UNC faculty, students and alumni have played a crucial role in a new cultural tourism project to revitalize downtown Shelby, N.C. This includes the new Earl Scruggs Center, which opened in January in the town's renovated 1907 courthouse.
Since its inception, the program has been predicated on the idea that knowledge of the humanities – from history to philosophy to literature to the performing arts – equips people to be better citizens of a democracy, Kramer said.
Christopher Armitage came to Carolina’s English department in fall 1967 at age 36 and has received many accolades for teaching 17th- and 20th-century English and Canadian literature.
During the summer, professors squeeze the works of the Bard of Avon into 4½ weeks of summer session or the 12 days of Maymester.