College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

A new book from UNC Charlotte educators and researchers examines the desegregation and resegregation of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools during the past 40 years, putting education reform in a political and economic context.

“Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: School Desegregation and Resegregation in Charlotte,” is edited by Roslyn Mickelson, a UNC Charlotte professor; Stephen Samuel Smith, a Winthrop University professor; and Amy Hawn Nelson, director of research for the UNC Charlotte Urban Institute and director of the Institute for Social Capital Inc.

Charles Brody, associate dean for academic affairs in the UNC Charlotte College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, will be vice president of academic affairs at Misericordia University in Dallas, Penn., effective July 1.

Historian Shepherd McKinley’s book “Stinking Stones and Rocks of Gold: Phosphate, Fertilizer and Industrialization in Postbellum South Carolina” was named the winner of the South Carolina Historical Society’s 2014 George Rogers Jr. Book Award as the best book about South Carolina history published last year.

Paula Connolly, associate professor of English, will discuss her work “Slavery in American Children’s Literature, 1790-2010” at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 24, at the J. Murrey Atkins Library. This talk is part of the Personally Speaking series, presented by the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences and the library.

“Slavery in American Children’s Literature, 1790-2010” is considered the first comprehensive study of its kind. The work examines the politicizing nature of children’s literature and explores how political ideologies intersect childhood with nationhood.

Frank Pasquale, author of the top-selling “The Black Box Society:  The Secret Algorithms that Control Money and Information” is the featured speaker for the fourth annual TIAA-CREF Lecture scheduled for 7 p.m., Thursday March 12, at UNC Charlotte Center City.

The lecture will be preceded by a reception beginning at 6 p.m., and a dessert reception will follow at 8 p.m.

Reservations are required.

A UNC Charlotte team won third place in the recent Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl Competition; the contest designed to consider complex, contemporary ethical issues.

Teams from more than 100 universities and colleges had competed in regional competitions earlier this year, and 32 regional finalist teams came together for the national event in Costa Mesa, Calif. This is the highest a UNC Charlotte team has ever placed.

Local painter Tommie Robinson is the 2015 Africana Artist-in-Residence; this year’s theme for the residency is “Art, Environment and Race.”

The Department of Languages and Cultural Studies in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences will hold a cross-cultural undergraduate student conference on Japanese-American relations from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 10, in the Cone University Center, McKnight Hall.

North Carolina is experiencing heavy Latino migration, and UNC Chapel Hill anthropologist Hannah Gill will discuss what the migration means to the state and the immigrants in the Levine Lecture “New Roots in the Old North State” at 6 p.m., Monday, March 9, at the Levine Museum of the New South.

Gill is author of “North Carolina and the Latino Migration Experience: New Roots in the Old North State.” She also is director of the Latino Migration Project at UNC Chapel Hill, a public educational program on Latin American immigration and integration in North Carolina.

“Visible Man: The Life of Henry Dumas” by Jeffrey Leak, associate professor of English, is the nonfiction recipient of a 2015 Literary Award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA).