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by Mae Israel On one end of adjacent shopping centers on North Sharon Amity Road in east Charlotte, an Ethiopian restaurant and grocery offers the spongy flatbread injera and a special cultural coffee ceremony. On the other is a Middle Eastern bakery and grocery, which sells several types of baklava and freshly baked pita bread. […]

Nearly a year after their initial meeting, residents and community leaders of the West Sugar Creek corridor have drafted a proposal to bring their community together […]

Marjorie Parker believes in the future of Hidden Valley, a neighborhood she’s called home for 47 years. So does Merritt McCully, who has lived there a little over four years. Elena Peguero? As a newcomer to the community from the Dominican Republic, she dreams of buying a home in the neighborhood soon […]

Shortly after joining UNC Charlotte nearly 10 years ago as a clinical assistant professor in the School of Social Work, Roger Suclupe noticed there wasn’t a course to help students learn about Mecklenburg County’s rapidly growing Hispanic and Latino communities.

With the help of a graduate student, Suclupe developed a course and began a partnership with a nearby health center in the Sugar Creek area. Later, he expanded student training to Hidden Valley Elementary School, where the majority […]

Fifty years ago, Odell Witherspoon moved into northeast Charlotte’s Hidden Valley neighborhood, attracted by the nice houses and large backyards. “It was,” he said, “a destination neighborhood, an ideal neighborhood.” But that legacy is eroding, and Witherspoon is […]

Earlier this semester, the Women + Girls Research Alliance convened “Taking Space without Apology: A Women and Girls Leadership Café.” This effort brought together the collective voices representing UNC Charlotte faculty; staff; community leaders; and middle, high school and college students from across the Charlotte metro area to engage with local organizations committed to building […]

The Women + Girls Research Alliance (W+GRA) is excited to announce their 2023-2024 Seed Grants recipients. Each of the grants emphasize community partnerships and community-engaged research activities that address the critical areas of mental health and wellness, economic security/mobility, and equity in the Charlotte metropolitan area. W+GRA has awarded each grantee, or team $5000 each […]

Byron P. White, associate provost, urban research and community engagement for UNC Charlotte’s urbanCORE, has been named a 2023-24 Campus Compact Fellow. Compact fellows are expert practitioners and field leaders who help to advance the work of Campus Compact, a national coalition of colleges and universities that offers support to higher education senior leaders, faculty, […]

Interested in community-engaged research or teaching and don’t know where to start? Do you want to discuss a CE problem with an expert? Join Kim Buch in the Engaged Faculty Lounge on Wednesday, October 25 from 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. at Sycamore 302. Add event to your calendar) During engaged faculty lounge hours, you […]

Across the Charlotte region, we are molded by the places we connect and the relationships we develop in those spaces. Our neighborhoods, schools, houses of worship, where we work, where we play, where we create – we shape them and they shape us. Beyond being a simple backdrop of our daily lives, recent research by […]