NCWC News: North Carolina Wesleyan College Promotes Vann Newkirk To Vice President of Institutional Research and Planning

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June 23, 2005

North Carolina Wesleyan College Promotes Vann Newkirk

To Vice President of Institutional Research and Planning

Rocky Mount, N.C.—Vann Newkirk, Associate Vice President of Institutional Research and Planning at North Carolina Wesleyan College since 2000, has been promoted to Vice President of Institutional Research and Planning. He will play an even greater role in research and strategic planning than in the past and will work closely with Wesleyan’s Dean’s Office and various College constituencies.

Newkirk also recently received a prestigious Distinguished Alumni Award from the National Association For Equal Opportunity In Higher Education at its National Leadership Summit on Blacks in Higher Education, held in Washington, D.C., last May.

Newkirk earned his bachelor’s degree in sociology at Barber-Scotia College, his master’s in history at Winthrop University, his master’s in library science from North Carolina Central University, and his Ph.D. in history at Howard University.

He has received many awards for his scholarship and service, including the Distinguished NAACP Scholar Award in 1999. He has gained experience in academia at Saint Paul’s College in Lawrenceville, Virginia; Edward Waters College in Jacksonville, Florida; Barber-Scotia College in Concord, N.C.; Rowan-Cabarrus Community College; and Montreat College in Black Mountain, N.C.

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