For five years, UNCG’s Fulbright Teaching Excellence and Achievement Program has connected educators from around the world with local classrooms, faculty, and communities. Discover how this global exchange has reached 103 educators from 48 countries and territories—and how its impact continues to shape classrooms in Greensboro and beyond.
An opportunity to volunteer during spring break helped shape a career for Kristin Bogner ’21, ’22. Now the UNCG recreational therapy alumna helps adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities build connections, confidence, and independence at Camp Blue Skies.
From nursing to social work education, Fran Pearson has spent nearly two decades helping shape future leaders while building community partnerships that expand care across North Carolina. Discover how her belief in the power of relationships has created a lasting ripple effect at UNC Greensboro and beyond.
Every year, Camp SpeakaLot pairs graduate students from the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders with kids and teens who stutter. Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with fun summer activities, the camp helps the kids focus on acceptance of stuttering and building resilience and strength in themselves as communicators.
UNCG celebrated nearly four dozen students who spent a year doing community-engaged learning. The program connects students with internships and other avenues to turn their humanities skills into action.
The student-led organization gives students in the Department of Consumer, Apparel, and Retail Studies a stage to show their fashionable designs while also raising money for the fight against breast cancer.
A comment made by an alum to his former UNCG professor, Dr. Ryan Reynolds, got the latter thinking how he might put instruments in the hands of more young, eager students. He delivered on that goal with his most recent winter concert.
For Samantha Fynn, nursing was a calling, not just a career choice. Now she’s trading the classroom for the emergency room and a home at the coast.
Driven by connection, community, and intentionality, Naima Blakely embraced the humanities and philosophy at UNCG to expand her leadership skills and build a future rooted in service and personal growth.
As a senior in UNCG’s School of Education, AnnaGrace Berry is already doing what she once only imagined – leading her own classroom. Guided by resilience, empathy, and the support of her service dog, Berry has found purpose in teaching students with special needs while completing her student teaching.
