General News

The University’s 49er Finish Program recently was named a 2015 Model of Excellence in the winter edition of University Business magazine.

“UNC Charlotte created a concierge service that caters to a tough demographic: students who dropped out during their senior year,” said University Business senior editor Tim Goral. “The program’s communications are tailored to individual former students, finding unique solutions for a pervasive problem, one person at a time.”

Shannon Sullivan’s Personally Speaking presentation on the book “Good White People: The Problem with Middle-Class White Anti-Racism” will be streamed live on Inside UNC Charlotte starting at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 10.

Sullivan is a professor of philosophy and health psychology; she dentifies “white middle-class goodness” as attitudes common among well-meaning white liberals, each serving to establish a lack of racism:

John Quiñones, anchor of ABC’s “What Would You Do?,” one of TV’s highest-rated newsmagazines, will speak at 7 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 12, in Cone University Center, McKnight Hall.

His presentation is for the Forty-niner Forum Speaker Series, sponsored by the Center for Leadership Development; it is free to all students, faculty and staff with a UNC Charlotte ID. This event is open to the general public, too.

UNC Charlotte is one of the 125 four-year institutions to make the Military Times “Best for Vets: Colleges 2016” rankings.

An annual survey in its six year, the Military Times rankings provide the most comprehensive school-by-school assessment of veteran and military student services and rates of academic achievement.

The University Career Center will hold an Education Career Fair from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Friday, Nov. 20, in the Barnhardt Student Activity Center. Organizers expect more than 60 schools and districts to be represented at this event.

UNC Charlotte’s latest piece of public artwork, “Aperture,” was formally dedicated at a ceremony on Thursday, Nov. 5, near Hechenbleikner Lake.

The creation of artist John Medwedeff, the new artwork is a steel sculpture that is mounted on a bearing, which can be rotated to present different views of the lake and surrounding campus buildings.

Longtime University benefactor Irwin “Ike” Belk, who commissioned the work, was unable to attend the dedication ceremony. He was represented by his son, Carl Belk.

A pedestrian safety zone surrounds the Belk Tower, and the zone will remain until the tower is dismantled during winter break. Campus leaders now are focused on planning to revitalize what will be known as Belk Plaza.

LandDesign, a Charlotte-based urban design and landscape architecture firm, has been hired to provide recommendations for an improved aesthetic design of the quadrangle that is located in the historic core of the main campus.

Junior Angelica Rose Brown has been recognized for outstanding leadership and service by North Carolina Campus Compact, a statewide network of colleges and universities with a shared commitment to community engagement. She is a recipient of the network’s Community Impact Award honoring one student leader at each member school.

The Niner Student Pantry, established in fall 2014, recently held a grand opening for its new location, a house at 1224 John Kirk Drive. Learn more about the pantry through this short video.

Sixty UNC Charlotte students who are enrolled in Spanish language classes caught a glimpse of what it means to live in poverty in a foreign country, struggling to survive with limited language skills.

During the poverty simulation, conducted in partnership with Crisis Assistance Ministry, the students were organized into “family” groups of three to six people with specific background stories and roles. They could only speak Spanish during the simulation and had to complete tasks while overcoming obstacles.