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Academics that work.

Learning is our product. Students areour reason for being. When we achieve ouracademic goals, we make the communitieswe serve better places.

Fayetteville State University is committed to enhancing careeropportunities for each of its student graduates. In this ‘state of ouracademic world’ publication, let us show you that commitmentthrough the academic efforts and accomplishments of our students,faculty, and staff.

Improving life around us, one community at a time.

At Fayetteville State University, our service to studentscomes first. By providing the highest quality learningexperience, we fulfill our mission to promote theeducational, social, cultural, and economic transformationof southeastern North Carolina and beyond.Our primary goal is to make the educational experience

a richer, more rewarding one for students of all ages and backgrounds—including the best and the brightest—and, ultimately, produce globalcitizens as leaders who will shape the future.It’s all about academics that work…Work for our students, work for our

local and regional communities, work for the global community.

Fostering Education.One of our legacy programs that we continue to do best is preparing our students to teach others. Our School ofEducation graduates a large and increasing share of the much needed teachers and principals in southeastern NC—a true partnership between the public schools and us. We are also especially proud of our graduates’ teacher licensurepass rates and their subsequent careers as professional educators. With FSU being located in one of the mostdiverse regions in North Carolina that includes a major military base, our student teachers have the opportunityto adapt and expand their teaching methods through in-classroom experiences by working with students from a widerange of cultures and backgrounds.

FSU student teacher (right) assists kindergarten teacherat Cliffdale Classical Elementary School (Fayetteville)

Helping Our Country,Right Here.

Fayetteville is home to Fort Bragg, a base that has been identifiedas a primary staging area for military deployments now and tomorrow.We are inextricably linked to the military here at FSU and support ourtroops not only at our main campus, but also at two bases—Fort BraggArmy base and Seymour Johnson Air Force base.Captain Hamm Shenk, USAF, earned his MBA at FSU, alternating

between on-base lectures, video conferencing and online courseworkto obtain his degree. As a rising officer, he was a member of the ASAF’sThunderbird precision flying team and now instructs aspiring F-15Efighter pilots. He says he broadened his knowledge about leadership atFSU, and that experience holds him in good stead as he tries to instillthose same traits in his young flying students.

Teachingothers.

CurrentasToday.Connecting students to the widerworld of business with the best tools.

In today’s always-connected world, it’s important tohave the right technology. But, it’s more important tolearn how to use that technology. It’s this practicalapproach to technology that led FSU to create a real-worldlaboratory for students in the School of Business andEconomics to learn about the world of stocks, security

trading, and finance. The FSU School of Business and EconomicsTrading Roommodels a stock exchange trading floor. Studentscan learn how to buy and trade, using the same tools as professionalbrokers and traders. Without risking real dollars, of course . . . Pr

acticalTechnology.

Winning competitions,creating real companies.

The group of our business students wona nationwide business presentationcompetition, and they did it by developingand talking about a real start-up—theirown. The team started with an idea for anew product created by a professorin

the sciences at FSU: a new kind of soil forhouseplants, infused with plant-specific nutrientsthat maintain moisture over time, obviating theneed to water frequently. A patent application

for the product and process is pending.The product’s genesis was from plant

technology, but the team won because theymade their case better than anyone else inthe competition. And that’s just anotherexample of how we approach learninghere at FSU—through collaborative andinterdisciplinary learning and more thanjust a nod to the practical.Academics that work.

Business student team wins 1st place and $15,000 for “Best Written Business Plan” at Opportunity Funding Corporation—Venture Challenge (April 2010)

O Bringing the Arts to Our Area.ur role as an intellectual andcultural center addresses twoimportant audiences: ourstudents and our regionalcitizens. For students, it is aboutself-enrichment and obtaininga well-balanced liberal artseducation, or about preparingto be teachers or performersof the arts. For the public, wefunction as a leading venuefor arts exposure, with theSeabrook Auditorium, an inti-mate 1,100+ seat performancespace, hosting a variety of cul-tural events and performancesthroughout the year.In addition to student

performances in vocal andinstrumental music, theater,dance and the spoken word,FSU hosts distinguishedspeakers, travelling dancetroupes, Broadway theater,operas, and nationally-renowned entertainers.

FSU has a well-established and growing internationaleducation program. It’s all about broadening the worldviewsof our students, exposing them to global communitiesand diverse cultures through study abroad and exchangeprograms or on campus through interaction with interna-tional students and faculty.We recently have had study abroad opportunities for

FSU students in Spain, China, Nigeria and Tanzania, and havehosted students and faculty from China, France, Germany,India, Japan, and Kenya. In partnership with the FulbrightOrganization, we have hosted Foreign Language TeacherAssistants from Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, China, India,Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Russia, Tanzania, and Tunisia.

InternationalLearning Experiences

Sharing Cultures.

Study abroad: Spain (above),China (right)

The Elixir of Love by Gaetano Donizetti

FSUis home to a state-of-the-art electronic device…andnot just any electronic device, but a Microprobe.This instrument—of which there are only a few inservice anywhere in the U.S., private and governmentcombined—is a high-powered magnification andchemical analysis tool in a single instrument that candiscern identities and composition of a vast range ofsubstances and confirm where they originated.In partnership with UNC Pembroke, FSU established

the Southeastern North Carolina Regional Microanalytical Center(SENCR-MIC) in 2008. The center is a laboratory to teach studentshow to use the microprobe and a resource center to provide analyti-cal services for public and private institutions, and a self-sustainingresearch center.

In the first fewmonths, SENCR-MIC has been in partnership with:

• The NC State Bureau of Investigation: The SBI has used SENCR-MIC to help analyze forensic evidence in a criminal case, and theresults proved the government’s case, confirming a suspect’spresence at the crime scene.

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Partnerships

• The Cumberland County School’s CrossCreek Early College High School on campusat FSU: High school student James Alston(pictured) has been trained to operate theMicroprobe and provide analysis—anexperience with a device only available atone other university in the U.S. As a result ofthis experience, he plans to study forensicswhen he goes to college.

These early partnerships are just the beginning according toDr. Steven Singletary, Director of SENCR-MIC. “In addition toproviding a useful and rare teaching tool for our students to preparefor exciting careers in fields such as criminal justice (crime sceneforensics), health and medicine, government, chemistry, biology,mathematics, environmental science, space exploration and more,it opens doors to partnerships with public and private entities whoneed the analytical capabilities the Microprobe provides, helpingimprove products and processes, solving forensic mysteries, andbringing economic development and potential jobs to our area ofthe country. I see nothing but upside, and I’m excited.”Productive partnerships, indeed.

Compositional image of crystal grown in molten rock (magma) that can beused to predict volcanic eruptions

Microprobe instrument in operation

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