Edward Fort, chancellor emeritus at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, currently serves the institution as the Edward B. Fort Professor of Education. Dr. Fort is nationally known as a specialist in urban school administration and higher education organizational construct. His earlier administrative experiences include a second chancellorship (the University of Wisconsin Center System) and two urban school superintendencies-Sacramento, California, and Inkster, Michigan. As a former chairman of the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education Board of Directors, he is a recipient of the National Association of Student Affairs Professionals Presidential Golden Award and the State of North Carolina's highest gubernatorial award, "The Order of the Long Leaf Pine."