Harold Lee Martin, Sr. served as the 12th Chancellor of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University.
Martin was the first alumnus to serve as the university’s chief executive.
Under Martin’s leadership, the university has expanded its research contracts and grant funding, boosted its status as one of North Carolina’s top three public research institutions, reorganized its colleges and academic programs, increased endowment holdings by more than 150% and increased enrollment to be the nation’s largest HBCU.
Martin was heralded as an education and business thought leader in TIME magazine’s August 2020 edition of The Leadership Brief. In 2019, he was honored by the Thurgood Marshall College Fund with the Education Leadership Award.
Martin received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina A&T University and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
