General News

UNC Chancellor Philip L. Dubois delivers a presentation to the UNC Board of Governors today prior to the board’s tour of campus. The UNC Board of Governors held committee meetings this morning in the Student Union; the full board will convene Friday.

Recipients of the University’s transformational Levine Scholarship appeared in force at festivities surrounding the UNC Board of Governors meetings being held on campus today and Friday.

 Effective at noon today (Feb. 26), UNC Charlotte returns to normal operations, Operating Status 1. Classes will be in session and UNC Charlotte offices will be open. Students, faculty and staff should use judgment about the appropriate course of action in individual circumstances as the weather impact varies across the UNC Charlotte service region.  In all cases, allow significantly more time for travel and exercise caution.  

During the reception at UNC Charlotte Center City, members of the UNC Board of Governors viewed a special video that outlined how the University has grown exponentially, driven by a Big Idea—to provide access to opportunity and intellectual capital that have helped to build one of America’s most vibrant regions.

More than 400 friends of UNC Charlotte joined the UNC Board of Governors at a reception at UNC Charlotte Center City Wednesday night. Committee meetings of the board will take place during the day Feb. 26 on the main campus. More information about the visit is online.

Effective midnight through noon Thursday, Feb. 26, UNC Charlotte will be in Operating Status 3, emergency closure.

Every neighborhood has a story, but often the people who live there don’t know what they are or where to find them. Does it have a special landmark that ought to be preserved? What about an interesting history? Maybe it has environmental treasures or distinctive architectural features.

At two free, public workshops, Charlotte residents can get help learning how to find out those answers. On Tuesday, March 3, and Saturday, March 7, experts will show residents how to become savvy neighborhood sleuths and discover more about the places where they live.

UNC Charlotte students Andrew Helms and Jake Whitaker recently won the 2015 Bassmaster College Classic, held on Lake Keowee in South Carolina.

Helms, a marketing major from Monroe, said, “There were only eight teams invited to this event, and we qualified by winning the national championship (2014 Carhartt Bassmaster College Series National Championship). Though the field was small, we were able to weigh in right before the pros on the biggest stage in bass fishing. This was huge for us, as there were thousands in attendance and also many more watching live online.”

Control activities are the third aspect of COSO standards of internal control examined in a series of articles being published in Inside UNC Charlotte.

Local painter Tommie Robinson is the 2015 Africana Artist-in-Residence; this year’s theme for the residency is “Art, Environment and Race.”