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The Urban Education Collaborative and Dr. Lewis would like to congratulate Tempestt Adams, who is a doctoral candidate in the Ph.D. program in urban education. On October 16th, Tempestt was honored by the University of North Carolina at Charlotte Graduate School as 1 of 3 doctoral candidates from the University who received the prestigious Lucille […]

City Startup Labs (CSL) is establishing a Center of Excellence for Entrepreneurial Competency, Innovation and Leadership (CoE) at UNC Charlotte, in association with Ventureprise, a campus-based venture development organization.  In partnership with the University’s Urban Education Collaborative, the CoE will research the effect that this education can have on young black men to address wealth […]

The Urban Education Collaborative is pleased to announce several Internship and Doctoral Fellows opportunities for the 2015-2016 academic year. We ask that you review the position descriptions and submit the required information if you have an interest in any of these positions. Click HERE to download these position descriptions.

The public forum, My Brother’s Keeper: Plotting the Path through HBCUs for African American Males, was held Saturday, August 1st, at Friendship Missionary Baptist Church in Charlotte, NC. The forum highlighted keynote speaker, Dr. Ivory A. Toldson, and featured speaker, Dr. Chance W. Lewis. The panelist discussion spotlighted access barriers for African American males in high education as well […]

The Urban Education Collaborative, in partnership with the Center for International Understanding, traveled to Singapore summer 2015 to learn from Singapore’s exemplar education system! Collaborative staff, Dr. Ayana Allen and Dr. Stephen Hancock, along with doctoral student, Aimy Steele, reported an enriched educational experience and were excited for the opportunity. Click here for more photos! 

Our graduate organization, Urban Educators for Change, which is advised by Dr. Lewis, has published their first newsletter!  You can read their first installment here.

The Urban Education Collaborative and the Urban Educators for Change Graduate Student Organization in the College of Education hosted its 3rd Annual Spring 2015 – Poster Session. This Poster Session features the current research of doctoral students in Urban Education. Additionally, this allows the College of Education community to interact with the future leaders in […]

Dr. Stephen Hancock, (Assistant Director) Dr. Ayana Allen (Post-Doctoral Fellow), and Dr. Chance Lewis’s (Director)  book, Autoethnography as a Lighthouse: Illuminating Race, Research, and the Politics of Schooling was recently released by Information Age Publishing.

Dr. Ayana Allen’s (Post-Doctoral Fellow) book chapter titled Leveraging the Cultural Wealth in Family and Friend Networks: An Examination of Undocumented Latino College Students’ Support Systems and Academic Achievement  was published in the recently released book Student Involvement and Academic Outcomes: Implications for Diverse College Student Populations by Donald Mitchell Jr. (Grand Valley State University), Krista Soria (University of […]

Dr. Chance Lewis was chosen as a Young Black Male (YBM) Leadership Alliance Success Leader in the Charlotte Community for Black History Month.  The YBM Leadership Alliance is a leading college preparation and leadership development program for young black men.  You can find out more about YBM by clicking here.  You can see the video […]