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Angel Hjarding’s Butterfly Highway project is gathering steam. Fresh off a presentation on citizen science in Sweden, she is continuing to organize in CHARP partner neighborhoods to create the Butterfly Highway. The Butterfly Highway is a community-conducted, citizen science effort to create “highways” for vital pollinators in Charlotte, NC. Green spaces and pollinator gardens will […]
CHARP welcomes new and returning students to UNCC for a new semester. We also welcome our neighborhood and campus partners back from the holiday season. We have a lot of exciting projects to work on this semester and summer. We continue to work on the Enderly Park Women’s Safety Audit. The Butterfly Highway Project is […]
Public, non-profit, and private organizations are working to raise funds to end chronic homelessness in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County. Using a Housing First approach, the funds would potentially end chronic homelessness in Charlotte. The Charlotte Observer posted an excellent story this week. Ending chronic homelessness in Charlotte
CHARP member Tara Bengle helped to organize the Art Meets Activism event on October 18th, 2014. The Arts & Democracy Project hosted and funded a full day workshop to bring together activists, artists, students, and community leaders to explore the intersections between art and activism in Charlotte. The Behailu Academy in Noda hosted the event […]
Dr. Sorensen co-authored a paper that was recently voted “the most influential research related to health care disparities for 2014.” The poll was conducted by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The research engaged Hispanic youth and paired them with Dr. Sorensen’s undergraduate seminar students to perform a Photovoice project. The youth photographed aspects of their […]
Cache Owens of CHARP is hosting a planner’s panel as part of her NCAPA Fellowship on February 24th at 11am in McEniry 117 at UNC Charlotte. The panel will be part of Dr. Robby Boyer’s Intro to Urban & Regional Planning course. The panel will include 4 planners, 3 from the public sector and one […]
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 […]
New research done by UNC Charlotte’s Harrison Campbell with Huiping Li and Steven Fernandez demonstrates that segregation hurts not only those segregated in the urban core but also those living in the suburbs and the rest of the city alike. Emily Badger of The Atlantic spoke with Dr. Campbell about how segregation stymies innovation and […]
An interactive map application allows us to see how cities have changed over time with respect to segregation/integration. Graham MacDonald of The Atlantic compiled maps for 268 Metro areas from the work done by Sophie Litschwartz. The maps show the changes from 1970 to 2010 and take the dissimilarity index created by Litschwartz and apply […]
Our first Neighborhood Campus Forum brought our neighborhood partners together with faculty and students on UNC Charlotte’s main campus. Residents from Reid Park, Enderly Park, and Graham Heights spoke about the issues and research questions that impact their quality of life and sought partners on campus to help them answer these questions. Faculty and students […]
Dr. Joe Kuhns, based in UNC Charlotte’s Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology, has expanded the knowledge surrounding the act of burglary. Dr. Kuhns in collaboration with other researchers around the country interviewed offenders convicted of burglary to better understand the motivations for this crime and what can be employed to deter acts of this […]
Liz Shockey and Tara Bengle presented their research as well as CHARP’s at the recent Planners’ Network conference, Beyond Resilience: Actions for a Just Metropolis. Liz Shockey’s presentation focused on the role place attachment plays in organizing and community-university partnerships while Tara Bengle discussed her work with participatory action research and how this method of […]
Arthur Pryer, a two-year graduate student liaison, has completed and defended his master’s thesis. The thesis focused on comparing the public park facilities enjoyed by Dilworth and Reid Park. The comparisons look at the socioeconomic conditions around the parks as well as comparing the history and quality of the facilities. Congratulations to Artie. His thesis […]
This report details the findings and outcomes of a year-long initiative in the suburban neighborhood of Windy Ridge in Charlotte, North Carolina. The project was funded by the Raleigh-based Z. Smith Reynolds (ZSR) Foundation and, as such, a version of this report was also submitted to ZSR after the year of funding had elapsed. The […]
One of CHARP’s newest members, Melissa Currie, wrote a guest essay for Citiwire.net titled “Who, Then, is an American?” The essay discusses how Americans view regionalism and space and how our particular tendencies may inhibit regional cooperation or allow us to take on the new challenges of the 21st century. “Who, Then, Is an American?” […]