Through funding from the American Association of University Women, the Find Your STEM, Shape Your Future camp welcomed 32 rising seventh, eighth, and ninth grade girls from Guilford County School to UNCG.
Harriet Evenson came to the Woman’s College, today known as UNC Greensboro, focused on how she wanted to make a difference in the world. She graduated in 1953 with a degree in history and wanted to become a teacher.
Before he came to UNCG, before he became a high school principal, and before the National Association of Secondary School Principals named him the 2026 National Principal of the Year, Jason Johnson ’02 MSA, ’11 EdS was a high school kid in Durham watching the way his own principal at Hillside High School demonstrated leadership.
Founded in 1477, Tübingen is the oldest university in Germany, is located in a picturesque medieval city, and for 10 days this spring was the home for eight UNC Greensboro teacher education students and two faculty members. The group travelled to Germany to engage in cross-cultural interactions and explorations.
From the U.S. Army to the classroom, doctoral candidate Tyler Bacote’s journey is a powerful reminder that education can transform lives.
In her first year as an exceptional children’s teacher at Southern Guilford High School, Natalia Fagundez ’25 works to help students advance their math skills.
From UNCG Student to Fourth-Grade Teacher Malcolm Jones, an Elementary Education student in the Department of Teacher Education and Higher Education, has been named the 2026 UNCG Student Teacher of the Year. Jones completed his student teaching in a fourth-grade classroom at Caleb’s Creek Elementary School in Kernersville. Jones will now represent UNC Greensboro at the upcoming Student Teacher of the Year… Continue reading…
Dr. Marcia Rock, a professor in UNC Greensboro’s Department of Specialized Education Services, served as an editor of the recent publication Transforming the Special Education Workforce: Research and Complex Systems Perspectives. The volume was written for the American Educational Research Association and is the first work that unifies special education… Continue reading…
School of Education scholar Shameeka M. Wilson ’18, ’20 MEd established an endowment at UNCG in 2019 as she was finishing her master’s program. Her first scholarship was awarded in 2020.
Harriet Shain Evenson ’53 built her legacy around a simple charge: Make more teachers. Her lifelong commitment to public education – shared with her husband, Jerome – culminated in the largest gift in UNCG history, one that will transform the School of Education beyond her expectations.
