Academic Affairs

Three undergraduate students were honored for outstanding posters at the fourth annual Summer Research Symposium as part of the Charlotte Research Scholars program. More than 100 students competed in the competition presenting on a broad range of topics of scholarly inquiry.

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 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.

Rick Hudson, senior project manager for the Data Science Initiative, will be the guest on the July 9 edition of “The Live Wire,” Inside UNC Charlotte’s streaming webcast. He will discuss the Data Science Initiative and SOPHI, a large data repository that is being developed.

Watch “The Live Wire” via computer or mobile devices starting at 2 p.m.

A SOAR leader conducts a campus tour for incoming students and their parents. SOAR is the Student Orientation, Advising and Registration program that helps new students transition to UNC Charlotte and allows them to meet with an academic advisor and register for fall semester classes.

Outstanding instruction is a hallmark of the UNC Charlotte experience, and that extends to the large number of online offerings available through the University’s Distance Education Office.

Four faculty members recently completed online course redesigns to obtain certification of having met Quality Matters standards, a national, faculty-centered, peer-review process considered the gold standard for how distance education courses are structured. Quality Matters was started by MarylandOnline Inc., a consortium of colleges and universities.

Since learning about the University’s migration to Google Calendar and Gmail, Laura Williams, interim controller in financial services, has tapped into Google technology to encourage a collaborative working environment among her team members.

The City of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County recently released the updated Charlotte-Mecklenburg Quality of Life Explorer, an interactive online tool that can be used to explore social, housing, economic, environmental and safety conditions in neighborhoods across Charlotte-Mecklenburg.

The ADVANCE Faculty Affairs and Diversity Office recently welcomed “The Op-Ed Project” to UNC Charlotte. The two-day workshop focused on enlarging the pool of women and underrepresented minority experts who are accessing opinion forums and discovering effective ways to “get their feet in the door of the idea marketplace.”

Fifteen young leaders from high schools across the United States, including 11 from North Carolina, have been named to the sixth class of UNC Charlotte’s Levine Scholars Program. They will join the University starting with the fall 2015 semester.