Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg will speak at N.C. A&T’s inaugural Chancellor’s Town Hall on March 13, school officials announced Friday.
About 200 students will attend the invitation-only event from noon to 1 p.m. The public can watch the town hall via Facebook Live, where viewers can comment and post questions, according to a news release.
The Chancellor’s Town Hall initiative was created to bring nationally distinguished guests to Greensboro for dialogue on matters of importance to the campus community and the world beyond. It is part of the university’s commitment to creating an intellectual climate that encourages the creative exchange of ideas, according to the announcement.
A&T seeks to provide through these town halls an ongoing platform for high-profile exploration of major social, political, cultural, environmental and economic issues.
Zuckerberg, the series’ premier speaker, will focus on a theme of “building community,” an idea he wrote about extensively in a widely discussed community letter that he shared on Feb. 16.
Zuckerberg has led Facebook since launching it in his Harvard dorm room with several classmates 13 years ago. It is now the world’s most popular social media platform, with 1.86 billion active users.
Aggie Pride!
Hope he uses this to close the diversity in tech gap.
