Nelms to leave IU for chancellory position Aug. 1

Charlie Nelms, IU’s vice president for institutional development and student affairs, will leave the University to become chancellor and provost of North Carolina Central University in Durham, N.C. On June 8, the University of North Carolina system approved Nelms’ appointment, a position he will assume Aug. 1, according to a press release. \nNelms will replace James Ammons, who will leave NCCU to become president of Florida A&M University.\nNelms’ departure will follow that of IU President Adam Herbert, who will leave office July 1. Both are high-ranking black administrators on IU’s campus.\nMore than 8,200 students attend NCCU, one of the fastest-growing campuses in the University of North Carolina system, according to the release. \n“Charlie Nelms brings to North Carolina Central University more than three decades of solid, successful administrative experience at both the campus and system levels,” UNC President Erskine Bowles said in a statement. “He is a proven leader, having served as chancellor of two very respected public universities, and he is a man who leads by example.”\nNelms has led several major, system-wide initiatives at IU involving University planning, institutional research and effectiveness, enrollment management, student affairs, academic support services, K-12 outreach initiatives, student retention, honors programs and diversity and equity efforts, according to the release. \nNelms previously served as chancellor of IU East in Richmond, Ind., from 1987 to 1994, and at the University of Michigan at Flint from 1994 to 1998. In 1998, he left the University of Michigan at Flint to return to IU, where he previously received two advanced degrees, according to a press release. \nFrom 1978 to 1984, he served as the associate dean of academic affairs at IU Northwest in Gary, according to the release. \nNelms plays an active role in several “professional, civic and higher-education organizations,” according to the release. He has served on the National Advisory Board of the National Survey of Student Engagement, which is based at IU. He also led the American Council on Education’s Commission for Leadership Development.\nNelms currently serves on the board of directors of the Indiana African-American History Museum and is a former American Council on Education Fellow and Ford Fellow, according to the release.