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  1. July 23, 2023

    Lena Kisner’s passion for early childhood special education spurred her investigation of preschool inclusion rates in rural Kansas schools. She’s a special education director, overseeing children from birth to age 21 for five interlocal school districts.

    Teacher sitting on the floor interacting with a group of preschool-age children.
  2. July 13, 2023

    Beginning fall 2023, all UNC students will have more unique and diverse opportunities to pursue music and art during their college careers. In the process of revamping the College of Performing and Visual Arts (PVA) curriculum, Dean Cristina Goletti, MFA, is creating a cultural and creative hub to support the development of future artists, scholars and educators.

    instructor standing in circle of students in a large room conducting acting class
  3. July 7, 2023

    Growing up in Greeley in the 1960s and 1970s as an only child, Dr. Mary Jo Drew ‘79 had, as she put it, an idyllic childhood. With two encouraging and ahead-of-their-time parents, she was allowed to follow her interests wherever they led. A self-proclaimed “science geek,” she had to know more about everything around her, whether it be rocks, the clouds in the sky or the organs in the human body.

    Female college student wearing a white robe in a biology lab
  4. June 26, 2023

    Students and faculty from the School of Music visited the Dominican Republic to run workshops, round tables, masterclasses and educational concerts.

    Socrates Garcia conducting at the National Theatre