UNCP Today
Fall 2011
Dr. Cammie Hunt to lead Distance
Education, Outreach
D
r. Cammie Hunt `90 has been named
associate vice chancellor for Engaged
Outreach effective July 1. She leaves the post of
acting dean of the School of Business.
A 14-year employee, Dr. Hunt will lead
the Office of Distance Education and the
Regional Center for Economic, Community and
Professional Development at COMtech. She
will report to Dr. Ken Kitts, provost and vice
chancellor for Academic Affairs.
"Cammie Hunt is uniquely well-positioned
to help UNCP reach out to students, groups
and businesses in our service area, and I know
that she will make her presence felt across the
region," Dr. Kitts said.
Dr. Hunt is excited about her newest
opportunity. "There is no better job than
teaching and working for the success of UNC
Pembroke and its students," she said. "I am
thrilled to be taking on a new challenge in a
unit with an important mission and dedicated
staff."
The scope of Dr. Hunt's outreach
responsibilities is broad. UNCP is the third
largest provider of online courses among
the UNC universities. In addition, Distance
Education operates four satellite campuses at
Richmond, Sandhills and Cape Fear community
colleges and on Fort Bragg.
Travis Bryant to lead campus
safety operations
T
ravis Bryant '92 has returned to Pembroke
as associate vice chancellor for Campus
Safety and Emergency Operations. He will lead
the 21-member campus police and emergency
planning and operations.
Bryant has 19 years of experience with
municipal and higher education law
enforcement. He teaches criminal justice
courses at Robeson Community College (RCC)
and provides firearms training to local law
enforcement agencies.
A police officer at UNCP for five years,
he served as police chief for the Town of
Pembroke. He then became director of the
Basic Law Enforcement Training and Criminal
Justice program at RCC. In 2008, he joined
Fayetteville State University as associate vice
chancellor for Police and Public safety before
emergency operations was added to his title.
Bryant reports to Dr. Diane Jones, vice
chancellor for the Office of Student Affairs.
"We look forward to his leadership,
coordination and communications for
"Building
enrollment and
providing good
service to our
students is always
important on
satellite campuses,"
Dr. Hunt said.
"UNCP is a
remarkable success
story with online
education," she
said.
Outreach into the
community, through grants and other programs,
is the Regional Center's mission, and Dr. Hunt's
new office will be located there. The potential
of the center is wide open, she said.
"I started my career at UNCP with the Small
Business and Technology Development Center
(SBTDC), which is in the Regional Center,"
Dr. Hunt said. "I would like to develop more
partnerships between programs like this at the
Regional Center and the academic community.
Dr. Hunt, who will continue to teach, is an
assistant professor in the School of Business.
She has taught courses in entrepreneurship,
management, communications and economics.
A Robeson County native, Dr. Hunt is a
1990 UNCP graduate and earned a Master
of Business Administration degree from the
university in 1997.
preventive and
emergency
preparedness and
response planning
efforts he will bring
to this position," Dr.
Jones said.
Bryant said, "It's
good to be back
home. I have a
personal interest
in making sure
everyone is safe on
this campus because
many of my family and friends work and go to
school here."
A university is like policing a small city, and
Bryant is pleased with what he sees at UNCP. "I
have a full staff with many well-trained veterans
who provide quality service."
After earning an undergraduate degree in
criminal justice, Bryant took classes in UNCP's
Master of Public Administration program and
earned a Master of Arts degree in liberal studies
with a concentration in criminal justice from
NC State University.
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UNCP ranks high in the U.S.
for undergraduate degrees
conferred to American Indians
The university ranked 8th
nationally for the number
of undergraduate degrees
conferred in 2009-10,
Chancellor Carter announced
during a meeting with the
Lumbee Tribal Council on
October 20.
UNCP is the only institution
of higher education east of the
Mississippi to rank in the top 20
nationally for American Indian
graduates, according to an
annual survey by Diverse: Issues
in Higher Education magazine
(July 2011).
With 164 graduates in 2009-
10, UNCP showed a year-over-
year gain of 21 percent.
Diverse magazine's survey
breaks out and ranks American
Indian graduates by area of
study. UNCP scored even higher
in 2009-10 in selected areas:
· social sciences 1st
nationally with 35 graduates
in 2009-10
· biological and biomedical
Sciences 3rd nationally, 17
graduates
· public administration and
social service professions
3rd national, 16 graduates
· law enforcement 4th
nationally, 10 graduates
· health professions 6th
nationally, 17 graduates
· education 7th nationally,
20 graduates
· psychology 7th nationally,
12 graduates
MSW earns full accreditation
The new Master of Social
Work (MSW) program was
notified this fall it has won full
accreditation from the National
Council on Social Work
Education.
The program accepted its
first students in 2008. With
accreditation, the university and
its MSW graduates will play an
ever-greater role in the region's
mental health, child welfare,
geriatric care and more.
"The region and its people
are the biggest winners," said
Dr. Sherry Edwards, department
chair. "Social workers are the
largest providers of mental
health and child welfare service
in the nation. MSWs are front-
line halthcare and social service
professionals."
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