General News

The 2015-16 undergraduate and graduate catalogs are both available online. The two publications were developed using Acalog, a new catalog content management system.

Acalog provides for a database-driven catalog, meaning that the content of each page is dynamically created for every user upon each visit. It is integrated with Banner, the University’s student information system and with the forthcoming Curriculog, a curriculum management software.

Acalog features include:

UNC Charlotte student Hunter Aldridge won first place in the final round of the Upper College Men Division of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) National Student Auditions on July 7. Aldridge, a tenor, studies with Brian Arreola, assistant professor of voice and director of the Department of Music opera workshop program.

Accounting Professor L. Howard Godfrey is being honored by the Charlotte business community for his academic leadership and legacy. He will receive the first Academic Leadership Award during the Charlotte Business Journal’s CFO of the Year Awards July 22. 

This week marks a significant anniversary for UNC Charlotte. On July 15, Chancellor Philip L. Dubois will have been on the job for 10 years.

Dubois was formally named the University’s fourth chancellor on March 18, 2005. He assumed the helm roughly four months later, after concluding his eight-year tenure as president of the University of Wyoming. His return to UNC Charlotte could be characterized as a homecoming, as Dubois first arrived on campus in 1991 as the chief academic officer, a post he held until departing for Wyoming in 1997.

The College of Education’s literacy professors are among the most prolific scholars in the country in their field, according to a recent study.

Published in the journal Reading Psychology, the article looked at the productivity of literacy faculty nationwide from 2006 to 2012. The rankings were based on the number of times professors appeared in nine prominent research journals, adjusted for the size of the literacy faculty at the particular college.

Charlotte 49ers football will make the move to the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) this fall as the team enters Conference USA competition. Fans can be part of the game-day atmosphere at Richardson Stadium as a host of ticket options are being offered.

UNC Charlotte shares some pretty impressive company in a new listing from U.S. News and World Report. The story focuses on the educational background of the CEOs from the top 100 companies on this year’s Fortune 500 list, which ranks companies in terms of revenues.

Only a handful of colleges can claim multiple CEOs on the top 100 list, including UNC Charlotte with two. No institution had more than three.

The UNC Charlotte Staff Council has been part of University governance since 1976. To acknowledge the former council leaders, the 2014-15 Staff Council commissioned a plaque to honor them for “their generosity, support and guidance to our campus.”

The plaque was unveiled during a luncheon today, held as part of the annual Staff Council retreat at the Harris Alumni Center.

One of UNC Charlotte’s Titan Arums or “corpse flowers” is preparing to bloom in the next seven to 10 days, so it is time to give it a name.

“Amorphophallus titanum or the Titan Arum, which is native to Sumatra, is considered one of the rock stars of the plant world,” said Paula Gross, interim director of the UNC Charlotte Botanical Gardens.

The yet to be named flower is one of two Titan Arums the Botanical Gardens purchased from California in 2008; at that time, the plants were roughly five years old.

Following the massacre of nine black worshipers at historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, faculty members from UNC Charlotte’s College of Liberal Arts & Sciences have been providing context and commentary locally, nationally and internationally. They are drawing upon their extensive expertise and research, including books and other materials they have published on related subjects.