Associate Professor of Dance Kim Jones will join 25 higher education faculty in Chicago this month for the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute: Making Modernism: Literature, Dance, and Visual Culture in Chicago, 1893-1955. Funded by the NEH and running from July 18 to Aug.
Derrick Magee has been appointed associate vice chancellor of campus enterprises at N.C. Central University. Magee, a doctoral candidate in the Belk College of Business, will defend his dissertation in fall 2022.
A few weeks ago, I had the unique pleasure of sitting down with Deon Ritchie, facilities and operations specialist for Belk College of Business for over 25 years. What I thought was going to be a typical interview ended up being so much more. I walked away with a sense of awe of her humility, servanthood and perspective on life.
An online MBA, two new bachelor’s degrees and career-enhancing undergraduate and graduate certificate programs lead the academic offerings launching this fall at UNC Charlotte.
Charlotte’s undergraduate elementary teacher preparation program has been named among the best in the nation when it comes to ensuring future elementary teachers have the essential content knowledge and skills they need to teach mathematics.
North Carolina House of Representatives Speaker Tim Moore recently appointed John Anderson Bailey ’94 to the UNC Charlotte Board of Trustees; he will fill an unexpired one-year term, effective July 1.
Malin Pereira has been appointed dean of the Honors College, effective July 1. She currently serves as executive director of the college. The creation of a new deanship and change in reporting structure recognizes the role of honors programming in the University’s strategic plan, as the college’s goal is to recruit, nurture and retain world-class, diverse undergraduates to the University.
Inside the Projective Eye Gallery in The Dubois Center at UNC Charlotte Center City, visitors can see Sekou Cooke's “Close to the Edge: The Birth of Hip-Hop Architecture."
A year in the making, a new installation was completed at the Trailhead Arts District near the CATS Sugar Creek Station. Anchoring the Trailhead Arts District are the Charlotte Art League and the new Independent Picture House.
David Goldfield, UNC Charlotte’s Robert Lee Bailey Professor of History, observes similarities and differences between political events 50 years in the past and their related congressional hearings and those currently taking place in regard to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
The Charlotte Green Initiative student committee selected 24 projects for funding this past academic year. CGI allocates funds from the University’s Student Green Fee, which is supported by full-time students.
Beth Derrick Crigler has been appointed interim vice chancellor for university advancement at UNC Charlotte. In this role, she will be responsible for leading development, alumni engagement, advancement operations, constituent relations, university events and university communications.
