Dr. Lloyd Vincent Hackley

Lloyd Vincent Hackley was born and educated in the Roanoke, Virginia’s African-American Community. He graduated from Lucy Addison High School and left for the Air Force immediately after commencement. He rose through the enlisted ranks to non-commissioned officer status before receiving a commission as an officer. He was a distinguished graduate from officer training school. All four of his academic degree levels— AA, BA, MA and PhD— were completed while he was on active duty and were funded by Air Force “Scholarships.” He graduated from Michigan State with high academic honors, earned his doctorate in International Relations at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and he is a Phi Beta Kappa scholar. He earned numerous military decorations, including the Bronze Star for Valor, the Meritorious Service Medal and the Vietnam Cross for Gallantry. He completed his 20 years of service as associate professor of Political Science/International Relations, and coach of track and cross-country, for men and women, at the U.S. Air Force Academy.

Dr. Hackley recently completed service as chancellor (Interim) of Fayetteville State University. He served as chancellor (Interim) at North Carolina A&T State University from June 2006 to July 2007. He was president of the North Carolina Community College System, chancellor and tenured professor of both Fayetteville State University and the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, vice president in the 16-campus University of North Carolina system, chair of the North Carolina Child Advocacy Institute, chair of the NC Methodist Home for Children, chair of the Arkansas Civil Rights Commission, and chair, for seven years, of the US President’s Advisory Board on Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Dr. Hackley was also a faculty member in the Government Executive Institute at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of business. Hackley serves on the Board of Directors for four corporations.

Dr. Hackley is chancellor emeritus of Fayetteville State University, and chairman emeritus of the National CHARACTER COUNTS! Coalition. Since January, 1997, he has taught in or conducted personally more than 6,000 seminars, workshops and lectures in ethics and character development throughout America and overseas, for children, parents, teachers, coaches, and other persons who work with children, as well as for businesses, universities, various governmental agencies and other youth-serving organizations.

Among his hundreds of honors and awards, his most prized are the Key to the City of Roanoke, NC PTA’s highest award for service to children (twice), the NC Methodist Home for Children’s Guardian Angel Award, and the NC Association of Families and Children Services Trustee of the Year Award for 2003. Then NC Governor Hunt declared May 23, 1994, as Lloyd V. Hackley Day. Recently, the University of North Carolina Association of Student Governments selected Dr. Hackley as the recipient of their highest award for service to students in North Carolina and was awarded the Key to the City of Fayetteville, North Carolina.

He has two grown children and four grandchildren.