“We have several carryovers from the previous transition board, the main thing is the operating agreement with the university that we need to focus on. It spells out our role and what the new integrated model will look like,” said board chairwoman Pamela McCorkle-Buncum ‘81.

McCorkle-Buncum, a former member and chairwoman of the university’s Board of Trustees, and the Alumni Association Board of Directors are hard at work on the strategies to fulfil the goals outlined in the strategic plan, The Driving Force: The Strategic Route to Success.

Moving forward on the mission of cultivating loyalty and tradition – and fostering mutually beneficial lifelong relationship between the university, alumni, students and friends of the Aggie family – the association is using exemplary customer service, integrity, personifying Aggie Pride, civic engagement, gratitude, cultivation and communication as its guiding principles.

As a part of the transition to an integrated model, the Office of Alumni Relations, formerly the Office of Alumni Affairs, underwent a name change.

“The name change really reflects our efforts to move forward cohesively,” McCorkle-Buncum said.

The association is also making an effort to grow the 50,000-plus alumni base to get more Aggies across different eras involved.

“We didn’t always do a good job of reflecting each era or decade of graduates along the way. This time we have even factored in the student alumni group,” McCorkle-Buncum said. “When you can get the perspective of that many eras of time and what we bring to the table from our different experiences, it reaches further and only helps the university.”

Joining McCorkle-Buncum on the board is Dr. Winser Alexander ’64, Helen Butler-Duncan ’73, Bonita Gayle Graves ’72, Wayne Kimball Jr. ’11, Sonja Matthews-Mooney ’91, Dexter Mullins ’10 and Dr. Judy Rashid ’74.

The new board also includes six regional director seats: Jermel Miller ’03, Mideast; Rev. Irv Moore ’72, Midwest; Dr. Trent Jones ’91, Southeast; and Charles “Chuck” Burch Jr. ’82. There are plans to fill two vacant seats for the North Carolina and Northeast regions.

Appointed positions include Dean Marc Williams, Student Affairs designee; Karen Collins ’82, Board of Trustee representative; Darryl Towns ’90, Board of Visitors representative; Zoe Hardaway, ’17, Student Alumni Association president; Joseph Parker ’67, Aggie Athletics Foundation Representative; Dr. Clay Gloster ’85, ’88, chancellor designee; Dr. Claudette Bennett ’75, immediate past chair; and Rosetta Clay, associate vice chancellor for Alumni Relations and executive director of the National Alumni Association.

Click the link for a full list of the North Carolina A&T State University National Alumni Association Board of Directors. For the strategic plan, The Driving Force: The Strategic Route to Success, and more information visit the association’s website

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