The conversation “I am a Man! Black, Male and Gay” will be at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, May 21, at UNC Charlotte Center City. It is the final installment of the year-long series of candid community discussions on the relevance of the American black male in the 21st century.
UNC Charlotte is one of the cosponsors for a conference that will draw hundreds of computer coders, developers and students on Thursday, May 28, at the Harvey Gantt Center for African-American Arts+Culture.
In recognition of National Police Week, the UNC Charlotte Staff Council recently delivered coffee and donuts to the University’s Police and Public Safety Department.
College of Education professor Spencer Salas is in India working with the U.S. State Department to train people to teach English in the capital New Delhi.
For three weeks, Salas will wind his way through Delhi’s most disadvantaged neighborhoods, working with secondary school instructors to improve the way they teach English.
A rowdy mob walked shoulder to shoulder with Dorothy Counts-Scoggins as she neared the doors of Harding High. Some yelled slurs, threw rocks or spat. It was the first day of class in 1957, and integration had started in Mecklenburg County.
The Office of Extended Academic Programs offers numerous training opportunities. Discounts of approximately 50 percent are available for UNC Charlotte faculty and staff. For more information, call 704-687-8900 or email ceregistration@uncc.edu.
Full-time employees who have earned a bachelor’s degree can apply easily for admission as a post-baccalaureate (non-degree) student without any standardized test, transcript or recommendation requirements.
Alternatively, they could apply to a graduate certificate program, many of which do not require a standardized test.
Derrick Griffith, a UNC Charlotte alumnus who was an outstanding student leader in the early 1990s, has been identified as one of seven people killed in a train derailment in Philadelphia.
The Charlotte Teachers Institute (CTI) has welcomed its new cohort of 104 Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) teachers into its innovative, interdisciplinary seminars for 2015.
UNC Charlotte broke ground May 12 on a new residence hall dedicated to housing students of the Levine Scholars Program and the Honors College. The new facility will be known as Levine Hall, in honor of Sandra and Leon Levine. Through their foundation, the Levines have committed more than $18 million to the Levine Scholars Program, which began in 2009.
Phillip Brown, internal communications manager in the University’s Public Relations Office, recently won a Gold Hermes Award for publication writing for the article “Trailblazers Turn the Tassel.” The feature was published in the second quarter 2014 edition of the UNC Charlotte magazine.
