Dr. Javaune Adams-Gaston, Norfolk State University’s newest President, can’t hide her excitement about the University and its future. It’s a future she envisions that we will reach as a community. It’s the prospect of this future, at this time and in this place that has connected with her and is connecting her to the University.

“Some of the new programs — cybersecurity, cyber psychology, all of the things happening in nanotechnology — really say that we’re forward facing and thinking about ourselves in the world,” Adams-Gaston said in an interview with HBCU Digest that aired in February shortly after her announcement as NSU’s seventh President.

She was also drawn to the University because of the commitment by members of the Presidential Search Committee and the Norfolk State University Board of Visitors to move Norfolk State to the next level while focusing on students and student success as laid out in the current strategic plan. “I could see that Norfolk State was on the move. And really was focusing on the success of our students and preparing them,” Adams-Gaston said in an interview for BEHOLD during her second week on campus.

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