Grant for Evaluating School of the Blind

North Carolina Central University (NCCU) received a $70,000 grant to evaluate the Governor Morehead School for the Blind in Raleigh, North Carolina.

"We will evaluate what's happening with education for the students, what's happening at the leadership level and what's happening with staff and teachers," said Alexis Redford, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the School of Education who applied for the grant.

The grant was awarded by the North Carolina Collaboratory, an entity established in 2016 to use and disseminate research expertise from across the University of North Carolina System for practical use by state and local governments.

"All our research will be taken to the state legislature so they can make decisions," Redford said.

NCCU houses a visual impairment training program, the only such program in the state of North Carolina.

The grant runs from January 2026 to June 2027. Researchers will include Redford, two other NCCU faculty and an expert from Arizona.