Eastern Region Campus Compact invites Workshop and Poster Session Proposals for the Fifth Annual Eastern Region Campus Compact Conference: Moving Us Forward: At the Intersection of Community Engagement and Collective Impact, October 14-16, 2015 in Newark, New Jersey. Conference Goals Demonstrate both innovation and broader impact as outcomes of community engagement. Highlight best practices in place-based,… Continue reading…
The Triad Teacher Researchers (TTR) is a network of teachers dedicated to thoughtful teaching and learning. The Network began as a group of four teachers who were looking for a supportive network of teacher researchers in the Triad area with the goal of impacting teacher and student learning through research. The… Continue reading…
Enjoying a UNCG Music performance is always a wonderful experience. You can’t get to a particular performance? It may be one of the many that will be live streamed, so you can enjoy it with the click of mouse. What’s more, for the first time, UNCG will live stream a… Continue reading…
Chancellor Linda P. Brady and NC A&T Chancellor Harold Martin received the Thomas Z. Osborne Distinguished Citizen Award from the Greensboro Partnership at their annual dinner. The award is presented to a citizen who has demonstrated extraordinary service and achievement within the community; it is the highest honor given by… Continue reading…
How best does UNCG foster students as engaged citizens? What are the ways that we mobilize higher education to increase student involvement in public life, nurture democratic practices, and make civic engagement central to student learning? UNCG continues to actively explore these questions, and has committed to strategies to make… Continue reading…
UNCG Assistant Professor Travis Hicks, M.Arch., AIA, IIDA, IDEC, LEED©AP, NCIDQ, is the 2015 Robert L. Sigmon Service-Learning Award recipient. Hosted by North Carolina Campus Compact, the Robert L. Sigmon Service-Learning Award recognizes one faculty person on a member campus who has made significant contributions toward furthering the practice of service-learning. The award is named… Continue reading…
UNCG Authors and Campus Literary Events: MFA Thesis Reading: Matthew Barrett, Abigail Lee, and Mike Ponticoloni Friday, January 30th, 7:00PM St. Mary’s House, 930 Walker Ave., Greensboro Free and open to the public Three writers from the distinguished UNCG MFA program will be reading their work to celebrate their efforts… Continue reading…
Kathy Reichs — best-selling crime writer and inspiration for the Fox TV series “Bones” — will be the guest speaker at the Friends of the UNCG Libraries Annual Dinner Wednesday, April 8. Like her protagonist Temperance Brennan, Reichs is a forensic anthropologist — one of only about a hundred ever certified by… Continue reading…
World War I and World War II figure prominently in the provocative Friends of the UNCG Libraries book discussions scheduled for Spring 2015. Monday, Feb. 9: Friends of the UNCG Libraries Book Discussion – “Regeneration” by Pat Barker, led by Keith Gorman of the University Libraries 4 p.m., Hodges Reading Room,… Continue reading…
Every year, several universities in the United States are selected by the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholars Program to host a speaker of national distinction at their site by offering presentations and colloquiums to students and faculty. This year, UNCG was selected as one of those schools. Prof. David Schmidtz,… Continue reading…
