RALEIGH, N.C. – Dr. Karrie Dixon, who has led the HBCU Elizabeth Metropolis State College to a brand new period of growth and success, was elected chancellor of the North Carolina Central College on Thursday by the UNC Board of Governors.
She was advisable by UNC System President Peter Hans following a nationwide search that drew greater than 50 candidates, leading to three finalists endorsed by the NCCU Board of Trustees. She succeeds Chancellor Johnson O. Akinleye, who’s retiring June 30 after eight years main the HBCU.
Dixon has served as chancellor of the HBCU Elizabeth Metropolis State since 2018, bringing forth a renaissance to a campus that beforehand skilled enrollment declines and monetary pressures. Throughout her tenure as chancellor, Dixon grew enrollment by practically 70%, raised $24 million in non-public presents and constructed partnerships that led to just about $300 million in state and federal funding for services, infrastructure, and educational packages. In two years’ time, worker morale moved from the bottom within the UNC System to the best.
“Karrie Dixon has been a broadly admired chief in our college System for greater than twenty years,” Hans mentioned. “She’s recognized for constructing nice groups and taking up massive challenges with honesty and optimism. I’m excited for NC Central and grateful to Chancellor Dixon for her dedication to this state.”
“Being part of this unimaginable neighborhood of students, innovators, and leaders on the sloping hills and verdant inexperienced is a dream come true,” mentioned NCCU Chancellor-elect Dixon. “NCCU embodies grit, innovation, management, objective, and legacy, and I’m dedicated to constructing on our wealthy traditions and guaranteeing that our college students, college, workers, and alumni have the instruments and alternatives essential to succeed. I can’t wait to have interaction with all the chances that Durham has to supply.”
“We’re thrilled to have a dynamic new chancellor in Dr. Karrie Dixon to speed up the expansion of our nice establishment so our college students and graduates can absolutely compete in a worldwide economic system,” mentioned NCCU Board of Trustees Chair Kevin Holloway. “That is about offering the very best training we are able to for our college students to attain their objective and take flight.”
Dr. James H. Johnson Jr., college member at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Enterprise Faculty, served as chair of the NCCU chancellor search advisory committee. “I’m very excited as a result of I firmly imagine that Chancellor-elect Karrie Dixon possesses all the specified traits and traits that NCCU constituents who participated in our rigorous search course of mentioned they hoped for within the subsequent chancellor,” Johnson mentioned. “She is a North Carolina native; a seasoned increased training administrator with a monitor file of student-centered success within the UNC System; dedicated to lively and purposeful engagement with the total vary of college constituencies; and has the management presence and tender expertise acumen to draw the help that NCCU must thrive. I’m assured in President Hans’ determination and in the way forward for my alma mater.”
Dixon has labored throughout the UNC System for 23 years, transferring up the ranks in educational positions on the System Workplace, together with as vp for educational and pupil affairs, senior affiliate vp for educational and pupil affairs, and assistant vp for educational and pupil affairs. Beforehand she was assistant vice provost at NC State College, and earlier than that served as a program evaluation advisor in NC State’s Division of Chemical Engineering. She was an adjunct assistant professor at NC State’s School of Schooling, and taught communication at NC State and College of North Carolina at Greensboro.
She served a one-year American Council on Schooling Fellowship at Wake Forest College in 2016-17.
She has been a longtime ally of the UNC Affiliation of Pupil Governments and just lately acquired the coed group’s prime award, the William C. Friday Lifetime Achievement Award.
A primary-generation school graduate, Dixon holds a bachelor’s diploma in communication from NC State College, a grasp’s diploma in speech communication from UNC Greensboro, and a Physician of Schooling diploma in increased training administration from NC State College.
“It is a nice day for North Carolina Central College,” mentioned UNC Board of Governors Chair Randy Ramsey. “Karrie Dixon has made huge contributions to japanese North Carolina throughout her years of service to the HBCU Elizabeth Metropolis State College and can now be an amazing chief for one more of our state’s necessary public HBCUs. I congratulate her and stay up for seeing what this new chapter holds.”
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