East Carolina University

The College of Business is the business school at East Carolina University. It houses both undergraduate and graduate students. The school was... founded in 1936. It was originally accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business in 1967. The Graduate School was original accredited in 1976 by the same association. East Carolina is one of 10 accredited in North Carolina out of 23 N.C. business schools. It is a part of the GMAC governing body. East Carolina has the second oldest business school in North Carolina. The college grants one undergraduate degree, the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. The graduate school grants two degrees, the Master of Business Administration and the Master of Science in Accounting, as well as opportunities for a dual degree with the Brody School of Medicine. The school places a heavy emphasis on its tight-knit and residential character, and has a student population that hovers over 3,000 students and a full-time faculty of 117. The College of Business was founded in 1936 as the Department of Commerce. Dr. Elmer Browning was the founding Dean. The department was renamed the School of Business in 1960.
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Rick Atkinson is an American journalist and author whose contributions led to four Pulitzer Prizes. Atkinson was born in Munich. His father was an... United States Army officer and he grew up at military posts. He earned his bachelor degree from East Carolina University in 1974 and a master of art degree from the University of Chicago in 1976. His first reporting job was at The Morning Sun in Pittsburg, Kansas He started working at the Kansas City Times in 1977. He won the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for articles including a series on the West Point Class of 1966. He also contributed to the Times overall effort which won it another Pulitzer Prize the same year for the coverage of the Hyatt Regency walkway collapse. In 1983 he worked for The Washington Post where he covered The Pentagon and the 1984 Presidential election and was national editor for two years. He went on book leave in 1988 to finish The Long Gray Line, which he had begun reporting on in Kansas City. He returned to the Post in 1989 and was the paper's lead reporter in the 1991 Gulf War.
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