News & Events
UNC Asheville's N.C. Center for Creative Retirement Director Ron Manheimer to Retire; Interim Director Named, National Search to Begin Later this Year
March 27, 2009
Ron Manheimer, founding director of UNC Asheville’s nationally renowned North Carolina Center for Creative Retirement (NCCCR), has announced that he will retire July 1, 2009. Manheimer, who will soon turn 66, has been Center director since August 1988.
UNC Asheville Honors Alumni with Annual Awards
March 24, 2009
UNC Asheville recently honored four of its most outstanding alumni with the University's annual National Alumni Awards. UNC Asheville Chancellor Anne Ponder and UNC Asheville National Alumni Council Chair Neal Rhoades (Class of 1986) presented the awards at a special dinner on campus on March 23, 2009.
$1.5 Million Gift to UNC Asheville to Fund Scholarships, Academic Needs
March 20, 2009
Current and future students at UNC Asheville will be the immediate beneficiaries of a recent $1.5 million gift to the University. The gift is among the largest ever made to UNC Asheville.
At the anonymous donor's request, $1 million will go toward scholarships and $500,000 toward operating support. The University will use $250,000 to purchase equipment needed for the University's new Zeis Science & Multimedia Building that will be dedicated this fall. The remaining $250,000 will be set aside to help create a new endowed faculty chair; those funds will be matched in future by private funds and by the state's Distinguished Professors Endowment Trust Fund, established by the N.C. General Assembly in 1985.
UNC Asheville Welcomes New Live Mascot, "Rocky I"; Rescued Victorian Bulldog Makes Debut at Homecoming Basketball Game
February 19, 2009
UNC Asheville's bulldog mascot, Rocky, has been known for decades to be tenacious, strong and courageous… now rescued can be added to this list of traits.
The University will unveil its new live mascot "Rocky I," a rescued white Victorian Bulldog with black spots, at half-time of the men's basketball homecoming game against Coastal Carolina. The game tips off at 4:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 21, at UNC Asheville's Justice Center. Rocky I will make his triumphant entrance following the presentation of the 2009 Athletics Hall of Fame inductees.
National Public Liberal Arts Colleges Organization Moves to UNC Asheville; Professor Bill Spellman Named First Executive Director
January 28, 2009
UNC Asheville, a longtime leader in public liberal arts education, will now host the national headquarters for the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges (COPLAC). Founded in 1987, COPLAC is a highly regarded consortium of 25 undergraduate U.S. and Canadian institutions dedicated to the advancement of public liberal arts education.
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