Academic Affairs

For 20 years, UNC Charlotte’s Continuing Education has offered its Meeting and Event Planning Certificate, which has become a premiere program in the region.Recently, a number of event planning professionals and certificate program alumni gathered to celebrate the certificate program’s 20th anniversary. A panel discussion addressed the newest trends in meeting and event planning.

On average, individual households in the 32 counties studied as part of the Urban Institute’s Carolinas Urban-Rural Connection Project give nearly $3,200 each to charities every year.

UNC Charlotte’s Engaged Scholarship Symposium will convene faculty, staff, students and community partners to discuss community engagement practices. This symposium is designed to facilitate creative collaboration across academic units, colleges and departments; to outline best practices and address challenges; and strengthen partnerships.

During the annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition, graduate students have to summarize extensive and complex research or scholarship into a brief, compelling presentation that anyone can understand—in three minutes.This year’s event will be at 4 p.m., Friday, Nov. 15, in Atkins Library, Halton Reading Room. Attendees will be able to vote for their favorite presenters alongside the panel of judges.

More than 800,000 residents of the 32 counties studied as part of the UNC Charlotte Urban Institute’s Carolinas Urban-Rural Connections Project commute to work in a county other than the one in which they live—representing more than $32 billion of the region’s wages.

Volker Wissing, chairman of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and vice minister president of Rhineland- Palatinate, will present “The 30th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall: 1989—The End of History? Learning from History to Succeed in the Future” at 3 p.m., Monday, Nov. 4, in the Barnhardt Student Activity Center, Salon A, as part of the 2019 International Speaker Series.

Akinwumi Ogundiran, a transdisciplinary scholar and professor in the departments of Africana Studies, Anthropology and History, is now a Chancellor’s Professor at UNC Charlotte.

UNC Charlotte and Union County Public Schools administrators joined friends and family of Ellis Reed Parlier on Thursday, Oct. 24, at the Central Academy of Technology and the Arts (CATA) in Monroe, North Carolina, to announce the Reed Parlier Memorial Scholarship.

Students, faculty, staff and community members will have the opportunity to share their thoughts on the April 30 campus shooting and subsequent response through the Niner Nation Remembers Oral History Project. By collecting first-hand accounts from individuals affected by the tragedy, UNC Charlotte will be able to preserve the memories and the vital historical context they provide.Participants can share their experiences in private from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m., Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct. 29-30, in Atkins Library’s Area 49 recording studio on the UNC Charlotte campus.

UNC Charlotte is one of 20 universities selected to join a three-year institutional change effort to develop inclusive faculty recruitment, hiring and retention practices.