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people behind the scholarships
Being
aCCounTaBle
alumna endows professorship to honor those
who inspired her and to lift the next generation
of accounting students.
“CoBE was established and
accredited under an exceptional
and visionary leader, Dean
Quiester Craig,” Pinnix-Ragland
said. “I wanted to honor prior
professors such as Craig, Bill
Griggs, Lydell Hyman, Katie Dorset
and Danny Poe, and provide
additional support to attract the
best accounting professors who
aligned with A&T’s model.”
N.C. A&T attracts exceptional
accounting students each year.
Pinnix-Ragland said that the level
of excellence exhibited by the
Hilda Pinnix-Ragland ’77 benefited university’s students must also be
from the discipline and strong shown in its professors to help the
expectations of the professors and students succeed here and at the
deans who lifted her as a student next level.
at North Carolina A&T. Now she
is taking the steps to lift the next “An accounting student’s overall
generation of accounting students success is directly aligned
in the College of Business and with their readiness from high
Economics (CoBE). school, exceptional professors
and diligence and discipline to
Pinnix-Ragland, a retired Duke perform,” she said. “As a student
Energy corporate affairs and launches into the next chapter
business executive, has donated for graduate school or work,
$250,000 to help fund a new the excellent performance in
professorship in the accounting undergraduate propels them
department. The professorship through ranks within corporate
will allow N.C. A&T to attract the America, government and as
best and brightest faculty to teach successful educators.”
students in innovative ways.
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Pinnix-Ragland serves on the
university’s board of trustees as
secretary, as well as on corporate
boards as an independent director.
After receiving her bachelor’s
from A&T, she went on to earn live Your
her master’s degree in business
administration from Duke University
in 1986. She also completed BesT liFe ...
graduate studies in taxation at St.
John’s University and the executive
program at the Harvard Kennedy WiTh a
School of Government.
She is a Chapter Fellow of the graDuaTe
National Association of Corporate
Directors, a member of Women
Corporate Directors, and the Degree
recipient of the Triangle Business
Journal’s Lifetime Women in
Business Award and 4-H Lifetime From a&T
Achievement Award.
Pinnix-Ragland credits her success
to her persistence, education and
her Aggie Pride.
With nine doctoral degree programs
“As the largest HBCU, it is (11 concentrations), 29 master’s programs
imperative that we invest in (46 concentrations), one post-master’s
financial resources to strengthen certificate and eight post-baccalaureate
the current curriculum and align
with the criteria for a top tier certificates, North Carolina A&T has the
university,” she said. “An investment academic opportunities to help you take
in our school today leaves a lifetime your career from good to great. For some
of economic prosperity for future programs, consideration is still possible
generations.”
for the 2019-20 academic year.
Visit www.ncat.edu/tgc/programs
to learn more. The Graduate College