- The students, the energy is absolutely amazing.

And at North Carolina Central, this university is about three times as large as ECSU.

So to see the students when they came back to campus was just wonderful.

It was absolutely amazing to watch them as they navigate the campus and to get to meet them.

And, you know, that was one of my goals when I started here at North Carolina Central, is I want to know the students, I want to get to know them.

I see myself as that chancellor that they can walk up to and talk to me and give me feedback on their experience.

And I wanna, you know, let them know that I'm listening, I'm listening, and however I can help them navigate their college journey, I want to be able to do that.

But the energy here at North Carolina Central is absolutely amazing.

And we have over 8,000 students total enrollment.

And this year we saw an increase in our enrollment.

So to have all of them on campus, to see their faces, I even told one student, I said, you know, "I could have the worst day in the office, and I'll get up and walk outside and talk to the students.

And it makes everything better."

Because it helps me to say to myself, "This is why I do what I do."

I do it for the students.

I do it for the quality of the education that we're providing.

I do it for the impact that it makes in their careers as they think about graduation and earning that degree.