General News

A new UNC Charlotte College of Education partnership under way in Union County is allowing a group of teachers to earn a master’s degree in education through a new model that brings that graduate classroom to them.

The pilot program offers 16 teachers in high priority middle and high schools the opportunity to earn a Master of Education at a significantly reduced rate, while collaborating with College of Education professors on site near their home schools.

UNC Charlotte’s Sport Clubs program was the overall winner of the inaugural First in Flight Fight Against Hunger, a statewide canned food drive competition.

For this food drive, 898 student-athletes from campus collected 2,200 pounds of canned food. Approximately 7,150 pounds of canned food were collected by the 11 collegiate sport clubs programs that participated.

Hamid Dabashi from Columbia University will address “Can Non-Europeans Think?” at 3:30 p.m., Monday, Feb. 1, in Fretwell Building, Room 114.

Dabashi, the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature, will bring together historical and theoretical reflections on current affairs and the role of philosophy to argue that, in order to grapple with the problems of humanity today, individuals must eliminate the ethnographic gaze that infects philosophy and casts Arab and other non-Western thinkers as subordinates.

Sebastian Cobarrubias, an assistant professor in the Department of Global, International and Area Studies, will discuss international migration as the first talk in the 2016 Great Decisions Lecture Series sponsored by the Office of International Programs. The presentation will be at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 27, at UNC Charlotte Center City, Room 204.

Edd Hauser, director of the Center for Transportation Policy Studies and the Center for Disaster Studies, recently received the academic Lifetime Achievement in Transportation Research and Education Award from the Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC).

Based on adverse weather conditions in the Charlotte region, the University has moved to Operational Status 3 (OS3), effective immediately. On Jan. 22, classes are cancelled and University offices are closed.

Based on the likelihood of adverse weather, the University will move to Operational Status 2 at midnight tonight. On Jan. 22, classes will be cancelled. University offices will be open, with limited operation.

Forbes has named Chris Tyler, a 2015 mechanical engineering Ph.D. graduate of the Lee College of Engineering, to its 2016 30 Under 30 list.

Choreographer Christal Brown and a nine-member male ensemble will present “The Opulence of Integrity: A Movement Odyssey Exploring the Life and Legacy of Muhammad Ali” at 7:30 p.m., Friday, Jan. 29, in the Robinson Hall for the Performing Arts Belk Theater.

Karen Popp, chair of the Board of Trustees and University alumna, talks about the critical importance of the Connect NC bond proposal to UNC Charlotte and the UNC system.