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Jones' visit comes on the heels of the Iowa caucuses and just prior to New Hampshire's presidential primary election.

The associate professor of education from East Carolina University will oversee an ������Ƶ school with 22 full-time faculty members and five full-time faculty members from ������Ƶ College, the College of Arts and Sciences, who work with teacher education programs.

Glenda Phillips Hightower, the first African-American to enroll as a full-time ������Ƶ student, and Eugene Perry '69, the first African-American to receive an ������Ƶ degree, will have formal portraits unveiled during a McKinnon Hall event.

Paper, glass, aluminum and plastics can now be placed in the same recycling bins around the ������Ƶ campus.

More than a dozen events in February will honor African-American contributions to the campus and the world as ������Ƶ celebrates Black History Month.

Doug and his wife, Edna Truitt Noiles ’44 GP ’17, made a gift to ������Ƶ in 2003 to establish the Vera Richardson Truitt Center for Religious and Spiritual Life, and their later support of the ������Ƶ Academy has helped dozens of local high school students pursue dreams of a college education.