Community and Engagement

Map of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia

Nov 26, 2024

Technician: Charlanta: Envisioning the Path to Inclusive, Sustainable Cities

For the NC State Office of University Interdisciplinary Programs's “Envisioning Urban Futures: Charlanta,” a presentation and demonstration-focused exploration into urban planning, students at Wake Stem Early College High School — a Wake County public school that is in partnership with the NC State College of Education — were tasked with researching data in the Charlanta regio, which extends along Interstate 85, from Charlotte, North Carolina to Atlanta, Georgia.

Nov 20, 2024

Austin Community College District Chancellor Russell Lowery-Hart Shares Advice for ‘Loving Students to Success’ During 2024 Dallas Herring Lecture

Russell Lowery-Hart, chancellor of the Austin Community College District and former president of Amarillo College, has become known as a leader who challenges others to “love students to success.” But, that love, he said, can’t happen at community colleges without data, action plans and transformative change.

A photo of a man and woman talking at the Dallas Herring Lecture

Nov 6, 2024

Dallas Herring Lecture Celebrates 10 Years of Impacting Community College Education

When Audrey Jaeger, the W. Dallas Herring Professor of community college education in the NC State College of Education and executive director of the Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research, originated the Dallas Herring Lecture, her goal was to create a gathering that moves away from a traditional academic lecture and engages community college leaders in critical and emerging conversations about community college student success.

Oct 16, 2024

Ofelia García Shares Importance of Translanguaging Pedagogies During Linguistic Diversity Speaker Series Organized by Goodnight Distinguished Professor Maria Coady

Ofelia García; Professor Emerita in Urban Education and Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures at the City University of New York (CUNY); shared the benefits of translanguaging pedagogies as the keynote speaker at the latest event part of the Linguistic Diversity Speaker Series, developed by Goodnight Distinguished Professor in Educational Equity Maria Coady.

$James O'Neal delivers the keynote speech during the 2023 Math Summit at NC State.$

Aug 7, 2024

James O’Neal ’06 Shares Tips to Help Math Teachers to ‘Make it Make Sense’ During 8th Annual Math Summit at NC State

During the eighth annual Math Summit on Aug. 6, 2024, College of Education alum James O’Neal shared with teachers the steps they can take to help their students achieve sensemaking in mathematics classrooms.

Aug 1, 2024

North Carolina Teachers Bring Cybersecurity to Classrooms with Help from GenCyber Teacher Camp Led By Professor of Learning, Design, and Technology Florence Martin

North Carolina middle and high school teachers are learning how to incorporate cybersecurity content into their classrooms through the GenCyber Teacher Camp, led by NC State College of Education Professor of Learning, Design, and Technology Florence Martin.

Team member at the Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research converse in the Belk Center's offices.

Jun 26, 2024

Supporting the Colleges That Serve Our Communities

The Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research at the College of Education drives collaboration to support North Carolina's 58 community colleges.

Former NC State College of Education Associate Dean speaking at the LIFT Closing Ceremony in 2022.

Jun 20, 2024

5 Questions with … Former NC State College of Education Associate Dean Anona Smith Williams ’91MS, ’02EDD Reflects on Leadership Institute for Future Teachers

In the summer of 1986, former NC State College of Education Associate Dean Anona Smith Williams '91MS, '02EDD led the creation of what would later become known as the Leadership Institute for Future Teachers, an invitational program hosted by the College of Education for students interested in teaching who are rising high school seniors in North Carolina.

Jun 20, 2024

Leadership Institute for Future Teachers Serves as Platform for Careers in Education

When the first group of high schoolers arrived on NC State's campus in the summer of 1986 to attend what would later become known as the Leadership Institute for Future Teachers, former Associate Dean Anona Smith Williams could not have expected the program would still be thriving today.

Two students part of the Literacy and Community Initiative event

May 17, 2024

Literacy and Community Initiative’s 5th Annual Reading Celebration Highlights Refugee Stories Through Art, Writing

With the support of a Catalyst Grant from the Friday Institute and the College of Education, the Literacy and Community Initiative (LCI) led a yearlong trauma-informed writing and art program for RHP refugee students that culminated April 29 during LCI’s fifth annual reading celebration and art show. It was RHP’s first art show with LCI, held at the North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA).