This February, share what you love about UNC Charlotte!
Perhaps you recall your first visit to campus during orientation, a favorite class, or an outstanding professor. Maybe you remember a special friendship, an all-night study session in Atkins Library, or cheering our Charlotte 49ers to victory.
Join Niner Nation by supporting what you love!
1. Make a gift in support of your favorite program, scholarship or department.
2. Share the love on social using #iLOVEUNCC.
3. Tag a friend who shares your 49er love, too.
Love came in the form of a friend request for Courtney Palazzo ‘14 and Kenny Bailey ‘12. The two met during the spring semester of Palazzo’s freshman year in 2011. She was studying in McEniry Hall when he approached her. Palazzo asked one of her Zeta Tau Alpha sorority sisters who he was, found him on Facebook and sent him a friend request.
First came the exchange of messages online, then came an impromptu snack date during a break in the Greek Games. Finally—with a little interference from a friend—Palazzo took Bailey, a Kappa Sigma member, as her date to a sorority function. Read more here.
Tori Brasher ’13 M.Ed. loves UNC Charlotte because it gave her a chance to give back.
Brasher, a North Carolina Principal Fellow, said the deciding factor in choosing UNC Charlotte for her master’s in educational leadership was that it offered her a graduate assistantship that allowed her to work directly with students in the North Carolina Teaching Fellows program. Brasher had earned her undergraduate degree in education as a teaching fellow.
As a grad student, she worked closely with Cato College of Education faculty members Misty Cowan-Hathcock, James Lyons and Jim Bird, whose lessons she carries with her today as an assistant principal.
“They really impressed upon me being genuine, being yourself and standing up for what you believe is in the best interest of children,” said Brasher, a Greensboro native.
Read more here.
