RALEIGH, N.C. – Dr. Karrie Dixon, who has led Elizabeth Metropolis State College to a brand new period of growth and success, was elected chancellor of North Carolina Central College at present by the UNC Board of Governors.
She was really helpful 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 college.
Dixon has served as chancellor of 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 almost 70%, raised $24 million in personal items, and constructed partnerships that led to just about $300 million in state and federal funding for amenities, infrastructure, and tutorial packages.
In two years’ time, worker morale moved from the bottom within the UNC System to the best.
“Karrie Dixon has been a extensively admired chief in our college System for greater than 20 years,” Hans stated. “She’s identified 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 unbelievable neighborhood of students, innovators and leaders on the sloping hills and verdant inexperienced is a dream come true,” stated 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, school, workers and alumni have the instruments and alternatives essential to succeed. I can’t wait to interact with all the probabilities 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,” stated NCCU Board of Trustees Chair Kevin Holloway. “That is about offering the very best schooling we are able to for our college students to realize their objective and take flight.”
Dr. James H. Johnson Jr., school member at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Enterprise College, 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 stated they hoped for within the subsequent chancellor,” Johnson stated.
“She is a North Carolina native; a seasoned larger schooling administrator with a observe document of student-centered success within the UNC System; dedicated to energetic and purposeful engagement with the total vary of college constituencies; and has the management presence and mushy abilities acumen to draw the assist that NCCU must thrive. I’m assured in President Hans’ determination and in the way forward for my alma mater.”
Dixon has labored inside the UNC System for 23 years, transferring up the ranks in tutorial positions on the System Workplace, together with as vp for tutorial and scholar affairs, senior affiliate vp for tutorial and scholar affairs and assistant vp for tutorial and scholar 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 Faculty of Training and taught communication at NC State and College of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Dr. Dixon served a one-year American Council on Training Fellowship at Wake Forest College in 2016-17. She has been a longtime ally of the UNC Affiliation of Scholar Governments and lately acquired the scholar 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 Training diploma in larger schooling administration from NC State College.
“This can be a nice day for North Carolina Central College,” stated UNC Board of Governors Chair Randy Ramsey.
“Karrie Dixon has made monumental contributions to jap North Carolina throughout her years of service to Elizabeth Metropolis State College and can now be an amazing chief for an additional of our state’s essential public HBCUs. I congratulate her and stay up for seeing what this new chapter holds.”
