WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.
Winston-Salem State University has teamed up with NASCAR to launch the nation’s first motorsport management bachelor’s degree program at a historically Black college or university. The program is one of the initiatives NASCAR has undertaken to introduce minorities to some of the behind-the-scenes opportunities in auto racing.
The program was approved by the University of North Carolina Board of Governors last week and will begin this fall.
“This is great news for WSSU,” says the university’s interim chancellor, Dr. Michelle Howard-Vital. “This degree will help prepare a whole new generation of students to excel in the management aspects of motorsport.”
Vital, who has been the interim chancellor since July 2006 at the university, was recently selected as the new president of historically Black Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, and will begin her tenure there on July 30th.
