News
The Black Male Academic Forum during the Democratic National Convention co-hosted by the Urban Education Collaborative (Dr. Chance W. Lewis) and the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (Dr. Ivory A. Toldson) sparks idea for 5 students to attend the Presidential Inauguration. Click Here for more details.
Marcia Watson, Belk Graduate Assistant and Doctoral Fellow in the Urban Education Collaborative has been nominated for the prestigious PEO Scholar Award. Awards will be announced in May.
Doctoral Fellow Abiola Farinde and Dr. Ayana Allen’s paper entitled Cultural Dissonance: Exploring the Relationship between White Female Teachers’ Perception and Urban Black Female Students’ Disciplinary Infractions was accepted in the National Journal of Urban Education and Practice.
Mr. Derrick Robinson, Doctoral Fellow with The Urban Education Collaborative at UNC Charlotte, will be presenting at UNC Charlotte Building Better Brothers Program and the 3rd Annual Minority Male Symposium on the campus of UNC Charlotte on January 25, 2013. The title of his presentation is, “Ten Things Every Minority Male Should Know.”
The Urban Education Collaborative is pleased to announce that Dr. Lewis, Director of The Urban Education Collaborative, has been selected to serve on the African American Male Task Force in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (Charlotte, NC). This task force will conceptualize short and long term goals to be included in the revised district strategic plan for the […]
The Urban Education Collaborative received a $10,000 grant (Chance W. Lewis, PI and JuliAnna Avila, Co-PI) to implement the Beyond the Bricks Community Producer program for Black Males ages 16-19 at UNC Charlotte. This program will begin January 2013 in the UNC Charlotte Center City Campus. For more information about the Beyond the Bricks Community […]
The Urban Education Collaborative welcomes its 2nd cohort of Doctoral Fellows. These doctoral fellows selected through a rigorous process will be provided with intensive mentoring in preparation for future employment as professors and scholars upon completion of this program. These students will also receive travel funding to the AERA national conference in San Francisco, CA […]
Chance W. Lewis, Director of the Urban Education Collaborative, presented at the AVID National Conference in San Diego, California. The topic of his presentation was “Removing the Barriers to African American Male Achievement: The Impact of Culturally Relevant Instruction and Low Teacher Expectations on College Readiness.
Dr. Lewis, Director of the Urban Education Collaborative, presented at the National Association of Multicultural Education in Philadelphia, PA. The topic of the presentation was African American Students in Urban Schools: Critical Issues and Solutions for Achievement.
The Urban Education Collaborative in partnership with Sugar Creek Charter School (Charlotte, North Carolina) have launched an exciting new initiative called SchoolWise. Please click HERE to learn more information. Click HERE to view a newspaper article in the Charlotte Observer highlighted this unique partnership.
We are pleased to provide our first annual report highlighting activities from October 2011 – September 30, 2012. For any questions, please contact Dr. Chance W. Lewis at chance.lewis@uncc.edu.
Dr. Lewis has been invited to present on a panel session entitled “Health Education and Literacy Policy (HELP) for School-Age Black Children” during the 42nd Annual Legislative Conference of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation in Washington, DC.