Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: ‘What are you doing for others?” The annual MLK Day of Service at UNCG on Monday, January 19th is an opportunity to answer that question and to strengthen our community through service. Every year dozens of UNCG students … Continued
UNCG Athletics will welcome in over 2,500 middle school students to Wednesday’s game against Greensboro College at 11:30am at the Greensboro Coliseum. GREENSBORO – The Greensboro College-UNCG men’s basketball game on Wednesday will be part of the second annual Guilford County Schools Education Day and will include about 2,500 … Continued
All of the following events are hosted by the UNCG Libraries and are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.Thursday, February 5: Charlie Lovett, author of First Impressions: A Novel of Old Books, Unexpected Love, and Jane Austen. 7 p.m. Hodges Reading Room, second floor Jackson Library Monday, February 9: Friends … Continued
As you will notice, November is PACKED with Entrepreneurial Event across the Triad. This is partly due to Global Entrepreneurship Week being in the third week. Global Entrepreneurship Week is the world’s largest celebration of the innovators and job creators who launch startups that bring ideas to life, drive economic growth and … Continued
Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Week (H+HAW) is an annual week of events that takes place the last full week before Thanksgiving. The purpose is to raise awareness of hunger and homelessness on a local and national level. The Greensboro & High Point Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) is currently ranked fourth … Continued
UNCG Theatre’s upcoming production of The Velveteen Rabbit is set to open on Thursday, November 13th at 7:30 pm in Taylor Theatre. The play is adapted by UNCG Theatre faculty member Janet Allard based on the story by Margery Williams. The performance is directed by UNCG Theatre faculty member, Rachel Briley, and boasts a design concept from faculty and student … Continued
2015 marks the 17th year of NC Campus Compact’s annual conference for community engagement faculty, staff, researchers, community partners, and graduate students who want to gain skills, knowledge and best practice models for a spectrum of civic engagement pedagogies and activities. The 2015 keynote speaker is Dr. Rick Battistoni, Professor of Political Science … Continued
The new edition of North Carolina Campus Compact’s online, peer-reviewed journal Partnerships: A Journal of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement is now available. Access to the full-text articles is free, but viewers must register. The current issue (Vol. 5, No. 2, 2014) has articles on international service-learning, a community-based research project at an urban … Continued
The School of Education at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro is pleased to announce the “return” of the Teaching Fellows program to its campus with the newly created UNCG Teacher Education Fellows Program beginning in Fall 2015. The Teacher Education Fellows Program is a campus-based scholarship and enrichment … Continued
UNCG’s Harriet Elliott Lecture Series presents “Inside the Beltway: Perspectives on Polarization from Congressional Staff.” The panel discussion will be Tuesday, Nov. 11, 7:30 p.m. in the School of Education Building, Room 120. The discussion among current and former Congressional staff will look at the challenges of working in a … Continued