Some 31 students recently completed Teaching
Fellows orientation at the University of North Carolina at
Asheville. These students are Jonathan Paul Absher, Keiyonna Nichole
Barnes, Christopher McAlan Beard, Ashleigh Elizabeth Benson, Robert
Caleb Blanton, Sarah Kathleen Brower, Casey Rae Carpenter, Seth
Francis Chandler, John Willis Coggin, Scarlett Fawn College, Cassidy
Jane Culbertson, Holly Elizabeth Dellinger, Mary Kathleen Gordon,
James Bradley Grady, Jessica Vidette Harrison, Misty Dawn Harville,
Paul McKayne Hill, Andrew Douglas Jones, J. Dane Jorgensen, Carrie
Elizabeth Miller, Alex Nicole Neidermeier, Sarah Paige Nicholson,
Auston Michael Pisani, Kendra Michelle Rice, Julie Ann Reese, Casey
Jay Riddle, Kevin Dean Shuford, Elizabeth Ashley Smith, Glynis
Jivoff Watson, Rebekah Loraine Williams and Amy Marie Wolf.
The orientation, designed to offer a smooth transition from high
school to college, provided the incoming class of Teaching Fellows
with important information about campus, the Education Department
and the Teaching Fellows program.
Upon arrival at UNC Asheville, upper class Teaching Fellows greeted
and helped the new students move into their new dorms. Students,
family members and friends were invited to a welcome dinner with
faculty and the Kathy Whatley, Interim Vice Chancellor of Academic
Affairs. New and upper class Teaching Fellows spent the rest of the
evening getting to know the Asheville area and enjoyed bowling and
karaoke during "college night" at local bowling lanes.
The North Carolina Teaching Fellows program is designed to attract
high school seniors into the teaching field. Each year the program
awards 500 North Carolina high school seniors a $26,000 scholarship
for four years of undergraduate study. In return, students must
teach four years in North Carolina public schools. At UNC Asheville,
the scholarship funds much of the college experience. Additional
scholarship money is provided by the University for Teaching Fellows
to visit schools in large American cities and for travel and study
in Cambridge, England. UNC Asheville is one of the 18 public and
private North Carolina colleges and universities approved to
participate in the Teaching Fellows Program.
For more information about UNC Asheville’s Teaching Fellows Program,
call Brenda Hopper, Teaching Fellows Program Director, at
828/251-6901.
