Nominations for 2025 Open in November 2024.
Meet Our 2024 Recipients
The Robert H. Wright Leadership Award presented by the ECU Alumni Association is an award given to undergraduate seniors at ECU and is named for Wright, the first president of East Carolina Teachers Training school and East Carolina Teachers College. The award recognizes academic achievement, university and community service, and leadership qualities of those students who live up to Robert H. Wright's legacy of using leadership to influence positive change.
Award recipients receive recognition at the spring commencement ceremony. They are highlighted in the commencement program and a press release is sent to the media, both locally and in their hometowns. The ECU Alumni Association also shares their award designation through all association social media and in the March issue of our e-newsletter, Pirate's Corner.
Award nominations are open beginning November 1 and close on January 31 annually. Recipients are announced by the alumni association in mid-February. Recipients are selected by the Awards Committee which is comprised of members of the ECU Alumni Association Board of Directors.
Who is eligible?
- ECU students who:
- will be graduating with a bachelor’s degree in the spring.
- have graduated with a bachelor’s degree in the summer of the preceding year.
- have graduated with a bachelor’s degree in the fall of the preceding year.
- have an overall academic grade point average of at least 3.5 through the first semester of the graduation year.
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Students with extraordinary achievements whose grade point averages are slightly less than 3.5 may be nominated.
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adhere to standard of moral and ethical conduct and integrity, stature, and demonstrated ability.
Who are not able to be considered?
- Those graduating with masters, doctoral, and medical degrees.
- Those receiving certificates.