News & Events

UNC Asheville Celebrates 81st Annual Commencement

May 16, 2009

More than 4,000 family and friends gathered on UNC Asheville's Quadrangle Saturday morning to celebrate UNC Asheville's 2009 graduating class. Some 612 students were honored during the 81st annual Commencement Ceremony, including 365 spring graduates, 221 winter graduates and 26 summer graduates. They were all treated to an impromptu performance by honorary degree recipient Doc Watson as well as an inspiring commencement address by Thomas L. Purce.

UNC Asheville Debuts Television Series on Key Community Issues; Show Hosted by Chancellor Anne Ponder Airs on AET in Buncombe County

April 24, 2009

UNC Asheville will debut its first television series, "A Conversation with Asheville's University," at 10 p.m. Tuesday, April 28, on Asheville Educational Television. Hosted by UNC Asheville Chancellor Anne Ponder, the program brings together the region’s outstanding innovators, policy-makers and educators to discuss collaborative approaches to key community issues. The conversational program will focus on a different topic each week -- community health and wellness, environmental research and technology, K-12 education and teacher preparation, and new trends among Western North Carolina retirees. 

UNC Asheville's N.C. Center for Creative Retirement Director Ron Manheimer to Retire; Interim Director Named, National Search to Begin Later this Year

March 27, 2009

Ron Manheimer, founding director of UNC Asheville’s nationally renowned North Carolina Center for Creative Retirement (NCCCR), has announced that he will retire July 1, 2009. Manheimer, who will soon turn 66, has been Center director since August 1988.

$1.5 Million Gift to UNC Asheville to Fund Scholarships, Academic Needs

March 20, 2009

Current and future students at UNC Asheville will be the immediate beneficiaries of a recent $1.5 million gift to the University. The gift is among the largest ever made to UNC Asheville.

At the anonymous donor's request, $1 million will go toward scholarships and $500,000 toward operating support. The University will use $250,000 to purchase equipment needed for the University's new Zeis Science & Multimedia Building that will be dedicated this fall. The remaining $250,000 will be set aside to help create a new endowed faculty chair; those funds will be matched in future by private funds and by the state's Distinguished Professors Endowment Trust Fund, established by the N.C. General Assembly in 1985.