General News

If it’s never too early to start thinking about college, then 145 local third graders are off to a good start after acting as honorary 49ers during the annual “Literacy Alive! Read-in” at UNC Charlotte.

Hosted by the Kappa Delta Pi International Honor Society in Education and offered as an extension of the North Star Reading Partners Initiative, “Literacy Alive!” is meant to be a first step in preparing students to be college ready. Through a series of hands-on events, students from Newell Elementary got a firsthand look at college life and the importance of education.

The UNC Charlotte Internal Audit Department defines its success by helping other University employees and campus units do their jobs more effectively and efficiently.

Internal audit is ever-changing, and so are the proficiencies that it takes for an internal auditor to be successful. Technical skills are important and necessary, but soft skills are important, too. The seven attributes of a highly effective internal auditor are:

UNC President Margaret Spellings has offered the following comment on her response to the U.S. Department of Justice regarding federal nondiscrimination law and the Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act (HB2), as well as legal action initiated today by the department:

UNC Charlotte is working with the management of Arcadia Student Living, a private, non-University apartment complex, to assist the roughly 90 student residents who were asked to relocate in order for engineers to evaluate structural issues in a building.

The University’s Housing and Residence Life Office has prepared six available spaces on campus for Arcadia residents who need temporary housing due to the structural issues that are displacing them involuntarily.

Learn more about how to cultivate life indoors at “Healthy Houseplants,” scheduled for 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Wednesday, June 1, at the McMillan Greenhouse.

Paula Gross and Meredith Hebden from the UNC Charlotte Botanical Gardens will lead this class, which will offer tips on the best houseplants for low, medium and high light. Soil mixes for plants, watering and fertilizing will be discussion topics, too.

Learn more about the work-life solutions available as part of employee benefits, including ComPsych’s “On-demand Training.”

J. Garvey Pyke, director of the Center for Teaching and Learning, was elected chair of the UNC Faculty and Academic Developers Consortium.

Collaborating with faculty development leaders across all 17 UNC campuses and supported by UNC General Administration, the UNC Faculty and Academic Development Consortium serves as a conduit for collaboration, common resources and shared advocacy with the goal of enhancing faculty and academic development in higher education for the UNC system.

Outstanding student-athletes were honored recently at an annual awards banquet held by the Charlotte 49ers and the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. Team MVP and Coaches’ Awards, as well as department-wide academic honors, were presented.

The 49ers football program awarded its Offensive MVP to all-Conference USA rusher Kalif Phillips and its Defensive MVP to leading tackler Nick Cook. The Jon Richardson Football Scholarship was awarded to defensive lineman Brandon Banks.

 In recognition of national Small Business Week, Congresswoman Alma Adams (NC-12) toured UNC Charlotte’s Partnership, Outreach and Research to Accelerate Learning (PORTAL) facility on Wednesday, May 4. During her visit, she met with Robert Wilhelm, vice chancellor for research and economic development; Paul Wetenhall, president of Ventureprise; and Henry Rock, executive director of City Startup Labs.

Lebra Nance focuses on students and views her role as one to assist them to achieve their goals of earning a degree and becoming engineers.

As a student services specialist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science in the William States Lee College of Engineering, Nance is a point of contact for current and prospective undergraduates.