Elizabeth City State University will not lose its U.S. Army ROTC program after all, says Chancellor S. Keith Hargrove.
Hargrove, who was speaking at last week’s ECSU Trustees meeting, said the Viking Battalion will merge with the ROTC program at Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia. ECSU’s program was slated to be inactivated ahead of the start of the 2026 school year.
Hargrove said saving the Viking Battalion from inactivation took a lot of work, but he did not provide specific details about the merger…