Cato College of Education

The Cato College of Education has joined the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) Holmes Scholars Program and selected two doctoral students, Deondra Gladney and Stephanie Jones-Fosu, as UNC Charlotte’s first recipients.

The Exceptional Children’s Assistance Center (ECAC), in collaboration with the Cato College of Education’s Department of Special Education and Child Development, recently presented a daylong free training for parents of children with disabilities. The workshop, “Parents as Leaders: Taking the Next Step–Telling Your Story,” was led by Beverly Roberts, Aimee Combs and Rowena Barker of the ECAC along with Professor Donna Sacco from the Cato College.

The UNC Charlotte Mu Tau Beta chapter of the international counseling honor society Chi Sigma Iota recently honored three outstanding graduate students and two faculty members in the Department of Counseling.

It has been almost a year since Tim Rogers lost his daughter, Polly, in a bus accident in Charlotte. His many friends at UNC Charlotte, touched by the life that Polly Rogers lived, are helping Rogers honor his daughter by building a sensory garden within UNC Charlotte’s Botanical Gardens.

The U.S. News & World Report’s 2020 list of Best Graduate Schools rankings are out, and once again, UNC Charlotte recorded a number of superlatives.

A new public elementary school developed, supported and operated by education experts at UNC Charlotte will aim to expand educational opportunities and boost student achievement starting in August 2019.

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper’s visit to UNC Charlotte on Wednesday, March 13, provided an opportunity for the state’s chief executive to learn more about the Charlotte Teacher Early College (CTEC) and how the University is helping to bolster the teacher pipeline for the region and state.

Richard Lambert, professor of educational leadership in the Cato College of Education, is the 2019 recipient of the Harshini V. de Silva Graduate Mentor Award.

“Intelligent Lives,” a documentary by award-winning filmmaker Dan Habib, will have its Charlotte premiere Tuesday, March 26, at UNC Charlotte’s Cone University Center.

Kathy Obear, founder of the Center for Transformation and Change, will visit campus Wednesday and Thursday, March 13-14, to deliver two public presentations.

At 6 p.m., March 13, Obear will address “Recognizing and Engaging Dynamics of Race and Racism: Our Role and Responsibility as White Change Agents.” On March 14, at 1:30 p.m., she will present “Recognizing and Responding to Microaggressions on Campus.” Both talks will be in the Popp Martin Student Union Movie Theater.