CHARP

Al Richmond, the new Executive Director of the Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH), will be visiting UNC Charlotte March 23-24 and will be sitting down with members of CHARP and MAPPr to discuss ways to collaborate with these organization at UNC Charlotte. He will also be speaking on March 24th at 3pm. His topic will […]

The visit of the Executive Director of Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) was a big success. Al Richmond enjoyed meeting with our neighborhood partners and shared with us his deep knowledge of the City of Charlotte. Mr. Richmond spoke to a number of UNC Charlotte faculty and students as well as health care representatives in […]

The Mobile Arts & Community Experience (MAX) is the product of a $350,000 Knight Foundation grant and the work of the UNCC College of Arts and Architecture, City.Building.Lab and the Charlotte Action Research Project. The MAX is a mobile space for neighborhoods to hold meetings and integrate the arts into community events and organizing. The […]

The Chancellor’s Diversity Challenge Fund event on March 26th was a big success. The event began with a presentation by Cache Owens explaining the Women’s Safety Audit process and partnership with Greater Enderly Park. She would subsequently present this discussion at the Urban Affairs Conference in Miami. The guests and students from GEOG 2000 presented […]

Angel Hjarding took part in the Integrated Network for Social Sustainability (INSS) held in Charlotte and organized by UNCC faculty including Robby Boyer (Geography) and Nicole Peterson (Anthropology). She led a group of conference attendees on a tour of Enderly Park in an effort to count butterflies and explain the importance of biodiversity in support […]

WFAE’s Public Conversations: One Charlotte or Many?: A Neighborhood Perspective was well-enjoyed and received by the neighborhood residents who attended. The audio recording of the event is below One Charlotte or Many?

Dr. Sorensen’s GEOG 2000 finished up their semester this week. The class worked with three neighborhoods: College Downs, Enderly Park, and Graham Heights. The students researched the issues related to each neighborhood and performed service and outreach in the neighborhoods to learn more about each issue. The products of this semester are below in the […]

We cordially invite you to attend our next Neighborhood Campus Forum on Wednesday May 29th at 5:45pm in Cone 210. We have invited our neighborhood partners to speak with faculty and students about the research interests they have with regard to their neighborhoods. This is an opportunity to build a new generation of service-learning courses […]

On May 20th there will be a live webcast for the release of Kneebone’s and Berube’s Confronting Suburban Poverty in America. A panel discussion with the authors and anti-poverty experts will discuss how America can rise to meet this new challenge and form that poverty has taken. There will be a webcast of the panel […]

A recent WSOC-TV report discusses how tax money is distributed throughout Charlotte by district. West Charlotte receives the most and South Charlotte receives the least. The information discussed covers 2002-2010. It is an interesting finding but there is certainly more to this story as the West and South sides are still very different. Channel 9 […]