Victor Mack, director of the Cato College of Education Office of Educational Outreach, received a 2022 Phi Kappa Phi Literacy Grant to establish the 100 Ways to Nutritional Literary program. https://inside.charlotte.edu/news-features/2022-08-17/mack-receives-national-gra…

Mental Wellness luncheon with Deona Frierson. Event

The African and African American Faculty/Staff Caucus will be hosting the Annual Diversity Reception November 8, 2021. The reception will be held at the Hauser Alumni Pavilion, 8931 Cameron Blvd, Charlotte, NC 28262. Please RSVP by November 1, 2021.

Associate provost of Urban Research and Community Engagement, Byron White is recognized as one of Pride Magazine’s Best of the Best for 2021. Byron White recognized as one of Pride Magazine’s Best of the Best for 2021

Mary T. Harper, Ph.D., who played an important role in mentoring and teaching students at UNC Charlotte, developing African American studies at the University and in preserving the African American story in the Charlotte community, died on Oct. 1, 2020. University Remembers Lasting Legacy Of Mary Harper

Gov. Roy Cooper has appointed UNC Charlotte social work professor Sonyia Richardson, Ph.D., to a statewide task force on health inequities. The move comes as part of an executive order aimed at addressing the disproportionate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on communities of color. https://inside.uncc.edu/news-features/2020-07-16/governor-appoints-social-work-p…

In the midst of a pandemic resulting in disparate rates of death among Black and Brown people, African Americans are also dealing with the hefty weight of racism, murder by cops, and Amy Coopers of the world. Black Silence is my Weapon…Allow Me to Push!

Note: No one Black person can speak for all, but over the course of this week and the last three months, several years, decades, and centuries of constant death in the name of racist systems, institutions, and people, many of us have received numerous reachouts from friends in sympathy and asking how you might support. […]

Like so many of you and others around the nation, I was heartbroken by George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis on Monday night and the horrifying video of his final moments. The recent killings of Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery are further examples of the systemic racial injustice that continues to plague our country. Chancellor’s Statement […]

ANNOUNCED Dr. Sonyia Richardson earned PhD and promoted to tenure-track assistant professor; transitioning out of BSW Program Director role.

Shena Cuningham awarded the CHHS Staff Employee of the Year Award.

Dr. Ticola Ross was awarded the Community Engagement award for the College of Health and Human Services