Academic Affairs

Support from the U.S. Economic Development Administration’s EDA Capital Challenge Grant will fund the Charlotte Community Capital Access Investment Initiative.

Meet Grace Stevens ’20, the assistant director of marketing and communication for enrollment communications. For Stevens, every day is different and rewarding in its own way. Learn about her role, the Social Media Ambassador program and why she was nicknamed “Radio.”

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A highlight of commencement is the recognition of individuals for exceptional and distinctive service to the University or the greater community through the awarding of an honorary degree from UNC Charlotte. The Nominations, Honors and Awards Committee is seeking assistance in nominating persons for this honor.

The University’s Board of Trustees has established the following criteria regarding prospective nominees:

UNC Charlotte welcomed a new group of high-achieving and diverse students to campus this fall. The freshman class of 4,157 is the second-largest group of first-year students in the University’s history.

Diane Zablotsky, faculty director of the Levine Scholars Program since 2010, has announced her intention to step down as faculty director at the end of the academic year. Zablotsky will return as a faculty member to the Department of Sociology. 

The 2022 election season is underway. For the UNC Charlotte community, the 49er Democracy Experience offers a dynamic, nonpartisan platform for learning about and engaging in civic life.

UNC Charlotte rose eight spots in the 2022-23 U.S. News & World Report rankings for undergraduate colleges and universities.

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.