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people behind the scholarships

Being

aCCounTaBle

alumna endows professorship to honor those Pinnix-Ragland serves on the

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

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