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UNC Asheville Welcomes 645 Freshmen on Friday; Fall Semester Classes Begin August 17
August 12, 2009
UNC Asheville is preparing to welcome some 645 new Bulldogs to its ranks this Friday as freshmen move onto campus. Fall semester classes begin Monday, Aug. 17.
"The Class of 2013 is one of the larger classes," noted Barkley Barton, senior assistant director of Admissions. "And the overall academic profile of this class is very strong – among their ranks are several valedictorians and many truly outstanding students with high grade point averages and great college entrance test scores."
UNC Asheville Announces Summer Graduates
August 10, 2009
The following students received bachelor's degrees from UNC Asheville in July 2009. They are listed by their hometown.
The Value of Farmland: A New Study Shows Why We Want to Protect the Vanishing Countryside
August 9, 2009
While many people profess to love America's vanishing rural landscape, no research has ever been done to pinpoint exactly why people value it. Until now.
A four-year research project recently completed by Leah Greden Mathews, associate professor of economics at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, was able to determine the specific reasons people appreciate farmlands as well as to put a price tag on those values in Western North Carolina. The study, the first of its kind in the nation, looked beyond the obvious agricultural value of farms in the four-county area around the University. The team developed an enhanced land evaluation and site assessment (LESA) model that incorporates the scenic beauty and cultural heritage characteristics of the landscape. Mathews argues that the same model can be applied to rural areas across the nation, helping prioritize land for protection.
UNC Asheville Professor, Noted Artist Virginia Derryberry Featured in New American Paintings Magazine
August 6, 2009
Artists are modern-day alchemists, taking dross materials and turning them into desirable objects worth more than the sum of their parts. Virginia Derryberry, a noted painter and UNC Asheville art professor, takes it one step further. Her most recent series of paintings meld alchemical themes with modern interpretations on mythology to create larger-than-life pieces that have met with national acclaim.
UNC Asheville Professor Appointed to the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium
July 31, 2009
UNC Asheville Philosophy Professor Gordon Wilson was recently appointed as a fellow at the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts for the 2011-2012 academic year. Each year, just some 10 fellowships are granted to eminent scholars, scientists and artists from around the world.
UNC Asheville Board of Trustees Elects New Officers, Welcomes New Members; First Ever Alumnus Named Chair
July 30, 2009
The UNC Asheville Board of Trustees elected new officers at its July meeting on the UNC Asheville campus. James R. Buckner, president and owner of IMPACT Educational Consulting Associates Inc. and a 1971 alumnus of UNC Asheville, was elected chair. Joseph F. Damore, president and CEO of Mission Health and Hospitals, was elected vice chair, and Audrey Byrd Moseley, deputy general counsel for the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. and a 1974 alumna of UNC Asheville, was elected secretary.
UNC Asheville Featured in Princeton Review's "The Best 371 Colleges"
July 30, 2009
UNC Asheville is featured in the 2010 edition of the Princeton Review's "The Best 371 Colleges." The annual guidebook highlights the top 10% of institutions nationally as "cream of the crop colleges and universities." The rankings are based in part on a survey of more than 122,000 college students, who provide candid assessments of their institutions.
UNC Asheville Joins with City of Asheville, YMI Cultural Center to Offer Classes; Three Fall Semester Courses to be Held at YMI Cultural Center
July 15, 2009
Interested in the Harlem Renaissance, cultural practices of childrearing or racial health equity? These thought-provoking topics will be the focus of three UNC Asheville classes open to the public for the fall semester.
The University, in collaboration with the City of Asheville and the YMI Cultural Center, will offer these three upper-level, for-credit courses to the public beginning August 18. Classes will meet from 4:30-7 p.m. through December 8 at the YMI Cultural Center, located on the corner of Eagle and Market streets in downtown Asheville.
UNC Asheville Earns Top Spot in Fiske Guide to Colleges; University Named Best Buy for 16 Consecutive Years
July 1, 2009
As the 2010 college rankings begin to roll in, UNC Asheville continues to stand with some of the nation's finest colleges. The annual "Fiske Guide to Colleges" released its 2010 list of Best Buys of American and Canadian colleges earlier this month. UNC Asheville is alone among public colleges in Western North Carolina to earn a spot on the list. It is the 16th consecutive year that UNC Asheville has been named a Best Buy.
UNC Asheville Prepares for Further State Budget Reductions
July 1, 2009
Acting on instructions from the University of North Carolina General Administration to plan for a 10 percent permanent budget reduction for the 2009-10 fiscal year, UNC Asheville announced plans to eliminate 43 positions, which will result in the loss of jobs for eight current staff members.
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