The mission of the North Carolina Teaching Fellows Program is to recruit and prepare the state’s most promising students to teach in a STEM or a special education area and to serve high-need schools.
Three festivals reflect the diversity of UNC System arts initiatives. North Carolinians can celebrate spring with NCCU’s jazz festival. In the thick of the summer, they can head to the beach for UNC Wilmington’s multimedia Lumina Festival in July. And they can kick off the fall season at Western Carolina University’s Mountain Heritage Day in September.
There’s more than one way to lose yourself at The North Carolina Arboretum in Asheville. Its scale is grand. Under the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains, ten miles of trails wind through 65 acres of ornate gardens and 369 acres of woodlands. The sheer size of things makes it easy to wander well off life’s beaten path. Amazement is in store for anyone who comes. Those otherwise accustomed to shrubbery that cowers against suburban walls will be astonished by the variety of sights … from the native flame azaleas that tower overhead to the Winter Lights show, so spectacular it draws visitors from every state.
ny UNC System institutions organize formal “alternative breaks” for students who want to help others. Spring and fall breaks are critical to student success. The respite from classes always gives students a much-needed opportunity to catch up and recharge before the end-of-semester pile up of projects, papers, and exams.
Community Engagement Plans Improve Student Success Peta-Gaye Brooks came to North Carolina Central University with a hunch that she might like to teach math: she knew that she wanted to make a difference, but her plans weren’t yet concrete. For some students, a lack of clear direction in a college career may lead to disruptive …
In Winston-Salem, the R.J. Reynolds stacks that once billowed grand plumes now stand smokeless. The company’s Bailey Power Plant, which had fueled manufacturing processes and filled the massive chimneys with particulate, became obsolete when the tobacco industry dwindled. In 1997, the facility was shuttered. But Camel City isn’t a ghost town by any stretch of …
UNC System Institutions Deliver Ambitious Engagement Plans No neighborhood offers a clearer picture of North Carolina’s prosperity than Eastover, Charlotte. The sidewalks are painstakingly lined with crepe myrtles and willow oaks. Each street offers an assortment of massive Tudor houses, Greek revivals, and French provincials. It takes a lot of wealth to maintain these homes, …
NC Teaching Fellows Program Accepting Applications Ally Gagnon is a first-year student at North Carolina State University with a penchant for the sciences … all of them. With her talents and a particular interest in biology, she could easily settle into a plumb career in pharmaceuticals somewhere in the Research Triangle Park. Instead, her professional …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 9, 2018 CHAPEL HILL, NC – Two UNC System faculty members received the 2018 Governor James E. Holshouser, Jr. Award for Excellence in Public Service: Dr. David Westling, from Western Carolina University, and Dr. Walt Wolfram, from North Carolina State University. The pair of awards were presented at today’s regular meeting …
A fierce wind blew snowflakes past the windows of a small home in the Kenilworth neighborhood in Asheville on March 21, where volunteers with Blue Horizons, a new organization providing a comprehensive hub of energy-efficiency programs, worked to seal windows and doors, keeping that cold winter air at bay. It was a group effort not …