General News

The University Botanical Gardens’ annual Valentine’s Day Orchid Sale will be 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Thursday and Friday, Feb. 12-13, and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 14, at the McMillan Greenhouse.

Three student teams from UNC Charlotte will compete this week at the 2015 University of North Carolina Social Entrepreneurship Conference.

Now in its third year, the UNC Social Entrepreneurship Conference engages students, faculty and entrepreneurs from across the state to identify North Carolina’s social problems and take a business-oriented approach to solve them.

UNC Charlotte will host a U.S. Department of State EducationUSA Leadership Institute Friday, Feb. 13, through Wednesday, Feb. 25. It will bring 15 educators to Charlotte to explore opportunities for capacity-building and international collaboration in the area of institutional structures to support inbound and outbound student mobility. 

UNC Charlotte is participating in Recyclemania, a national recycling competition and benchmarking tool. College and university programs use this event to promote waste reduction activities on their campuses.

During a 10-week period (Feb. 1 through April 4), schools report recycling and trash data; institutions are then ranked by the ones that collect the largest amount of recyclables per capita, along with various other categories.

Heather Brown, executive director of the Women + Girls Research Alliance, was named co-editor of the Journal of Research and Practice for Literacy, Secondary and Basic Education. The scholarly work, housed in the Commission on Adult Basic Education at Rutgers University, is a major voice that links research to practice in adult literacy and basic education for more than 35 years.

A medical professional and Serving in Mission (SIM) missionaries who were central in the U.S. response to the Ebola virus crisis in West Africa will speak at 6:30 p.m., Monday, Feb. 16, at UNC Charlotte Center City.

The free community conversation “Fighting Ebola in West Africa: The Charlotte Connection” will feature Debbie Eisenhut, a SIM surgeon with the ELWA Hospital in Liberia; Nancy Writebol, a SIM missionary and Ebola survivor; and her husband David Writebol, also a SIM missionary.

Joyce Dalsheim, assistant professor in the Department of Global, International and Area Studies, will discuss sectarianism in the Middle East as the fifth speaker in the 2015 Great Decisions lecture series.  This free, public presentation is scheduled for 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 11, at UNC Charlotte Center City.

The Office of Academic Services offers free workshops to University advisors on a variety of topics. Participants are requested to register online for session(s) they plan to attend; email the Office of Academic Services (academicservices@uncc.edu) with any questions. 

Associate registrar Will Espin once worked for Donald Trump—and he’s quick to point out he wasn’t fired.

The former Trump Taj Mahal vice president actually retired from the casino industry and returned to North Carolina. He enrolled at UNC Charlotte to finish an undergraduate degree he originally started at UNC Chapel Hill. After completing his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, he earned an M.B.A. in 2007.

UNC Charlotte full-time faculty members are encouraged to participate in a survey of faculty job satisfaction as part of the national research program Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE), which has operated from the Harvard Graduate School of Education since 2003.