution’s Distinguished University Professor Award. Professors Celestine Ntuen and Jagannathan Sankar were presented the awards by Chancellor James C. Renick on April 20 at the university’s Board of Trustees meeting.
The University Distinguished Professor is the highest academic honor at A&T reflecting exemplary performance in two of the following areas: teaching, mentoring, and advising; research, scholarship, or artistic creativity, and extension, university service, or professional practice.


Aggies across the country and around the world may view the May 7th A&T Commencement via the Internet.

Go to http://www.ncat.edu/. Then, click the commencement site in the Aggie box. Former chairman and chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard, Carly Fiorina, is keynote speaker for North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University’s 2005 Spring Commencement. The ceremony will be held Saturday, May 7, in the Greensboro Coliseum. The lineup will begin at 8 a.m., and the processional for both faculty and students will begin at 8:30 a.m.


A&T CHANCELLOR ANNOUNCES NEW DIRECTOR OF INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS



DeLores “Dee” Todd
New Aggie Director of Intercollegiate Athletics

Aggie alumni, fans and supporters were on hand this morning when North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University made an announcement regarding the athletics program. N.C. A&T Chancellor James C. Renick introduced DeLores “Dee” Todd as the University’s new director of intercollegiate athletics, effective June 15.

“We are very pleased that we were able to recruit Dee Todd for such an important role at A&T,” Renick said. “She has excellent experience and the right motivation to manage and lead our intercollegiate athletics program.”

As the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) assistant commissioner/director of student-athletic welfare since 2000, Todd said she was excited and eager about her new role at A&T.

“I am extremely excited about the opportunity to take the athletics department in the same direction as the university with its growth,” Todd said. “I am looking forward to doing my best to motivate, support and lead the department to victory on the playing field, in academics and in life.”

ACC Commissioner John Swofford described the hire as a wonderful opportunity for Todd, A&T and Greensboro. “Dee has vast experiences as a student athlete, coach and administrator, and she is a superb individual who knows intercollegiate athletics in and out,” Swofford explained. “Her involvement within the Greensboro community will be a real plus.”

Todd was the first female to serve as an assistant commissioner in the history of the ACC and will be A&T’s first female director of athletics. Todd has over 30 years of progressive experience and responsibility with documented success in interscholastic and intercollegiate athletes in planning, scheduling, training development, Olympic sports programs and financial and human resource management. She describes her background as “a rare blend of knowledge, experience and love of sports and its periphery that is uncommon and uncompromising.”

Her ACC responsibilities enabled Todd to supervise, direct and coordinate officiating programs for baseball, as well as plan, organize and direct men’s and women’s cross country, men’s and women’s indoor track and field, men’s and women’s outdoor track and field and baseball championship events. She was the liaison between those sports committees and coordinated special projects with institutional staff members. She recently served on the NCAA Championship/Competition Cabinet and Administration Subcommittees and chaired the Certified Contests Subcommittee.

Todd chaired the USOC’s Minorities in Sports Task Force and was co-founder of Project GOLD. She is past president and former member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of College Women Athletic Administrators. She chaired the subcommittee of the NCAA Division I Track and Field Committee responsible for the complete coordination of the Division I Outdoor Track Meet from 1995-99. In 1999, she served as an assistant coach of World Track and Field Championships in Seville, Spain. She also served as tournament manager for NCAA East Regionals for Women in 1999.

Todd joined the Georgia Tech staff in 1985 after serving as head coach for four years at Northwestern University, where she earned the 1983 Cross Country Big Ten Coach of the Year honors. While at Georgia Tech, Todd was a three-time Georgia State Coach of the Year, winning the Georgia State Intercollegiate Championships from 1985-87. Todd was named ACC Coach of the Year for Women’s Outdoor Track in 1987 after guiding the Lady Jackets to a fourth place finish in the outdoor championships after the school’s second year of competition in that sport.

A native of Camden, N.J ., Todd was a successful high school coach in Illinois. She led her outdoor track teams and cross country teams to 11 conference championships at Thornridge High in Dolton and at Rich Central High in Olympia. She also spent one year at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School in Bethesda, Md.

Todd graduated with honors from Winston-Salem State University in 1972 with a degree in health and physical education. She received her masters in human relations and psychotherapy from Governor’s State University in 1981. In 2001, she was inducted into the Central Collegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) Hall of Fame and in Winston-Salem State University’s Hall of Fame in 2002.

For the past 14 years, Todd has served on various committees in the community including Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, chair of Greensboro Parks and Recreation Commission, North Carolina Juvenile Justice Commissioner, Board of Directors for Goodwill Industries, Mental Health Board of Directors, YMCA Board of Directors, Center for Creative Leadership Board of Directors, external vice president of Women’s Professional Forum and Board of Governors, Summit House of North Carolina. She also works on various NCAA committees.




North Carolina A&T’s Purchasing Office presents the Minority and Women Business Opportunity Fair from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., May 11-12, Memorial Union Exhibit Hall. Food will be served. For more information, call 336.334.7555.