General News

Scott D. Vandervelde, Ph.D., has joined UNC Charlotte as director of the Turner School of Accountancy in the Belk College of Business.

Vandervelde, who was an academic coordinator and professor in the University of South Carolina’s Master of Accountancy Program for 20 years, began his duties July 1.

As a recipient of a DeJoy-Woś Family Foundation Scholarship, Elizabeth Smith spent her summer in Washington, D.C., taking classes and interning at the American Legion, as part of the Fund for American Studies. 

She was one of nine scholarship recipients, hailing from colleges and universities in North Carolina and Estonia that received full tuition and housing to attend the program. Smith, a first-generation college student, took an economics class and a public policy class at George Mason University.

The University’s Career Center will hold its Fall Career and Internship Fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Friday, Sept. 23, in the Barnhardt Student Activity Center.

This is the largest career fair of the fall and is open to all major and class levels. Representatives from more than 230 employers are expected to attend, including a number of Fortune 100 companies. These employers, representing a range of industries, will be seeking applicants for full-time jobs, internships and co-ops.

UNC Charlotte’s Women + Girls Research Alliance, a unit of urbanCORE, will hold the community event “Taking Space without Apology: A Women and Girls Leadership Café” from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 25, at the Barnhardt Student Activity Center Salons.

Creating supportive learning environments that enable students to succeed is a hallmark of Charlotte faculty members, and this year’s nominees for the University’s teaching excellence awards exemplify that commitment.

As part of its new strategic plan, UNC Charlotte has established a commitment to leading in equity and engagement. One of the many ways the University is accomplishing this goal for the Charlotte region is through the creation of a new Diversity, Equity and Inclusion certificate offered by the School of Professional Studies.

Tehia Glass has joined UNC Charlotte’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion as inclusive excellence executive fellow for faculty development.

Charlotte faculty members who are interested in sharing their research with a broader audience should apply to be a 2023 seminar leader with the Charlotte Teachers Institute.

CTI is an educational partnership among UNC Charlotte, Johnson C. Smith University and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools to strengthen teaching and learning through collaboration, creativity, leadership and content knowledge. 

Retired Charlotte 49ers men’s tennis coach Jim Boykin was inducted into the North Carolina Tennis Hall of Fame. Boykin, who came to the Queen City in 1993, amassed 200 career victories, before stepping away from the program following the 2010 dual match season.

The Gambrell Faculty Fellows program has named a new cohort of scholars to help illuminate the way to a more equitable community. Researchers will receive funding for projects focused on topics from challenges facing students with disabilities at UNC Charlotte to how Black women business owners have coped with the stresses of the pandemic.