It all started for Tylik McMillan ’19 at the dinner table helping his grandmother make preparations for the local NAACP chapter or school board meetings to address issues in the community. Today, he serves as the national director of the youth and college division for the National Action Network, the civil rights organization founded by the Rev. Al Sharpton. “While all of my friends were out playing games or partying, I was learning from my grandmother the meaning of being a community organizer. She was also the leader of the Democratic Party in Lawrenceville, Virginia,” said McMillan. “I knew firsthand what it took to ask the right questions and to…

Before the pandemic hit, Tina L. Taylor ’95 spent the majority of her time in South Africa operating two nonprofits: Heritage STEM Camps Foundation, a venture capital STEM boot camp, and Heritage Leadership Academy, a boarding school for girls. Both organizations engineer ideas that impact thousands of minority women and children in the U.S. and Africa by driving community transformation and building economic parity. In addition, Taylor is the COO of Core3 Innovation, a technology management firm based in Raleigh. Taylor is now in Raleigh, North Carolina, operating remotely to mentor youth through various STEM programs and stay abreast of global needs for girls and women. “For more than 20…

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University celebrated its annual Fall Convocation program virtually Thursday, Oct. 29, via Zoom. During the program, Chancellor Harold L. Martin Sr. presented the state of the university and welcomed alumni to the “Greatest Homecoming on Earth” virtual celebration. Jelani M. Favors ’97, Ph.D., served as the keynote speaker. An award-winning author and associate professor of history at Clayton State University, Favors received major fellowships in support of his research, including an appointment as a Humanities Writ Large Fellow at Duke University in 2013. He also was an inaugural recipient of the Mellon HBCU Fellowship at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke in…

Amid COVID-19, a sorely missed tradition of this year’s homecoming at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University will be packing Truist Stadium. For nearly 40 years, Aggies young and old have returned again and again for tailgates, the huge parades and cheering on the Aggies and the Blue & Gold Marching Machine. For many alumni, it is hard to imagine our university without its massive arena known as Aggie Stadium from 1981 to 2018, then BB&T Stadium until this year when BB&T and Sun Trust merged to become Truist. But for its first 90 years, A&T had no stadium. In the earliest days of the A. and M. College…

Our alumni chapters are the very core of the university’s connection to the Aggie Family and valued contributors toward the goals of the university’s strategic plan, A&T Preeminence: Taking the Momentum to 2023. The leadership and commitment demonstrated by our chapters have proven to be invaluable, not only to our alma mater but to the communities they serve and interact with daily. Out of 43 chapters, the top five chapters from the 2019-2020 Annual Giving campaign are: Washington, D.C. – $547.199 Charlotte “Queen City” – $150,716 Atlanta – $117,018 Gate City – $106,256 Durham – $96,401 The Division of University Advancement thanks our alumni chapters for their continuous support towards…

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University announced today the inaugural members of the Advisory Council on Alumni Relations, a non-fiduciary, non-governing group that works with the Office of Alumni Relations by providing feedback that enhances programming for alumni engagement. The council consists of up to 15 members appointed by the chancellor. Each member will serve for two years with term appointments starting Aug. 1 of each cycle. Also, a board of trustees’ member will be appointed bi-annually to serve as council chair. University leaders announced intentions to create the council earlier this year along with additional plans to change the ways that N.C. A&T engages alumni and manages alumni…

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University welcomes its 2020-22 cohort of new members to the Young Alumni Council (YAC). Members of YAC serves as change agents who understand the mission, vision, and goals of the university by assisting with bridging the gap between the University and young alumni through awareness, connection and involvement. The mission of YAC is to assist in the areas of professional development, networking, community service and philanthropy. Within the council, there is a leadership committee that consists of a chair, vice chair and philanthropy chair, along with nine regional representatives who assist in program planning with their committee members for young alumni living in the…

The Southern Regional Council and the University of Georgia Libraries has selected author, historian and 1997 North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University alumnus Dr. Jelani Favors as the 2020 recipient of the Lillian Smith Book Award for his distinguished work on “Shelter in a Time of Storm: How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism.” “I am beyond humbled and honored to receive this award. I put a lot of blood, sweat and tears into this project to tell the broader story of historically black colleges and universities,” said Favors. “And to now stand in the company with distinguished authors like Alice Walker and Alex Haley has confirmed…

The Aggie M.E.N. (Male Empowerment Network) program is designed to pair minority male freshmen with mentors to be a resource on which to lean, someone that can help with the transition from high school to college, or someone to get a good word of wisdom when necessary.  Aggie M.E.N. believe that the more connected the freshmen are with the campus, the community, and the village, the more likely that freshmen will be a sophomore in good academic standing.  Aggie M.E.N. has connected 1,000 freshmen to mentors on campus over the last two years.  And, over those last two years, Aggie M.E.N. has been able to boast high persistence and retention…

Good fortune played a part in leading Jazmaine Mayo ’19 to experience a summer abroad – going to London alone and working there for three straight months –serving people who are down on their luck. However, it was Mayo’s education at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and commitment to social work that ultimately made it possible. Mayo found out about the opportunity when she happened to be sitting in sociology and social work professor Pamela Moye’s office last spring. A week later, Mayo received notification that her application, which included the resume she crafted with N.C. A&T’s Office of Career Services along with an interview, was accepted. The…