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Title: Charlotte and UNC Charlotte : growing up together
Author: Sanford, J. Kenneth
Subjects--Topical: University of North Carolina at Charlotte, North Carolina--Charlotte, Universities and colleges
Description: Charlotte might have built the nation’s first tax-supported university had an institution begun in 1771 survived the American Revolution, but it did not. Over the years, other efforts to establish a public college or university also failed. By the...

Title: Faculty experiences in active learning : a collection of strategies for implementing active learning across disciplines
Author: Keith-Le, Jules, Morgan, M.P. (Meg)
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Active learning, Universities and colleges--Study and teaching, Universities and college
Description: Faculty Experiences in Active Learning, a book authored by twenty-four faculty and administrators, works to ignite a culture of active learning in higher education at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. UNC Charlotte has been working to...

Title: Jewel in the crown : Bonnie Cone and the founding of UNC Charlotte
Author: Jeffers, William Thomas
Subjects--Topical: University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Cone, Bonnie E., 1907-2003, Universities and colleges
Description: Jewel in the Crown: Bonnie Cone and the Founding of UNC Charlotte chronicles the postwar development of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte from a temporary night school for returning veterans into a college, and eventually the fourth ca...

Title: Miss Bonnie's Nurses : the first fifty years of nursing at UNC Charlotte
Author: Newman, Ann Mabe, Haney, Harton Dona
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Nurses, Nursing schools--Alumni and alumnae
Description: Miss Bonnie’s Nurses: The First Fifty Years of Nursing at UNC Charlotte traces the history of the school to its position today as the premier choice for providing the highest quality of nursing education with a commitment to community engagement i...

Title: Prospect for success : a campus guide for developing success, inquiry, and cultural awareness in first year students
Author: Taylor, Bruce
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Undergraduates, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Commission on Colleges
Description: Prospect for Success: A Campus Guide for Developing Success, Inquiry and Cultural Awareness in First Year Students was developed and written by faculty and staff involved in the Prospect for Success program at UNC Charlotte. The Prospect for Succe...

Title: Race and social justice : building an inclusive college through awareness, advocacy, and action
Author: Jason, Kendra
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Social service and race relations, Diversity in the workplace, Anti-racism
Description: This book is designed to support college and university members as they navigate and aim to eliminate individual, interpersonal, and institutional discrimination and seek to create more inclusive workplaces and learning environments for faculty, s...

Title: Seeking new landscapes : one woman's photographic journey in April 1931 from Germany to the Middle East
Author: Gibson, Shimon
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Photography of women, Women photographers, Photography--Archive applications
Description: It is 1931 and Lily Waldthausen is from an affluent German family who sets out with her husband and children on a cruise that will take them along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea towards the Middle East. Lily has a professional camera to indulg...

Title: Students' pathway to success : a faculty guide
Author: Top 40 Academy
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Universities and colleges--Study and teaching, Education--Study and teaching (Higher)
Description: Welcome to Students' Pathway to Success: A Faculty Guide, our collection about ways to make teaching a more positive, productive and enjoyable experience. Written collaboratively by the Top 40 Academy, a faculty professional learning community at ...

Title: The odyssey for democracy : embracing the vision of hope and change in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Author: Curtis, Clark
Subjects--Topical: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Democracy
Description: Mirsad Hadzkadic never planned for a life in politics. Yet, in 2018, he decided to run for the Bosniak presidential council seat in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Mirsad made the life-changing decision to run, despite the fact that he had a successful, t...

Title: Understanding Latin American politics
Author: Weeks, Gregory
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Latin America, Central America, Caribbean Area
Description: This textbook integrates domestic and international factors for understanding Latin American politics. The thematic structure of the book is to utilize three different levels of analysis to explain Latin American politics: international, national,...

Title: Why does no one in my books look like me? Tobe and ongoing questions about race, representation, and identity
Author: Stokes, Quesinberry Ashli
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Children's literature, Black people--Race identity, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Description: Originally published in 1939, Tobe is a children's book portraying the daily lives of an African American boy and his siblings on a small farm in rural North Carolina. The book was written by a white woman, Stella Sharpe Gentry, and illustrated by...