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Among other topics, Kay Norton announced that part of the funding for the Campus Commons project will come from bonds backed by an annual $160 student fee. Two Pulitzer Prize winning photographers will visit UNC on Tuesday. Barry Gutierrez and Linda McConnell, two photojournalists who contributed to the Rocky Mountain News’ coverage of the Columbine shooting, will speak at 6:30 p.m. in the University Center’s Pike’s Peak Ballroom. The event is free and open to the public. UNC’s football team will play two major powerhouses in college football in 2017. The University of Florida Gators and the University of Colorado Buffs will play the Bears on weeks two and three. Both games will be away for UNC, but the university will receive 1,700 tickets to sell to its students for the CU game. UNC will make $625,000 from the game against Florida, and $350,000 for its game against the Buffs. $41,000 of Federal grant money was given to UNC to fund scholarships for early childhood education and special education. The grant came from the U.S. Department of Education, and is part of the Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge Fund.
A member of Fahrenheit 360, an organization of fire-spinners in Greeley, spins a fire staff at the Alana Street Bash Wednesday evening at Doubenmier Field. Photo by Andrés Ramirez | The Mirror.
STUDENTS LIGHT UP STREET BASH
UNC’s César Chávez and Marcus Garvey Cultural Centers, Asian/Pavices along with Greeley Unexpected, held a street bash to celebrate about UNC’s cultural centers.
The position of Assitant Vice President of Equity and Inclusion is still in the process of being filled. Open forums for the remaining candidates will be held this week. The forums will be especially prescient given the recent criticsm leveled at some of UNC’s social justice initiatives, namely the Bias Response Team, which would have been supervised by the AVP of Equity and Inclusion had the team not been disbanded by President Norton. The position was created last year after Norton held several listening sessions with UNC community
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