Chancellor

UNC Charlotte Chancellor Sharon L. Gaber and several University alumni and board members are on the 2023 Business North Carolina Power List. 

Gaber, recognized for the third consecutive year in the education category, told the publication her biggest inspiration has been her mom. “She was a hard-working, single parent who encouraged and believed in me.” 

On April 28, UNC Charlotte will dedicate a permanent campus memorial to honor those who died, who were injured or who were present during a campus shooting April 30, 2019.

The second stage of UNC Charlotte’s 10-year reaffirmation of accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges is complete. This follows a campus visit March 21-23 by the on-site reaffirmation committee. 

Earlier this month, the UNC Charlotte Staff Council held its annual Chili, Soup and Cornbread Cook-off.

First place winner for Best Chili or Soup was Shayauna Newsom, Office of Transition and Success Initiatives.  Sharon Scarborough, urbanCore, and Rusti Deal, facilities management, placed second and third, respectively

Scarborough won the Best Cornbread contest, with Dannie Mirovich, PaTS in second.

Fan favorite winners were:

Retired Bank of America executive Charles Bowman is bringing his expertise to UNC Charlotte as an executive-in-residence. 

In this role, Bowman — who retired from BofA in April 2022 after more than 25 years — will help to further connect the University in the Charlotte region.

UNC Charlotte has strengthened its reputation as one of the nation’s top providers of online education, rising to No. 4 (tie) on U.S. News & World Report’s 2023 Best Online Bachelor’s Degrees ranking.

To support the growing entrepreneurial ecosystem on campus and in the Charlotte region, UNC Charlotte is aligning its educational and outreach efforts through the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

UNC Charlotte’s business and innovation partners returned to the University Wednesday, Dec. 7, after a three-year, pandemic-related hiatus for the Research and Business Partners Celebration hosted by the Division of Research.

UNC Charlotte Chancellor Sharon L. Gaber is launching two new faculty and staff initiatives that will focus on ensuring the University remains a great place to work.

In the recently released 2023 Times Higher Education World University rankings, Charlotte climbed 33 spots among U.S. universities.