Since 2018, the Purple and Gold Bus Tour has taken us to 43 stops across 19 eastern NC counties bringing together 155 faculty, staff, and administrators and around 40 College of Nursing students for two to three days of networking, community engagement, and research discussions with community partners throughout rural eastern NC.

Previous bus tour participants are invited to a reunion on April 27, 1-4 p.m. in the Life Sciences and Biotechnology Building.

This event will be filled with opportunities to reconnect with community partners and previous bus tour participants from the different years. Select community partners will talk about exciting initiatives in partnership with ECU faculty and staff with time reserved to consider new funding opportunities and possibilities to expand community engaged scholarship. Community partners will be invited to experience tours of the Life Sciences and Biotechnology Building as well as east and west campus. All guests are invited to stay and join us for refreshments.

We ask that those attending RSVP by April 14. If you have a partnership, funding opportunity, or just something exciting that has come from the bus tour for you, let us know! We would like to highlight that information during our reunion.

We look forward to seeing you on April 27!

Questions? Contact our office: communityengagement@ecu.edu