The University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Bill Moran had a front row view as chancellor when the Dining Hall was renovated and the Fountain was built, a quarter century ago. On May 1, he had a front row seat, literally, as the area was named in his honor.

“He steered this institution through enormously challenging times,” Chancellor Linda P. Brady said. A hiring freeze, budget cut, double digit inflation, belt tightening were some of the challenges he faced – but he was undaunted by them, she explained.

This day of dedicating the William E. Moran Commons and Plaza was “a tribute to a bold leader.”

Among his achievements, he led UNCG’s first-ever capital campaign. UNCG’s endowment grew tenfold under his 15 year tenure as chancellor.

He was responsible for many new buildings on campus. Chancellor Brady made special note of the Dining Hall renovation during his tenure and building of the Fountain.

“UNCG could not have become the institution it is today without Bill Moran,” she said.

UNCG Trustee Richard “Skip” Moore noted those two projects were the “beginning of the physical transformation of this campus.” He described what the area had looked like before its transformation, with a parking area and a bridge leading to the second floor.

Student Government president Chelsea Boccardo called the commons and plaza “an incredible space.” She added – speaking from the students’ perspective – “This will be remembered as the spot – where everything happens.”

Moran described the phone call in which Chancellor Brady told him the news of the naming. He is “still stunned by it,” he said.

He alluded to the history of the campus, using the Dining Hall and fountain area as an example. “This campus means a lot to me,” he said. He called it “a classroom in itself.” The students are learning as they talk with each other – and as they walk the campus. It is a convergence of beauty and function and order, he explained, and students sense that importance and stability.

In his story of UNCG, “Making North Carolina Literate,” historian Allen Trelease noted Moran’s years of tenure were marked with controversy and dissension. “Different constituencies, on and off campus, pushed in different directions,” he wrote. On this day, that was forgotten.

The large crowd of well-wishers on hand for the dedication were testament to the important place he holds in the Spartan family.

An endowment fund has been set up in Moran’s name at UNCG.

Trustees chair David Sprinkle, who provided the welcome, joined Moran, Brady, Moore and Boccardo in ringing the University Bell.

Three taps on the ball and then a final cheer as Brady made final remarks at “this marvelous event in the life of the university.”

By Mike Harris
Photography by Chris English and David Wilson. On main CW page, Moran speaks with well-wishers, including Terry Seaks (left with raised hand). On this page, Moran at ceremony.

Dr. Norman Anderson earned his PhD in psychology at UNCG 30 years ago.

On Friday, he was back. Anderson, CEO of the American Psychological Association, addressed the Class of 2013 and took home a second doctorate, an honorary Doctor of Science degree.

He spoke of happiness.

About 60 percent of their personal happiness can be chalked up to life circumstances and genetics, Anderson told the new grads. The remaining 40 percent is up to them.

“Research has shown that enduring happiness involves the actions we take, the thoughts we think and the goals we set for ourselves every day,” he said. “We are in complete control of a large percentage of our own happiness, so the onus is on us to fully realize our happiness potential.”

Chancellor Linda P. Brady conferred 2,693 degrees during the university’s spring commencement, held in the Greensboro Coliseum. That number includes 2,020 bachelors degrees, 600 masters degrees, 15 Specialist in Education degrees and 58 doctoral degrees. Thirty-eight of those degrees went to international students.

Dr. Daniel Winkler served as faculty marshal and mace bearer.

Chelsea Boccardo, president of the Student Government Association, addressed the Class of 2013 on behalf of SGA.

Chief marshal was Anna Batista. KaShay Evans-Barlow was tassel turner.

Matthew Moss, Class of 2013, and Gayle Hicks Fripp, Class of 1963, rang the university bell, a longstanding UNCG tradition.

Full story – and link to address – at UNCC News.

By Michelle Hines

Karen Parker was the first black female undergraduate at UNC Chapel Hill. Joanne Johnston-Francis, a white student, became her roommate without seeking permission from officials. They both protested segregation in sit-ins at Chapel Hill. Their role as Tar Heels is documented in such books as “Courage in the Moment” and “The Free Men.”

What few know is that their civil rights activism started earlier – as students at Woman’s College (later known as UNCG).

For them, before there was Franklin Street, there was Tate Street.

The Tate Street boycott involved a cinema and two restaurants that would not serve African Americans. The Woman’s College student government voted unanimous approval of a boycott and picketing. A few dozen Woman’s College students picketed in front of the three businesses in an organized manner.

The protest was featured in UNCG Magazine in Spring 2010. A number of key figures were interviewed (the story can be read here.) But two who were not interviewed were Parker and Johnston-Francis, who both transferred to UNC Chapel Hill after that semester.

Karen Parker, wearing her Class of ‘65 nametag at a recent WC Reunion, was asked about her involvement on Tate Street.

“I was picketing at the Apple House,” she said, and she may have picketed the cinema on Tate Street, as well. She additionally recalls participating in a big, silent march in downtown Greensboro.

She has suppressed some unpleasant memories, she says. But she has a few particular memories of the Tate Street protesting.

“I remember a white girl,” she says, stating her name. “She walked right in front of me on the picket line.” They’d know each other in Winston-Salem’s Reynolds High School AP English class, and as interns for two years (as WC students) at the Winston-Salem Journal, Parker notes. That day, the white student disregarded her as she cut through the line to enter the Apple House.

Parker called her by her name. “__, I’m shocked.” It hurt Parker’s feelings, she explains. “She put her head up, and walked right in there.”

“It floored me.”

Another memory: “A bunch of white men were really harassing us, name-calling,” she says. How close? “Pretty much in our faces.”

When did she meet Johnston-Francis? “I thought it was when we were picketing. Joanne thinks it was later,” in Chapel Hill.

Johnston-Francis is not sure either. She knew Parker’s roommate, Linda Lee, an African-American student. “I spoke to Linda on the picket line,” Johnston-Francis recalls. So it’s quite possible she and Parker did meet on Tate Street while picketing, she thinks.

Like Parker, Johnston-Francis transferred to Chapel Hill for their School of Journalism. Looking back, she credits WC/UNCG for the “variety and richness of its student body.”

The first black woman undergraduate at UNC Chapel Hill, Parker had no roommate in West Cobb.

As Johnston-Francis tells it, “(Karen) was given a room by herself. I was put in a three-girl room.”

They thought, “Well, this is crazy.”

Johnston-Francis moved in. They became friends. And they both became a part of the effort to integrate Chapel Hill businesses that would not serve African Americans. (A brief overview is here.)

“Karen was arrested first,” explains Johnston-Francis about the sit-ins. “I did not know where she was.”

Ultimately Parker would be arrested twice, over the course of the sit-ins.

Johnston-Francis would be arrested four times. A newspaper photograph by Jim Wallace of her being dragged away by one arm by a police officer at a restaurant sit-in reportedly led to a police policy change: The police chief instructed all officers to carry those being arrested during sit-ins.

“I remember my teeth chattering, when I was arrested,” Johnston-Francis says, when asked about that photograph. She wasn’t sure what would happen next. “We would refuse to accept bail,” she says.

She worked to get more people involved. And she lobbied Congress regarding the 1964 civil rights legislation. “I spent a week or more in DC lobbying Peter Rodino, Emanuel Cellar and others.”

She’d spent much of her childhood in Greensboro, attending white, segregated schools in Lindley Park. She recalls riding the bus to downtown Greensboro for music lessons – she, a white girl, in the front while African-American maids would be in the back. The unwritten rules of segregation were “highly curious and uncomfortable” she remembers feeling at that young age. Her parents were from New Jersey, where she’d begun elementary school at an integrated school. “We were not prepared for segregation.”

She’d gone to that Cinema Theatre as a child, not aware that it was segregated. At downtown Greensboro’s theaters, segregation was more obvious, she explains.

As a sophomore at Woman’s College, she saw a sign in Elliott Hall (now the EUC), announcing a meeting there for anyone interested in the picketing on Tate Street. She went.

“I signed up for various shifts to carry a sign.”

How many shifts? “I have no idea how many times. I was supposed to be studying for exams.” How many? “More than I should have.”

She believes she marched at each location on Tate Street.

The positive experience encouraged her. “My experience being successful there (on Tate Street) led me to believe we’d be successful there at Chapel Hill.” But the protesters in Chapel Hill would meet very strong resistance.

Johnston-Francis’ family had not known of her picketing at Tate Street. They disapproved of her action in Chapel Hill.

“My mother did not know of it,” Parker says of the Tate Street protest and her participation in it. She says a blurb ran on the Winston-Salem TV news and believes that’s how her mother found out about it. “She did have a fit.” She was more upset later with her activism in Chapel Hill.

After Chapel Hill, Johnston-Francis embarked on a teaching career path in Harlem, then moved to Washington state. Much of her life’s work has been in social work of some kind but has also included agriculture, forestry, hospitality, historical research and writing. Now, short story writing and gardening are two passions.

After Chapel Hill, Parker worked at the Grand Rapids Press, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, the LA Times for a 15 year stint, the Salt Lake Tribune and then the Winston-Salem Journal, where she’d interned as a UNCG student.

Her education at UNCG served her very well, she says. “I learned so much,” she says. “Literature and other things.”

Dante’s Inferno. Her Homeric Greek class. History class. She vividly recalls an exam where there was one essay question, about Martin Luther. One student got an A, the professor told the class. “The A was Miss Parker.”

“Things did get better over the years” for African-Americans, Parker observes. Johnston-Francis observes the societal changes too. “We have come a long way, but have so far yet to go.”

Though they live on opposite sides of the country, the two have remained friends over the decades. They are linked by their Greensboro years and Chapel Hill years. They talk about every six weeks or so, Parker says.

By Mike Harris
Photography of Parker and Johnston-Francis (Joanne Christine Johnston) from 1963 Pine Needles yearbook, courtesy UNCG Special Collections & University Archives. Photograph on main Campus Weekly page of Parker at April Reunion event is by Wesley Brown.

A brief overview of the Tate Street boycott and picketing is here.
The full story is at www.uncg.edu/ure/alumni_magazineT2/2010_spring/feature_tatestreet.htm

UNCG’s renovated Quad has been awarded the Star Award, the top honor given by the Construction Professional Network of North Carolina.

The $55 million renovation of seven historic residence halls on campus, known as the Quad, was chosen for the prestigious award from among a list of projects that cost more than $20 million. Several aspects of the Quad renovation were singled out for praise by the judges, including its sustainable design and the project’s complexity, said Fred Patrick, director of UNCG facilities, design and construction.

Its impact on the local community and construction industry also received high marks, Patrick said.

This marks the second year in a row a UNCG-related construction project has received the Star Award.

Full story at UNCG Now.

By Lanita Withers Goins

The College of Arts & Sciences has announced the award of the 2013-14 Candace Bernard and Robert Glickman Dean’s Professorships to three tenure-track faculty, based on their scholarly accomplishments and promise and their commitment to excellent teaching:

• Holly Goddard Jones, assistant professor of Creative Writing in the Department of English, joined the UNCG faculty in 2009. Her work has appeared in some of the foremost venues for both fiction and non-fiction and her stories have been anthologized in volumes such as “The Year’s Best New Stories from the South,” “Best American Mystery Stories” and the forthcoming “The Lineup: 25 Provocative Women Writers.” Her collection of short stories, “Girl Trouble,” has been translated into French and Italian, and the rights to her new novel “The Next Time You See Me,” which is an alternate selection of both the Book of the Month Club and the Mystery Guild, have been sold in the UK, France, Italy and The Netherlands. She received the 2013 Hillsdale Award for Fiction from the Fellowship of Southern Writers. She has had great success as a teacher of fiction writing at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
• Sheryl Oring, assistant professor in the Department of Art, joined the UNCG faculty in 2011. Her interdisciplinary works rely on public and community interaction to engage with important social issues and events through public participation. As an example, in 2011 she was commissioned by the New York Public Library to produce a project called Collective Memory to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Teams of typists sat in Bryant Park in New York City and asked passers-by to respond to the question: “What would you like the world to remember about 9/11?” The replies were typed verbatim on postcards and subsequently both exhibited and published in a limited edition set of books. She has produced works in Russia and Brazil and recently won an international competition to create public art for an expansion of the San Diego International Airport. In addition to her successful formal teaching, she led a project to engage students in an exploration of the meaning of diversity on campus.
• Clifford Smyth, assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics & Statistics, joined the UNCG faculty in 2008. His research in combinatorial probability has been published in some of the leading journals in his field, including two in the Journal of Combinatorial Theory, widely regarded as one of the most important journals in the field of mathematics, and he is regularly invited to present his research at some of the country’s most prestigious institutions. His research has been funded by the National Security Agency and the Simons Foundation, and he participates in two major collaborative projects funded by the National Science Foundation that support undergraduate involvement in the STEM disciplines. He has contributed to the department’s Math Emporium, an innovative model for teaching introductory mathematics, in addition to teaching courses at all levels and supervising graduate theses.

The Bernard-Glickman Dean’s Professorships are made possible by a generous gift from Candace Bernard ‘67 and Robert Glickman of Wayne, Penn. Each award includes a salary stipend and a fund for research. In announcing the recipients at the College of Arts & Sciences’ End-of-Year Celebration, Dr. Timothy D. Johnston, dean of the College, noted that the awards provide an opportunity to recognize the outstanding accomplishments and promise of the College’s untenured faculty.

The following message was sent to university employees earlier this week:

Consistent with the objective in our Strategic Plan to “lead the UNC System in enhancing the health and wellness of students and employees,” UNCG initiated a pilot program in summer 2012 that encouraged a flexible work schedule for staff during an eight-week period. Staff Senate and Human Resources recently conducted a survey on the 2012 program and found considerable support for continuation of the program this summer. As a result, I encourage the deans and vice chancellors to make a special effort to facilitate flexible hours from Monday, June 10 through Friday, August 2. Our current Flexible Work Schedule Policy also provides options to departments and employees throughout the year.

While we want to provide flexibility in work schedules, offices must be mindful of two guiding principles that must be followed at all times:

• An office must have coverage from 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday and
• In compliance with Fair Labor Standards Act requirements, all full-time non-exempt employees must work 40 hours per week. The University recognizes that many FLSA exempt employees work a significant number of hours beyond the standard work week of 40 hours.

If you are interested in participating in a flexible work schedule, I recommend discussion of potential options with your supervisor. Keep in mind that the nature of some positions and offices may not allow for this option; however, I am hopeful that most units can find a way to implement a flexible structure, particularly during the summer months.

If you are a supervisor, I encourage you to work with your department, dean, and/or vice chancellor to explore opportunities to implement a flexible work schedule for your staff. Human Resources is available if you need assistance, ideas or guidance with the implementation of a flexible work schedule for your unit. With limited resources and fewer employees due to budget cuts, we all need to think more creatively and strategically in managing our departments.

We are very interested in knowing how this policy is being implemented. If you implement a flexible work schedule, whether you are a supervisor or a staff member, please let Human Resources know. We want to share success stories and ideas with others. Additionally, if there are challenges, or you feel as if this will not work for your area, Human Resources needs to hear about those as well. Dr. Edna Chun, Associate Vice Chancellor for Human Resources, can be reached at e_chun@uncg.edu.

I want to thank Staff Senate and Human Resources for their continuing efforts to support the wellness and work/life balance of our employees.

Linda P. Brady
Chancellor

They came oh so close.

The UNCG Softball team entered the SoCon Tournament the fourth seed. With junior Raeanne Hanks pitching, they took the first two games in shut-out fashion, including one over top-seeded Appalachian State.

In the title game Saturday on ESPN3, she pitched again. The team gave up no runs through regulation. The defense was stellar, including a video-highlight snag (seen here) by Aisha Figueroa in left field. In the 11th inning, Georgia Southern finally scored on a home run. Final score 1-0.

Hanks went 24 straight innings without giving up an earned run until that 11th inning walk-off home run.

Hanks, who is a social work major, was named the SoCon Tournament Most Outstanding Player.

Catcher Lindsay Thomas, who had two home runs in the semifinal game, was named to the All-Tournament Team.

(CW livetweeted updates and pictures from the final two games.)

Earlier in the week, Thomas had been named SoCon Freshman of the Year.

Joining Thomas on the SoCon All-Conference first team was junior Katelyn Bedwell, who majors in elementary education. Six UNCG players made second team honors.

Thomas broke the school record for most home runs in a season with 17. (Two of those were in the tournament.)

Full story at UNCG Athletics. And see related story at UNCG Now.

On Saturday March 30, Imaginary Friends Ensemble, Immer String Quartet, and the Hendiatrist Trio took to the stage at Presbyterian Church of the Covenant to collect food donations for the Greensboro Urban Ministry. Composed of both current UNCG student and alumni musicians, the three ensembles presented a concert of traditional classical works featuring Schumann, Schubert, and Chopin, among others.

Three large boxes of food and more than $100 in cash donations were collected.

On Monday, April 1, the music performance department revived an old tradition of hosting a follies concert with the “Beaux Eaux Extravaganza!” It featured music faculty and students playing everything from Bach to Tenacious D and supported Greensboro Urban Ministry. “Beaux Eaux” collected 20 grocery bags of food.

See full story at http://performingarts.uncg.edu/news/article?a=2013-04-24

Step down to Tate Street May 16 and imagine the scene of exactly 50 years ago.

On the sidewalks, you’d have seen three small groups of Woman’s College (UNCG) students, picket signs in hand, marching. The cinema, the Apple House Restaurant and the Town and College Restaurant were segregated at that time. And many Woman’s College (UNCG) students intended to make a stand.

A circular about the protest listed six student contacts – three were African American, three were white. Apparently two to three dozen actually marched. “The students picketed in groups of 3 to 5 in front of each of the three establishments, in hour shifts during the designated times,” the Carolinian noted. All the marchers were WC/UNCG students.

The women rotated in hourly shifts, to avoid missing any classes.

The student government had voted its support of a student-led boycott of these businesses. And a group of students picketed. They were determined. Marian Thornhill McClure ‘64 said during the recent UNCG Reunion, “Herbie, he was determined he was not going to serve black people.” She was speaking of Herb Apple, proprietor of the Apple House Restaurant, where she picketed. But their collective effort was a success. “It was a matter of wearing them down,” she concluded.

• The students’ signs bore such slogans as “Liberty and Justice For All” and “All WC Students Are Equal.”
• The picketing lasted May 16-22, according to a flyer.
• Both African-American and white students participated in the 1963 Tate Street picketing.
• Participants speak of verbal harassment. Some recall being spat upon or things being thrown at them.

Sina McGimpsey Reid, one of the many organizers, told UNCG Magazine, “There was bravery that was demonstrated…. Some were very courageous.”

See related story of two old friends who marched on Tate Street, in today’s Campus Weekly.

See a complete story of the Tate Street picketing at www.uncg.edu/ure/alumni_magazineT2/2010_spring/feature_tatestreet.htm

The Spartan Stories blog, by UNCG Archives, plans a story on the protest next week, at uncghistory.blogspot.com/.

By Mike Harris

In a major efficiency initiative, on May 15, 2013, UNCG will transition to JobSearch, a fully online employment system for recruitment, outreach and affirmative action processes that will include faculty and EPA non-faculty searches. Since 2006, UNCG has used an online system for recruitment processes for SPA staff.

The new process will reduce and eliminate time-intensive paper processes and ensure compliance with required review and recordkeeping processes. It will integrate existing affirmative action forms and processes within the JobSearch workflow and allow continuous, real-time monitoring of applicant pools for diversity as searches progress. The system will also provide enhanced tools and resources to search committees, including customized emails, automated reference letter collection, evaluation tools and reporting resources. The online employment system will decrease the time-to-hire, provide candidates with 24/7 access to the application process as well as updated status notifications. The enhanced system will reduce advertising costs and amplify UNCG’s outreach capacity and ability to showcase the university as an employer-of-choice in a competitive job market.

Human Resources will provide lab sessions that offer users of the system the chance to practice recruitment scenarios specific to their areas in a training version of the UNCG jobsearch site. These sessions will be offered prior to, and following the go-live date of May 15, 2013. To register for the lab sessions, go to http://workshops.uncg.edu/workshops-by-category.jsp?cat_id=77002593.

Recycling rivalries added another level of “madness” to March this year, as UNCG competed with more than 520 others in the RecycleMania Tournament, which harnesses the competitive spirit around sports rivalries and uses them to increase campus recycling and waste reduction.

UNCG participated in the eight-week competition in which schools are ranked according to how much recycling, trash and food waste they collect. Between the Feb. 3 kickoff and the tournament’s final day on March 30, participating schools collectively recovered 90.3 million pounds of recyclables and organic materials, preventing the release of nearly 121,436 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MTCO2E) into the atmosphere.

Locally, UNCG recycled more than 26 percent of its waste during the course of the competition. This recycling rate beat out NC A&T (24 percent), UNC Chapel Hill (24 percent), NC State (22 percent) and ECU (21 percent). Guilford College was one of the top performers in the neighborhood, with a recycling rate of 60 percent.

During this 13th annual tournament, updated weekly rankings allowed schools to track their performance in eight categories – measuring their recycling rate; overall recycling by weight; lowest amount of total waste; and per capita recovery for paper, cardboard, cans and bottles, and food waste. Colleges also participated in several special categories targeting electronics and film plastics, as well as the “Game Day: Basketball” category, which ranked schools based on recyclables collected at a single home basketball game.

UNCG finished 33rd in the National Waste Minimization category, disposing of 17.7 lbs. per capita.

“UNCG should be proud of its performance in Recyclemania this year but there is still much room for improvement for recycling and waste reduction on campus,” said Ben Kunka, manager of Waste Reduction and Recycling at UNCG.

The RecycleMania Tournament is an independent program of RecycleMania, Inc., a nonprofit organization led by recycling managers from participating schools. Complete results for the competition may be found at http://recyclemania.org.

The UNCG Staff Stars represent the best of what UNCG is all about.

Chancellor Brady emphasized this as she presented Staff Stars Awards to 21 members of staff. She read what the nominating co-workers or supervisors had to say about them and their service to the university.

As she read, themes emerged of positive spirit, a ready smile, going above and beyond – and providing a supportive environment for our students.

“You make an incredible difference to our university, our faculty – and to all who call UNCG home,” she said.

The ceremony on a warm, spring day was lighter than it typically has been, with more smiles and even laughter.

Those honored were:
Geoff Bailey, Learning Assistance Center
Bethany Brown, Psychology
Kory Burgess, Housing and Residence Life
Helen Burns, Housekeeping
Ray Carney, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Matt Catanzarite, Center for Geographic Information Science
Jennie Gouker, Undergraduate Student Excellence
Alfred Hanes, Facilities Operations
Andre Hill, Undergraduate Admissions
Jeff Melton, Housekeeping
Katherine Pashal, Parking Operation and Campus Access Management
Bryan Payne, Facilities Services
John Pearce, Facilities Services
Emilie Peterson, Psychology
Trish Plunkett, Undergraduate Studies
Debora Reid, Housekeeping
Audrey Sage, University Libraries
Suzanne Schmutz, Graduate School
Anna Tapp, Center for Geographic Information Science
Pat Turner, University Registrar’s Office
Tom White, Facilities Operations

By Mike Harris
Visual on this page: honorees after ceremony. On CW main page: John Pierce, second shift supervisor in Facilities Services, with Chancellor Brady. Photography by Wesley Brown

The faculty won big. The Animal Shelter won bigger.

“We’ve got a beautiful day for a ball game don’t we,” Ray Carney (Chemistry & Biochemistry) announced from the mound just before the inaugural UNCG Faculty vs. Staff Kickball game. It was part of a drive for the Guilford County Animal Shelter.

“The truck is almost full. If nothing else, that makes it a success,” he said.

Chancellor Brady threw, um, rolled out the first pitch. The National Anthem was played. And Carney announced, “Let the game begin.”

Faculty scored first 1-0. Staff left a runner stranded on third in the bottom of the first.

The Faculty team started a chant: “One to zip, one to zip.” Dr. Vidya Gargeya (Bryan School) and Dr. Beth Walker (Women & Gender Studies), both sporting a large Spartan daisy in their hair, were literally dancing.

Dr. Anthony Chow (LIS) kicked the first home run, to center field.

“Eight – zip,” Gargeya informed the crowd. “Ten – zero, ten- zero,” he announced later in the inning.

Dr. Chris Poulos (Communication Studies) kicked the game’s second home run.

After three innings, the score was 14 to 0, as Faculty dominated. Gargeya and Walker used their bodies to spell out the winning team’s name: CAT HERD.

233 were in attendance, Jason Marshburn (Emergency Management) said.

The first Staff player to score? Kelly Bailey Meris (Graduate School). The scoreboard read 24-2 when the game came to an end.

But the real score was found inside the Animal Shelter drive truck. Doug Taylor (Bryan School) and other members of the Staff Senate Off-Campus Service Committee were still collecting items in the late innings. Seven large containers were full and packed up; two were half-full. About 2,000 pounds of animal food had been collected, he explained. A variety of donations were made, including animal bedding.

Jan Albrecht (ITS) noted that Marsha Williams, director of the shelter, had been on hand. She told them that quantity of donations will save hundreds of animals’ lives, said Albrecht, who chairs the committee. A great team of staff members had been a part of the successful drive, she noted – and that it was a campuswide effort. Plus more would come in, in the following days. “Everyone had a hand in making it successful.”

There is already talk on campus of a rematch next year. Till then, faculty can savor the win.

By Mike Harris
Visual: Dr. Seung-Hyun Lee (Media Studies) boots the ball for the Faculty. Photo by Clayton English.

Many departments and programs at UNCG have adopted UNCG’s Integrated Marketing & Strategic Communication (IMSC) guidelines. They have used the UNCG Brand Guide, taken part in communications lunch & learn gatherings or called on members of University Relations for advice.

And they have created impactful communication pieces – from viewbooks to posters, from brochures to web pages and student guides – that resonate with students, prospective students and other audiences.

Five units were quick to seize upon the results of this IMSC initiative, since its launch last spring:

• School of Education
• Student Affairs
• University Libraries
• Admissions
• Bryan School

Representatives from these five units received special recognition in a ceremony April 25 as effective, early adopters. They have created outstanding communication materials with visual style and wording that help tie their program to the broader university’s branding.

Helen Hebert, associate vice chancellor for university relations, praised them at the ceremony for “pushing the envelope.” She showed striking examples of their work, which serve as helpful examples for other campus departments.

Chancellor Linda P. Brady noted how the communications messaging – with the line “Do Something Bigger Altogether” – resonates with students and prospective students.

We are one university, she stressed. “It is very important that we focus on those characteristics that make us distinctive.”

A campuswide committee of faculty, staff and students gathered three years ago to begin research from the ground up, which would ultimately result in the IMSC guidelines, Hebert explained. Three UNCG characteristics emerged that receive particular focus in this branding communication: community engagement, challenging academics and a supportive environment.

Five years ago, the university lacked a cohesive marketing message. Now our campus has a unifying narrative, she explained.

At the UNCG Brand Guide, those who create materials may find resources for communicating in a manner that aligns with the UNCG brand and helps them meet their marketing and communication goals by highlighting UNCG’s unique strengths.

As one paragraph of the Brand Guide summarizes, “UNCG stands apart not only by the people we attract, but by the difference they make. At our university, what matters in addition to what is taught is how the lessons learned are carried forward. UNCG’s challenging programs, supportive environment and engaged community form a learning experience that empowers us all to do something bigger altogether.”

Next year, Hebert announced, there will be a formal process for a year-end recognition of those effectively leveraging the UNCG Brand Guide and communications guidelines.

Questions? Contact Helen Hebert at hdhebert@uncg.edu or Debbie Schallock at drschall@uncg.edu.

By Mike Harris
Visual on this page: Honorees after the ceremony. On CW main page: Rachel Williams and Dr. Meredith Walther accepted accolades on behalf of the School of Education. Dean Wixson did, as well. Photography by Wesley Brown.

UNCG is known for community engagement and a global outlook. Those characteristics are highlighted now that UNCG is a member campus of the international Talloires Network.

UNCG ‘s membership to the Talloires Network places UNCG within an international community of universities that are committed to strengthening the civic roles and social responsibilities of higher education. Joining more than 280 presidents and chancellors across 69 countries, Chancellor Linda P. Brady has signed the Talloires Declaration on the Civic Roles and Social Responsibilities of Higher Education, a requirement to join the network. Dr. Penelope Pynes, associate provost for international programs, will serve as our university’s liaison to the network.

This additional resource and affiliation will be especially important given UNCG’s chosen QEP topic, Global Engagement, initially proposed by Pynes and Dr. Jerry Pubantz.

Pynes states, “I really appreciate the honor of serving as liaison for this international network. Both internationalism and community engagement are distinctive strengths at UNCG and I look forward to exploring how we can enhance both areas, linking them together more intentionally.”

More information about UNCG’s membership to the Talloires Network, as well as community engagement activities, partnerships and resources may be found at http://communityengagement.uncg.edu/scholarly-resources/engaged-resources.aspx#membership

UNCG faculty are invited to a workshop intended to incorporate sustainability into new and existing courses. On August 12 and 13, 2013, the FTLC, Academic Sustainability Coordinator Dr. Aaron Allen, and faculty and staff experts on sustainability will hold a faculty development workshop to further sustainability education at UNCG. Full-time faculty from any department are encouraged to apply; participants will receive $250 upon successful completion of the workshop.

Applicants should submit one sample course syllabus that will be revised to incorporate sustainability-related content and/or learning outcomes. The course may be one that currently does or does not include sustainability, and it may be one that is currently offered or is planned for future offering.

The deadline to apply is May 10, 2013, and participants will be notified by May 17. The brief application is online at http://form.jotform.us/form/31053813588153 . Address any questions to Aaron_Allen@uncg.edu.

A few shovels and some helping hands did the trick.

On April 22, Grounds and International Programs staff and students gathered to plant a Japanese Maple beside the west side of the Dining Hall, at the newly named Moran Commons and Plaza.

Chris Fay, director of Grounds, noted that Moran was chancellor when he arrived at UNCG – and a lot of great improvements to the grounds happened on Moran’s watch.

Kevin Siler, who has been on the Grounds staff for five years, had prepared the small area at the northwest corner of the building with Tennessee River Stone. The idea, he explained, is that the tree limbs will drape over the stones, for a pleasing effect. And the stones may discourage cut-through traffic as well.

At the same time, other members of Grounds were planting grass seed near Cotten Residence Hall and adding mulch around trees. Later in the morning, phlox would be planted near steps at Grey Residence Hall. Newly moved Chinese pistachio trees were nearby.

Fay explained that work at the Moran Commons & Plaza will continue up until the time of the Moran Commons & Plaza dedication ceremony Wednesday, May 1, 4 p.m.

“The landscaping never stops. We’ll keep improving it till that day.”

Story and photo by Mike Harris.

Spring commencement will take place Friday, May 10, at the Greensboro Coliseum. The ceremony will begin at 10 a.m.

Currently, 2,726 candidates for undergraduate and graduate degrees have applied for May graduation.

Complete details may be accessed at Commencement Central.

Have an iPad or iPhone? Or a smartphone perhaps?

UNCGmobile helps you stay connected to UNCG.

This new, free app keeps you updated with UNCG news and events.

Plus you have ready access to the library catalog, course content, campus maps, Spartan Alert, UNCG YouTube channels, Spartan sports, the university public calendar and more.

Todd Sutton in ITS partnered with Blackboard Mobile to create the app. It includes links to other mobile web sites created by other campus developers.

“The app was created to provide a central source for mobile device users to find UNCG resources and information,” explains Sutton, who is university webmaster for ITS.

Details about the UNCGmobile app – including where you can find and install it – are at http://its.uncg.edu/uncgmobile

The UNCG Sustainability Council Sustainability Principles, part of their operating papers, were endorsed last week at the year-end General Faculty meeting. Earlier in the year, Staff Senate and the Student Government Association endorsed them as well.

Scott Milman and Dr. Aaron Allen are current co-chairs of the UNCG Sustainability Council.

They have led the revision process for the Sustainability Council Operating Papers based on feedback from faculty, staff and students.

The papers and principles – in an earlier form – were originally drafted under Dr. Anna Marshall-Baker and Jorge Quintal.

The opening paragraph of the papers state:
“Sustainability in institutions of higher education is characterized by activities that are ecologically sound, socially just, economically viable, and aesthetically engaged. Sustainable institutions emphasize these components in day-to-day operations and in curriculum and research, thereby preparing students to recognize challenges, develop solutions, and model behaviors that contribute to a regenerative, healthful, beautiful, and just world.”

The papers also note that sustainability is one of the core values of UNCG cited in the 2009-14 Strategic Plan.

That plan called for the development of a Sustainability Council that formed during the fall of 2011 to “support activities in academics and sustainable practices.” The papers seen at last week’s faculty meeting articulated the purpose, scope and membership of the Sustainability Council and clarified its operational procedures.

The operating papers also include Sustainability Principles that are broad-based and provide the basis for the development of a university Sustainability Policy.

By Mike Harris

Updated May 1, 10:30 a.m. to correct one name spelling.

A total of 92 UNCG employees completed a new online Personal Wellness Profile (PWP) during a special promotional period this spring. As you may recall, CW helped promote the initiative – one person would win an iPad.

That winner was Cheryl Cross (University Libraries). She tells CW, “The PWP was pretty easy to take.” And that she learned some valuable things as a result.

Additionally, several departments or programs in this promotion won a special Lunch with the Chancellor. These are Sustainability, Academic Assessment and the Warren Ashby Residential College.

Look for another, similar PWP online promotion in the fall, from HealthyUNCG.

The Personal Wellness Profile is a general health assessment that measures overall health and well-being.

If you have any questions regarding HealthyUNCG or the PWPs, email healthy_uncg@uncg.edu.

A federal grant of almost $450,000 will support UNCG’s Master of Library and Information Studies (MLIS) program as it continues to recruit and train culturally diverse librarians.

The Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian grant program, administered by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), will provide $442,063 to support the Academic and Cultural Enrichment (ACE) Scholars: New Americans for Community College Librarianship. ACE Scholars is designed to increase cultural diversity in UNCG’s program and in the library and information field as a whole.

Principal investigator Dr. Nora Bird, assistant professor of library and information studies, and co-principal investigator Michael Crumpton, assistant dean of UNCG University Libraries, say increasing diversity in the field is essential to keep up with the changing face of America and the Triad. This award marks the third IMLS grant to fund ACE Scholars. The first grant of $862,000 supported the training of 14 ACE Scholars who completed their MLIS in spring 2011. The second grant of $889,401 supports 20 ACE Scholars, the majority who are expected to complete their MLIS this spring.

Full story at UNCG Now.

By Michelle Hines

The students in SES 460 designed a T-shirt to sell and raise money supporting mental health awareness and to honor the families of Newtown, Conn., according to Dr. Belinda Hardin (Special Education Services). “We raised $339.87 to donate to the Mental Health Association of Greensboro. Also, the parent co-instructor for the course, Andrea Worthington, and an SES doctoral student, Dionne Busio, were instrumental in making sure the project was implemented.” To further raise awareness for mental health, some of the students and faculty in the class participated in The Human Race, a 5K walk in April. SES 460 student Shontria Fonville said, “It brought me great joy to help advocate for individuals with mental health challenges. After such an amazing experiencing and meeting other people with deep passion to help the community, I can only excitedly look forward to showing continued support.”

Visual at the Human Race: Shontria Fonville and Belinda Hardin

Two UNCG students, A’Isha Crawford and Pablo Diaz, have won Fulbright scholarships that will carry them abroad for a year to continue their research.

Crawford, a senior political science major with minors in sociology and Spanish, will graduate in May and spend 2014 in Malaysia, teaching English.

Diaz will complete a graduate degree in nanoscience in May. A native of Colombia who double-majored in science and economics as an undergraduate, he will study at the IE Business School in Madrid, Spain.

Full story at UNCG Now.

Visual: A’Isha Crawford in an earlier international journey
By Michelle Hines

With each passing semester, Campus Weekly has observed more offerings left at the base of the Minerva statue at exam-time. This year, the offerings began early. Tuesday morning (two days before exams begin), there were a sprig of flowers, one apple and something never seen before: a tiny note. It was addressed simply to M.

Dr. Lynne G. Pearcey will retire on June 30 after serving 23 years as dean of UNCG’s School of Nursing (SON).

Provost David H. Perrin said, “Lynne has provided exemplary leadership to our School of Nursing for over two decades. The school now offers highly selective educational programs at the undergraduate, master’s and PhD levels, and the Doctor of Nursing Practice degree has recently been approved for establishment by the UNC Board of Governors. Dean Pearcey’s legacy is one of excellence as evidenced by the school’s recognition as a National League of Nursing Center of Excellence in Nursing Education for three consecutive terms.”

Pearcey will be succeeded on July 1 by Dr. Robin E. Remsburg, who is a 1982 graduate of the School of Nursing. Remsburg is coming from George Mason University where she is currently director of the School of Nursing and associate dean for the College of Health and Human Services.

Pearcey joined UNCG in 1989 as professor and associate dean, coming from the University of South Alabama-Mobile. She was named interim dean in 1990 and received the permanent appointment as dean in 1991. She earned her BSN at Eastern Kentucky University, and her MSN and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Kentucky.

A strong leader, she came to be known affectionately as “the Nike Dean” in Deans Council. Why? “Occasionally, I just spoke up and said ‘Just Do It’ (Nike’s slogan) and let’s make a decision.” She incorporated two guiding principles in her work philosophy. One was “Lead, follow or get out of the way.” The second was “The best way to predict the future is to create it.”

As dean, Pearcey oversaw continued growth of the school, both in numbers and in degrees offered. The Ph.D. in Nursing began in 2005 with a total of 12 students and the school has been authorized by the UNC system to begin offering a second doctorate, the Doctor of Nursing Practice, in fall 2015. The RN to BSN program was established in 1991. The School of Nursing and Bryan School of Business & Economics collaborated to establish the combined MBA/MSN degree. As online degree programs were started at UNCG, MSN concentrations in nursing education and nursing administration were moved online.

The school’s programs have achieved recognition. After all of the graduates of the MSN nurse anesthesia program passed the national certification exam in 1990, U.S. News & World Report ranked it 8th in the nation in 1996 and the program is regularly ranked among the nation’s top 10. The school’s gerontology nurse practitioner program has also been ranked. For 2005-08, the school was named a Center of Excellence in Nursing Education for Ongoing Faculty Development by the National League of Nursing, holding the designation for another term 2008-11.

In her 22 years, she has seen almost 5,000 students complete degrees – 3,165 BSN graduates (including both BSN and RN- to BSNs), 1,790 MSN graduates, and 30 Ph.D. graduates. The number of graduates has grown from 138 in 1991 to 251 this year. Enrollment has jumped 45 percent, from 698 to 1,010. There were 30 faculty and five staff on hand in 1991; today there are 65 faculty and 20 staff.

Pearcey never lost touch with the school’s past, and she collaborated with Dr. Eloise R. Lewis, the school’s founding dean, until Lewis’ death in 1999.

Colleagues, alumni, friends, community members, faculty, staff and students, have honored Pearcey by creating the Dean’s Endowed Faculty Professional Development Fund. They also honored her with a hand-crafted quilt, with squares made by faculty members and staff that will hang in the school until Pearcey and her husband retire to Florida.

By Steve Gilliam

The dedication of the William E. Moran Commons and Plaza will be May 1, 2013, at 4 p.m. at the Fountain area, next to the Dining Hall’s main entrance.

All are invited to attend.

Moran served as chancellor from 1979 to 1994, during which time he oversaw $125 million in capital improvements. Those projects included construction of the Ferguson Building, the Health and Human Performance Building, the Music Building, the Weatherspoon Art Museum and the launching of the Spring Garden Streetscape project.

He was aggressive in using non-state funds in areas such as the first major renovation to the Dining Hall and expansion of the residence halls as well as construction of the Student Recreation Center, soccer stadium and Walker Avenue parking deck.

Moran helped lead the campus’ first capital campaign in the early 1980s, which raised more than $13.5 million. In the early 1990s, the Second Century Campaign resulted in gifts of more than $55 million. As a result, the university’s endowment grew from $4 million in 1979 to $43 million in 1994.

The William E. Moran Commons and Plaza includes the Fountain, Plaza and Dining Hall.

Full story at the UNCG Now site.

By Beth English

UNCG’s School of Education ranked among the nation’s best education schools in the most recent US News and World Report survey. Employer satisfaction played a key role in that strong showing, says the school’s dean, Dr. Karen Wixson.

When surveyed in 2012, employers of UNCG teacher education graduates reported that these teachers are knowledgeable about the subjects that they teach, understand state and national expectations for student achievement, and are well prepared to work with families and colleagues to promote student learning. Overall, employers rated their satisfaction with graduates of UNCG programs 3.44 out of 4.

Other data show that students entering UNCG teacher preparation programs have strong test scores and GPAs from their first two years of study in their major fields. While UNCG teacher education programs typically require a minimum 2.5 to 2.75 grade point average for admission, applicants actually begin their programs with a significantly higher average GPA of 3.27.

Full story at UNCG Now web page.

By Michelle Hines

Leave it to the Class of 1963 to make a name for itself – again. The last class to graduate from Woman’s College announced a record-breaking class gift of nearly $2 million to UNCG at its 50th reunion celebration last weekend.

The gift, a combination of cash and pledges totalling $1,974,000, will support the university’s Quad renovation; establish new scholarships and support existing ones, particularly the UNCG Guarantee; create program enrichment funds for departments; and support the university’s greatest needs.

Full story at UNCG Now web page.

By Betsi Robinson

The Office of New Student & Spartan Family Programs is looking for 2013 SOAR volunteers to help welcome new students and their families during the month of June.

SOAR volunteers are a team of UNCG faculty and staff who assist in greeting, guiding, and directing new Spartans and their families during SOAR.

There will be 8 freshman sessions this June: June 6-7, June 9-10, June 11-12, June 13-14, June 17-18, June 20-21, June 24-25 and June 27-28. The majority of the SOAR volunteer duties will be on the first day of SOAR between 7:30 a.m. and 1 p.m.

Each volunteer will get a 2013 SOAR Volunteer t-shirt to wear while you are working and an invitation to SOAR Preview where there will be plenty of food and fun for all.

The SOAR Volunteer program offers flexible hours and excellent benefits to all of its volunteers. You can choose which sessions and times work best for you.

If you are willing and able to be a SOAR Volunteer, RSVP to Allison Schofield at apschofi@uncg.edu no later than Friday, May 3, 2013. Once you RSVP, a Google Doc will be shared with you where you can select which session, which day and which post you would like to help with.

The Faculty Teaching & Learning Commons has regularly hosted get-together events this year to help faculty members from across disciplines get to know one another in a relaxed setting. This week’s event, on Thursday, April 25, at 4 p.m., features ice cream.

The final event of the semester at the Faculty Center – on May 2 – will offer the same opportunity . But it also offers a chance to say best wishes to Dr. Patrick Lee Lucas, FTLC’s executive director.

Lucas, who received the 2011 BOG Excellence in Teaching Award, will soon leave UNCG to join the University of Kentucky, as an IARC blog notes.

Organizers promise an Italian theme. (We’re hoping gelato will be served.) All UNCG faculty and staff are invited to this event.

The event is co-sponsored by the Lloyd International Honors College (where he was an inaugural faculty fellow and is teaching this semester), the Department of Art (which will display information about a Study in Florence program) and the FTLC.

The “Arrivederci, Patrick Lee Lucas” event is Thursday, May 2, 4-6 p.m. in the Faculty Center.

Enjoy the Sustainability Scholarship Fair on Earth Day, Monday, April 22, 2013, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Virginia Dare Room, Alumni House. UNCG faculty, staff and students will share sustainability related research and teaching in a casual setting.

The fair will provide an opportunity for faculty currently engaged in teaching and research in sustainability to meet, learn about, and network with others who also are involved in related activities. The event is free and open to the public, and it is coordinated with other student-organized and UNCG-sponsored Earth Day events along College Avenue outside the Alumni House. The Triad Student Energy Alliance, POCAM, Triad Electric Vehicle Association and others will be hosting activities and informational tables, including demonstrations of electric vehicles, alternative transportation options, and solar energy.

UNCG’s newly appointed academic sustainability coordinator, Dr. Aaron Allen, notes that sustainability is a core value defined in UNCG’s Strategic Plan 2009-2014 as “the enduring interconnectedness of social equity, the environment, the economy, and aesthetics.”

Building up to Earth Day, UNCG has two other events:

On Thursday, April 18, beginning at 6:30 p.m., the Sustainability Committee will host the 4th Annual Sustainability Shorts Screening at the Weatherspoon Art Museum. Prior to the short films will be a reception with free food, drink and live music. Winners of the Shorts as well as the Creative Sustainability Initiative grants will be announced at the reception.

On Friday, April 19, from 1 – 3 p.m. , the Peabody Park Preservation Committee will hold its semi-annual “Ivy Pull” If you’d like to volunteer to help clean up and remove invasive plants from sections of the Park, simply meet at the Peabody Park Bridge to join a team. Wear appropriate clothing; you may want to wear gloves.

Visual by David Wilson of a campus meadow.

Elizabeth Withers Stroud graduated in 1963. When she left, she left her yearbook and her degree behind, she said.

“It was not an experience I wanted to keep in my ‘joy circle’.”

One of the first dozen African American students at Woman’s College (now UNCG), she was the first alumna to speak at last Friday’s Reunion event. Nearly a hundred people attended.

“This is my first time back to campus,” she told everyone. She said that people like Chancellor Brady and Hermann Trojanowski reaching out to her had led her to return – to a place that held mixed memories.

She and the other alumni had toured Coit Hall earlier that day. She recalled being an excited freshman in 1959, a valedictorian of her high school class. As she moved in to Coit Hall – all African American students lived in one part of Coit Hall at that time – a white parent saw her. The parent told their daughter she’d need to move her things out, obviously due to the black students moving in. Stroud felt rejected. She felt isolated. Most professors were not supportive, she said, though there were exceptions.

She told a story: She and a black friend, Gwendolyn Jones, had experience dancing in high school. They were good. They auditioned for the junior class show; they expected to be on the cast list. They were not chosen. They volunteered to do the lighting. They were at every rehearsal. They set the lights – and when it came time for the hoe-down dance the night of the show, they came off their ladder and danced on stage with the classmates who’d been chosen. They did not cause a disruption, she explained. “We wanted to do what we thought we should be able to do – and we did that.” They were not chastised.

Stroud came to see that every person was informed and shaped by their unique backgrounds. She learned everyone was “working out of their own experience.”

“My experience (at UNCG) helped me,” she said. She had a very successful career at the Department of Commerce. She retired as the highest ranking career official there.

She spoke of talking with African American UNCG students in recent years, and finding that things are very different on campus today. Touring the campus that morning, she had seen “such variety, such diversity.” It was “beautiful,” she said.

Alice Russ Littlefield ‘63 was next to speak. “I felt like a complete alien,” she explained. “I was the only black kid (at WC/UNCG) from a rural area.”

Her experience at WC? “It absolutely crushed my self-esteem… I had been an A student.” She eventually did further her education, at graduate school at Howard University.

But she learned important things at this campus. She made the analogy to bodies of water. “It taught me how to get along in the ‘world pond’ – and I think I’ve done a relatively good job of functioning in the ‘world pond’ since.”

During her junior and senior years, she became very interested in the Civil Rights movement. She was arrested more than once during demonstrations in Greensboro, she said.

Before their remarks, Dean Rosann V. Bazirjian provided a welcome. Bonita Brown brought greetings from Chancellor Linda P. Brady. Herman Trojanowski spoke of the African American Institutional Memory Project. Divine Harmony, a UNCG student choral group, sang. Charlotte Williamson served as moderator.

A dozen or so black alumni from the 50’s and 60’s spoke. A few white alumni from the 50’s and 60’s shared their perspectives as well.

African-American alumni from the late 60’s observed that their experience was generally different. Caroline Suezette Brown Roney ‘67 noted that she didn’t see the instances of blatant racism that the earlier alumni described. “You really did pave the way,” she told the earlier alumni gathered near her.

A good number of current African American students asked questions and made observations. The moderator called the students “history in the making.”

The president of the UNCG Neo Black Society, Charnele Walton, a senior and public health major, spoke briefly. “I want to thank all these alumni for paving the way for us.” Her tears as she ended her remarks in mid-sentence, “We’re glad that you’re here –” expressed as much as her words.

Several alumni have passed away. Bettye Tillman died in the 60s, as did Diane Oliver. Gwendolyn Jones Magee died in 2011. These three were noted in the course of the conversations. But those who are telling their stories – through events like this – help carry all these alumni’s history forward.

“Tell your stories. They need to be shared,” JoAnne Smart Drane ‘60 told all the African American alumni present. She and the late Bettye Tillman were the first black students at WC/UNCG, moving into Shaw Residence Hall in 1956.

Drane explained that she too had not returned to campus for many years after graduating – 25 years, she recalled. She had a mixed experience as a student here. But an invitation to speak on campus by the student Neo Black Society – some of whose founders spoke at Friday’s event – finally drew her back to UNCG.

“What made me proudest when I came back to campus? The students,” she said.

She became vice president of the UNCG Alumni Association and later a UNCG Trustee – and saw that, at that time, a displayed collection of the campus’ history included many things, such as the first men on campus, but not the experiences of the early African American students on campus.

She and other alumni worked to change that. “We got the story told properly,” she said.

The UNCG University Libraries’ African American Institutional Memory Project already has many oral interviews – several more will be done in the coming months. Sixteen are available online at http://tinyurl.com/ag674ww

By Mike Harris
Photography by Wesley Brown. Visual on this page: Alice Russ Littlefield, with microphone. Visual on CW home page: Elizabeth Withers Stroud, in red at far right, was another 1963 alumna who spoke.

See related story about two WC students who were a part of the 1963 Tate Street protests.

“What kind of art is that in the Weatherspoon Parking Lot?” you might ask, this weekend. “It looks just like a Ferris Wheel.”

It is a Ferris Wheel. This year’s Spartapalooza carnival will feature mechanical rides.

Spartapalooza 2013 will be Saturday, April 20, 4-9 p.m.

This 2013 Spartapalooza carnival, in the Weatherspoon parking lot, will feature a Super Shot, Ferris Wheel, Bungee Run, Double Shot Basketball, photo koozies, graffiti T-shirts, a caricature artist, professional stilt walkers, face painting, balloon art, and carnival food and snacks. (Note – must be at least 18 to ride mechanical rides.)

The event is open for UNCG students, faculty, and staff. Be prepared to show UNCG ID.

Archival visual of an earlier Spartapalooza by David Wilson

The EUC reservation books opened on Monday, April 15, 2013, for events and meetings your department or organization would like to hold in Elliott University Center and other campus spaces (College Avenue, The Fountain, Foust Park, Kaplan Commons, Taylor Garden and Stone Lawn). Reservations may be made for any event occurring between July 1, 2013, and June 30, 2014.

The reservation books for the EUC and Atrium display cases, as well as the indoor railing and the outdoor banner space at the EUC, also opened on April 15. For more information, contact the EUC Reservations Office at 334-5378.