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A four-day event organized by the university’s Center for Engaged Learning has drawn to North Carolina hundreds of scholars from around the world with an interest in the “disruptive forces” that are changing the way students learn.

In ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ’s 2013 Baird Pulitzer Prize Lecture, author Taylor Branch reminds his audience that despite progress born from the civil rights movement, the American system of government and its democratic principles remain fragile.

The award includes a film set and $1,200 programming stipend to be used to provide scholarly presentations and exhibit four documentaries with new footage illustrating the history of civil rights in America.

The associate professor of English on Sept. 10 discussed her new book, "Beyond 'The Chinese Connection': Contemporary Afro-Asian Cultural Production," with host Frank Stasio.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Junot Díaz shared with an ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ audience on Tuesday his approach to writing, his concerns about the way minorities are marginalized in the United States - and how he thinks American youth can change the world.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ students, faculty and staff visited the center on the first floor of Belk Library to learn more about support and services available to the campus community.

Kevin Boyle had poems published in The Hollins Critic, Fourth River, and Briar Cliff Review.  

A writer and photographer, Aaron Bardo '09 is participating in a worldwide competition for a chance to earn $100,000 and spend a year traveling and exploring the world on behalf of Jauntaroo.

"Preparing Advocates: Service-Learning in TESOL for Future Mainstream Educators," by associate professor Jessie L. Moore, appears in the September 2013 issue of TESOL Journal.