CHAPEL HILL – Officials at UNC-Chapel Hill, Appalachian State and UNC-Charlotte are to be commended for holding off on resumption of in-person classes. UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz and Provost Robert Blouin announced last week that classes will still resume Jan. 19, but in-person classes will not begin until Feb. 8. “We are making these… READ MORE
BOG recognizes UNC Charlotte, UNCW professors with Holshouser Awards
CHAPEL HILL (October 22, 2020) – The UNC Board of Governors recognized professors from UNC Charlotte and UNC Wilmington today with the 2019 Governor James E. Holshouser Awards for Excellence in Public Service. DR. MARK WEST, a Professor of English at UNC Charlotte, is a pioneer in children’s literature and a passionate advocate for early-childhood literacy,… READ MORE
Roper on UNC Charlotte: ‘A horrific event’
CHAPEL HILL – A day after visiting UNC Charlotte following shootings that left two students dead and four injured, Interim UNC System President William L. Roper balanced his sympathy for the victims with praise for the response by UNC Charlotte. “It is a horrific event that one wishes never had happened, never could happen in… READ MORE
Mourning with Charlotte
CHARLOTTE – It’s not just another day in America. We join the UNC Charlotte community in mourning the loss of life Tuesday of two students. We hope for the recovery of the four students who were injured and healing of the entire UNC Charlotte community. We join schools across the nation in feeling the loss of… READ MORE
47% transfer students at UNC Charlotte
CHARLOTTE – There’s more and more talk these days of students starting their post-secondary education at a community college, then transferring to a four-year university. And UNC Charlotte Chancellor Philip Dubois welcomes it. “Of our incoming class of new students … about 47 percent are transfer students,” Dubois says in the accompanying video. “And those transfer… READ MORE
Wake up, Charlotte – here they come!
CHARLOTTE – UNC Charlotte calls itself North Carolina’s urban research university – and it will feel even more urban next spring when light rail connects center-city Charlotte with campus. “We just think it’s going to be a tremendous opportunity for the city to get to know us – particularly coming out for athletic events like… READ MORE
What motivates someone to teach?
CHARLOTTE – The pay isn’t much. The working conditions can be rough. Yet some feel driven to teach. “Teaching is one of the most important professions right now,” Dean Ellen McIntyre of UNC Charlotte’s Cato College of Education says in the accompanying video. “There’s really hardly a profession as important and as honorable.” State officials… READ MORE
Cultivating young teachers early
CHARLOTTE – In August, UNC Charlotte launched the first of its kind in the nation – a high school and early college for 9th graders who want to become teachers. As North Carolina and other states confront a shrinking pipeline of future teachers, the Charlotte Teacher Early College is an attempt to find a solution…. READ MORE
‘Anybody who can touch the life of a kid’
CHARLOTTE – North Carolina is now the 9th largest state in America – yet it saw a 30% decline in enrollment in the state’s colleges of education from 2010-2015.1 “There’s a teacher pipeline problem pretty much nationally. It’s pretty acute in North Carolina,” Dean Ellen McIntyre of the Cato College of Education at UNC Charlotte… READ MORE
‘She saw something in me’
CHARLOTTE – Most of us had a favorite teacher – one who made a difference in our lives. Dean Ellen McIntyre of the Cato College of Education at UNC Charlotte talks about her favorites in the accompanying video, starting with her third-grade teacher. “She was so fair. I had had a previous teacher who was… READ MORE