North Carolina A&T University Provost Named President of Norfolk State University
NORFOLK, Va.
The Norfolk State University Board of Visitors, in a special meeting held last week selected Dr. Carolyn Winstead Meyers, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at North Carolina A&T University, to be NSU’s next president.
Meyers, a native of Newport News, Va., participated in campus forums with diverse constituencies late last week. She was one of two finalists chosen by the Presidential Search Committee to interview on campus. Meyers succeeds Dr. Marie V. McDemmond, who served as NSU’s president for eight years before resigning last March for health reasons. Dr. Alvin J. Schexnider, NSU interim president will continue to serve in this capacity until Meyers assumes her duties as president.
A tenured professor in the College of Engineering at A&T, Meyers holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Howard University; a master’s in mechanical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Georgia Tech. She has done postdoctoral work at Harvard University’s Institute for Educational Management. Her career in higher education spans more than 30 years and includes both academic and administrative experiences.
While Meyers was serving as an associate professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech, she received her first administrative appointment as the director of the Center for Success of the Southeastern Universities and Colleges Coalition in Engineering Education (SUCCEED), an engineering education coalition of eight universities in the southeastern United States funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Meyers currently chairs the board of directors of the National Institute of Aerospace, which is based in Hampton, Va., and holds numerous professional memberships on several boards including the Board of Trustees of the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, the Advisory Board for the Journal of Engineering Education and the Board of Trustees of the Moses Cone Health Systems.
