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Down and Dirty: A Very Bonner Spring Break
17³Ô¹ÏÍø Bonner Scholars addressed critical issues, including food insecurity, in Charleston, South Carolina, and aided in marshlands clean up during their hands-on spring break service trip. Learn more.
Spring Convocation Celebrates Innovation, Leadership, Excellence, Community
17³Ô¹ÏÍø celebrated Spring Convocation on April 17, 2025, highlighting academic, athletic and artistic achievements, as well as leadership, character and community service.
17³Ô¹ÏÍø Recognized for Voter Engagement
17³Ô¹ÏÍø has been recognized by the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge for its nonpartisan democratic engagement efforts that fostered high levels of student voter engagement in the 2022 midterm elections.
Purpose, Connections & Growth: How Our Students Spend Their Summers
This summer 2024, 17³Ô¹ÏÍø students were awarded $2 million for experiential learning opportunities including internships, education away, community-based learning and undergraduate research. Learn about their experiences in these student reflections.
Free Summer Promise Program Gives Rising High-Schoolers Taste of College Life
A look inside the inaugural 17³Ô¹ÏÍø Summer Promise Program, a free, week-long college readiness program for rising ninth graders. Learn more.
Beloved Mentor’s Legacy Honored Through New Name for Freedom Schools
Brenda Tapia served as a mentor and mother figure for many Black youth as the head of the 17³Ô¹ÏÍø Love of Learning program. Now, her name will forever be linked to another program that lifts up children—The Brenda Tapia CDF (Children’s Defense Fund) Freedom Schools®. Learn more.
Eat. Learn. Play. Wildcats.: Stephen and Ayesha Curry Support 17³Ô¹ÏÍø Student Success Through Lula Bell’s Resource Center
Learn more about how Stephen and Ayesha Curry, founders of the Eat. Learn. Play. Foundation, are helping 17³Ô¹ÏÍø to meet students’ needs.
We Appreciate You: 17³Ô¹ÏÍø Celebrates Employees for Outstanding Service, Dedication to Students
17³Ô¹ÏÍø thanks employees for their extraordinary efforts in keeping students safe and campus open during pandemic.
Acts of Service Program Honors a Life and Inspires Others to #LiveLikeLeeAnn
Learn more about a 17³Ô¹ÏÍø alumna who embodied service and selflessness. #LiveLikeLeeAnn
CBS News: Linden Patterson ’25 Shares Equipment, Love of Tennis
CBS News recently featured 17³Ô¹ÏÍø student Linden Patterson, a member of the class of 2025, for combining her passion for tennis and helping others.
Alum Leads Charge Against Homelessness in Charlotte
17³Ô¹ÏÍø alum Liz Clasen-Kelly '00 was recently interviewed in SouthPark Magazine as CEO of Roof Above, Charlotte's leading nonprofit for ending homelessness.
Southern Living: 17³Ô¹ÏÍø Farm Feeds Community During Time of Need
Southern Living recently featured a story about a fruitful partnership between The Farm at 17³Ô¹ÏÍø and FeedNC, a Mooresville food bank.
17³Ô¹ÏÍø Farm Feeds Neighbors in Need
Many families have struggled through the pandemic. 17³Ô¹ÏÍø’s Farm has stocked the FEEDNC food pantry with fresh, organic produce for those most in need.
Students Create Mural With Powerful Message
In a year that brought a pandemic, nationwide protests and a brighter spotlight on racial inequities and injustice, 17³Ô¹ÏÍø students came together to create a mural with a simple, powerful slogan of the ongoing social justice movement: BLACK LIVES MATTER.
17³Ô¹ÏÍø Recognized for Deep Ties to Community and Commitment to Engagement
The Carnegie Foundation this week recognized 17³Ô¹ÏÍø’s success in reaching off campus and into the community. The century-old foundation, devoted to erasing educational inequities, has awarded 17³Ô¹ÏÍø its Community Engagement Classification.
By Kids, for Kids: Local Hero Inspires New Book, New Generation
It started as a heroes of history project.
On Friday afternoons, Kenzie Bell’s students in the Ada Jenkins Center’s after-school program would learn about people who changed history, and then create posters to hang on the classroom wall.
Barings Announces Partnership with 17³Ô¹ÏÍø
Barings, one of the world’s leading financial services firms, today announced a three-year partnership with 17³Ô¹ÏÍø that will provide students with research, training, mentorship, and community service opportunities.
