Education professor emerita Theresa Perez has died

Theresa Perez, professor emerita, Department of Middle, Secondary and K-12 Education, died Jan. 13, 2019, in California.

Perez dedicated 14 years to UNC Charlotte, where she established the Teaching English as a Second Language program and served as a tireless advocate for educational equity.

Read more on the Cato College of Education website.

Photo: Perez with Provost Joan Lorden.