GREENSBORO – Chancellor Frank Gilliam is proud of UNC Greensboro’s recent ranking by U.S. News & World Report as the No. 1 university in North Carolina for social mobility.1 Not only that, Gilliam notes in the accompanying video, but UNCG is one of just five universities in the country with more than 50% of students… READ MORE

GREENSBORO – Officials at UNC Greensboro have a firm grasp on who their students are: 34% are first-generation college students. 51% are eligible for low-income Pell Grants. 51% are non-white. 26% are from rural counties. That means paying special attention to students’ needs in curriculum, advising and financial aid, Andrew Hamilton, UNCG’s Associate Vice Provost… READ MORE

GREENSBORO – The number of students at UNC Greensboro has grown steadily in recent years, making the university a richer, more diverse community. “We’re now over 20,000 students,” UNCG Chancellor Frank Gilliam says in the accompanying video. “Which makes us sort of big enough to matter, but still small enough that we can provide our… READ MORE

GREENSBORO – Some 80 percent of students at UNC Greensboro work either full- or part-time. “I like to call us an ‘Earn It’ school,” UNCG Chancellor Frank Gilliam declares in the accompanying video. “They’re not here on their family’s money. They work, and work hard – some of them two and three jobs. Some 40… READ MORE

GREENSBORO – UNC Greensboro recently revised its General Education (or “Gen Ed”) requirements to take more of a multi-disciplinary approach to an increasingly complex world. Starting in the fall of 2021, entering students would be required to meet 11 basic competencies by choosing from a broad array of classes. As might be expected, the new… READ MORE

REIDSVILLE – Things are different this year at Moss Street Partnership School – just ask the kids. In 2016, the NC General Assembly asked UNC institutions to establish “lab schools” at nearby low-performing K-12 schools. The idea was to improve student outcomes with state-of-the-art instruction, but also to give aspiring educators real-world experience in high-demand… READ MORE

REIDSVILLE – Everyone learns best by doing – so that’s what they do at Moss Street Partnership School. In the accompanying video, Christina O’Connor of UNC Greensboro’s School of Education describes how UNCG and the Moss Street Partnership School work together to find as many ways as possible for students to engage in experiences. O’Connor… READ MORE

REIDSVILLE – One of the innovative approaches the Moss Street Partnership School uses is to ignore arbitrary distinctions of what grade a child is in. Over and over, school officials declare, “We meet students where they are.” “We don’t teach third grade here.  We don’t teach kindergarten or first grade.  We teach kids,” Christina O’Connor… READ MORE