Student Affairs

The Dean of Students Office is seeking two commencement speakers and two bell ringers for UNC Charlotte’s winter commencement, which is Saturday, Dec. 13, in Halton Arena, located in the Barnhardt Student Activity Center. Faculty and staff are requested to encourage students graduating in December to apply for one of these prestigious honors.

Hypnotist Chris Jones will perform at 7 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 25, in the Student Union, Room 340. This free, public event is being sponsored by the Campus Activities Board.
Originally from Chicago, Jones took a roundabout way to becoming one of today’s most entertaining performers on the college market. In college, he studied sociology and psychology, using magic to connect with other students. After years of performing magic and stand-up comedy at weddings, bars and smoky nightclubs, Jones picked up hypnosis and added it to his routine.

The UNC Charlotte Homecoming Committee is extending a special invitation to faculty and staff to participate in its second football Homecoming Parade and Pep Rally to be held on Friday, Oct. 24.  Any campus department or group  that would like to walk, drive or float in the parade should register online at the Homecoming website by Friday, Sept. 26.

A student organization established earlier this year is preparing to break ground on a community garden to be located near the Storrs Building and the Robinson Hall for the Performing Arts.
Formation of the UNC Charlotte Community Garden resulted from efforts by seniors Jake Emerson, a mathematics major from Gastonia; Kevin Rodengen, an earth sciences major from Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; and Chloe Rodengen, a nursing major who also is from Fort Lauderdale. They worked with other student leaders and faculty and staff members in departments and disciplines across campus.

The University will host the 13th annual Multicultural Leadership Conference from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 11, in the Student Union. Equality and diversity activist and actor R.J. Mitte will be the conference’s keynote speaker.

“Figures in Painting,” an exhibit that showcases artwork from students in the Department of Art & Art History, is on display through Wednesday, Sept. 17, in the Student Union Art Gallery.
The studio course “Figure in Painting” is an intermediate painting class that explores the human form as a vehicle for artistic expression. Students use acrylic paints mixed with a variety of other compatible media to observe and experiment with anatomical structure.

Colleges and universities that receive federal funding must comply with regulations outlined in Title IX of the U.S. Education Amendments of 1972, which have been revised a number of times since their passage.

The University will host a variety of activities in observance of the 13th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C.

Activities sponsored by the Division of Student Affairs include:

NinerTech and the Charlotte 49ers are teaming up for a prize giveaway dubbed the “49th Minute Score.” UNC Charlotte students, faculty and staff can enter at NinerTech, located in the Student Union, for the chance to win a prize package and iPad mini during the 49ers men’s and women’s soccer season.
All names are entered into a drawing for the game-day giveaways. At every Charlotte 49ers men’s and womens’s soccer game, one lucky winner will receive a NinerTech prize package.

Comedian Byron Bowers kicks off the Campus Activities Board’s monthly Friday Night Live series at 7 p.m., Friday, Sept. 5, in the Cone University Center’s After Hours Lounge.
Bowers uses his own experiences to create a comedy routine that crisscrosses a multicultural socioeconomic landscape. Raised in a lower-middle class black community in Atlanta, Bowers was bused into a more affluent, predominantly white school as a child. The comic uses these experiences as a launching point for his routines.