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Campus Compact is pleased to announce that Kimberly Buch, professor of psychology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte has been awarded Campus Compact’s Thomas Ehrlich Civically Engaged Faculty Award. The award, presented in partnership with Brown University’s Swearer Center, recognizes...
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By Mae Israel
After decades of being shunned by traditional corporate grocers rushing to expand elsewhere in the city, leaders in predominantly Black neighborhoods along West Boulevard have a new hope: that they finally will get a full-service, community-owned grocery store only minutes from their homes.
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As we chart a new path for Charlotte, how do we continue to form reciprocal teaching and research community partnerships to co-produce transformative solutions to the region's challenges?
Join the Office of Urban Research and Community Engagement to...
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By Mae Israel
The Community Innovation Incubator represents a new partnership between university researchers and Charlotte neighborhood residents to study a local issue and develop recommendations with an action plan. In this approach, residents are equals and full participants, not research subjects.
Mecklenburg County officials, who have...
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Bringing the vision into focus: Study groups zero in on West Charlotte food retail innovation
By Mae Israel
After weeks of research, a market study and discussions, a group of researchers from UNC Charlotte and Johnson C. Smith University, along with West Charlotte community experts who have been working on ways to increase...
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Empowering and engaging with the community in West Charlotte
By Mae Israel
Before joining the University of North Carolina at Charlotte as an associate professor of architecture and urban design, Nadia Anderson worked with a university design lab in Iowa that collaborated with community groups across the state to create new food...
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‘Fresh food access is a human right’ — Meet some of the people seeking change in West Charlotte
By Mae Israel
After years of pushing for better food access in West Charlotte neighborhoods, J’Tanya Adams and Rickey Hall have grown weary of broken promises and the failure of most traditional grocers to invest in their predominantly...
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Designing a new solution for food insecurity in West Charlotte
By Mae Israel
A large black-and-white sign on the front of the Stop N Shop convenience store on West Boulevard, the commercial center of several historic West Charlotte neighborhoods, invites customers inside with a promise: “We Sell Groceries.”
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Lori Thomas, Director of Research and Faculty Engagement at the UNC Charlotte Urban Institute, will assume the role of Interim Director of the institute effective May 1. Thomas will replace Jeff Michael, the Institute’s long-time director, who is leaving the position April 30 after serving 18 years to become North Carolina’s Deputy Secretary for Natural Resources....
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