Despite having no formal education, Gus and Josephine Locklear made higher education attainable for their 11 children through hard work and lifelong sacrifices.
UNC Pembroke's alumni magazine was awarded the Award of Excellence at the North Carolina Public Relations Society of America's (NCPRSA) annual InSpire Awards ceremony.
Enrollment has hit an all-time high as more students choose UNC Pembroke as their college of choice. The upward trend comes as the Office of Admissions overcame challenges with limited campus visitors and travel restrictions due to the pandemic.
PBS North Carolina, in partnership with the UNC System and the Board of Governors Committee on Historically Minority-Serving Institutions (HMSI), announces the new series The Innovators: The Transformative Power of NC's Historically Black and American Indian Universities.
The UNC Pembroke School of Education has been awarded a five-year, $1.1 million federal grant to increase the number of highly qualified American Indian teachers committed to serving American Indian communities.
Craig Karges reads minds, levitates tables and bends metal. His show "Experience the Extraordinary" will be Givens Performing Arts Center's first public performance since March 2020.
UNC Pembroke graduate Octavia Johnson was among 21 students nationwide selected to attend the 2021 National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) Student Multimedia Project.
The event, considered a training ground for future media professionals, was held virtually August 18-21.
Species, an exhibit opening September 3, 2021, at the Artists League of the Sandhills, will feature work by Brandon Sanderson, professor of art at The University of North Carolina at Pembroke.
The UNCP School of Education is among a select group of educator preparation programs in the UNC System chosen to serve as Literacy Innovation Leaders.
Dr. Namyeon Lee, an assistant professor who joined the UNCP Department of Mass Communication this semester, has published the results of an experiment that tested news articles against infographics for conveying information about genetically modified food.
Cummings Aerospace facilitated a day of exploration for high schoolers attending Project 3C Aerospace and Engineering Careers Camp. Twenty summer campers traveled to Huntsville, Ala., on July 20 to spend the day at Cummings Aerospace.
Dr. Gerald Neal, an associate professor in the Master of School Administration program at UNC Pembroke from Laurinburg, recently celebrated the release of his second book, The Trauma-Sensitive School: Transforming Education to Heal Social and Emotional Wounds.
