In 2003, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical announced the creation of a Joint Millennial Campus, with neighboring UNC Greensboro, with the intent to focus on regional economic development. The following year, the university was classified as a doctoral/research intensive university by the Carnegie Foundation, in addition to forming a partnership with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service.[1] On May 1, 2006, Lloyd V. Hackley was named interim chancellor of the university.