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Office of Public Relations Records

The Office of Public Relations was part of the Division of University Advancement. The office served as UNC Charlotte's primary contact with members of the news media and external audiences. They were responsible for communicating information that promoted the people, programs, news, and events of UNC Charlotte. This digital collection contains video recordings created through the Office of Public Relations, and does not reflect the entire physical collection. For more information about the collection, visit https://findingaids.uncc.edu/repositories/6/resources/888.

: UNC Show--Interviews (Beta) Dr. Sandra Govan--McNair Scholars Program (#4); An interview with Dr. Sandra Govan, associate professor of English at UNC Charlotte, for the UNC Show about the McNair Scholars program. Dr. Govan gives an overview of the federally-funded scholarship program, which provides scholarships for first generation and underrepresented students, and how it is run at UNC Charlotte. At UNC Charlotte, it is largely a summer program that is focuses on research and preparing students for a graduate program, and the program accepts students from Johnson C. Smith and UNC Charlotte.

: UNC Show--Interviews (Beta) Keith Wassum--Barnhardt Student Activities Center (#1); An interview with Keith Wassum, the Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Life and Facilities at UNC Charlotte, and tour of the Barnhardt Student Activities Center. Mr. Wassum walks through and describes different areas of the Student Activities Center (SAC), including the weight room and fitness facilities, basketball arena, indoor track, food court, and game center. He describes how after the center was built, UNC Charlotte could finally have commencement on campus again and host large basketball games and other events. Visitors to the center are shown in the recording using gym equipment and dining in the food court.

: UNC Show--Interviews (Beta)--Denise Trauth, Provost; An interview with Denise Trauth, Interim Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs. She is responsible for all academic programs, six colleges, and academic support services. Dr. Trauth discusses how UNC Charlotte is an exciting place to work because it is growing in size and adding new programs, including PhD programs. She describes how UNC Charlotte began offering its first three PhD programs in 1994 and is working on implementing two more, including a program in information technology. Dr. Trauth also described new graduate programs in biology, information science, and pre-K education. She discusses how UNC Charlotte offers high quality programs that are competitive across the country, hires talented faculty, and provides competitive internships and externships for students. Dr. Trauth also talks about the strong support that UNC Charlotte has always had from the Charlotte community, and how UNC Charlote will be North Carolina's next great university.

: UNC Show--Interviews (Beta) Rhonda Watlington--Barnhardt Student Activities Center (#2); At 1:40, the interview with Rhonda Watlington, Assistant Director, Event Services Manager at UNC Charlotte, begins in the catering kitchen in the Barnhardt Student Activities Center (SAC). She discusses catering services for different kind of events and conferences on campus. The video also features other kitchen staff and a catering buffet setup for a conference. At around 13:40, Ms. Watlington describes the interior design, technology, and amenities in the SAC. At around 18:45, Ms. Watlington discusses the Game Room on the second level of the SAC, which overlooks the food court. The cameraperson records video of students playing arcade games, foosball and billiards.

: UNC Show--Interviews (Beta) Student Mos; An unknown interviewer asks students why they chose UNC Charlotte over other colleges and universities and records their name and year in college. Answers include: urban city experience; close to home; liked the Communications department; have a nursing program; likes Charlotte; Charlotte is a growing city with music and arts; the weather/climate; diverse student body; growing university; friends and family at the university; friendly atmosphere; and the business program.

: UNC Show--Interviews (Beta) Distant Learning (#2); An interview with Dr. William E. Laukaitis, Instructional Production Coordinator and Video Manager at UNC Charlotte, and recording of the video studio and distance learning programs. Dr. Laukaitis describes the two telecommunications networks that UNC Charlotte is a member of and how they contribute to distance learning programming. The first went online in 1985, and later expanded to 18 universities in the UNC system. The other program is the NC Information Highway. It has 70 educational sites in NC, including high schools and community colleges. These programs allow UNC Charlotte to provide courses to people throughout the state who don't have access to the physical campus. The interview ends at about 7:40, then the camera crew records video of employees in the studio and of distance learning programming, including a live class with distance learning technology in the classroom.

: UNC Show--Interviews (Beta) Brooke Sanders, part 1; Reporter Brooke Sanders records lines for a news story about UNC Charlotte. She records multiple takes of each line. She records in front of the Niner statue, the Barnhardt Student Activities Center, and the Belk Tower.

: UNC Show--Interviews (Beta) Brooke Sanders, part 2; Reporter Brooke Sanders records lines for a news story about UNC Charlotte. She records multiple takes of each line. Two students are also featured in the recording. Ms. Sanders asks them why they came to UNC Charlotte and about their classes.

: UNC Show--Interviews (Beta) Alumni 1--Ellison Clary; A brief interview with Ellison Clary, Senior Vice President at NationsBank. He records multiple variations of the same topics. Mr. Clary says that when he began attending Charlotte College in 1963, it was a smaller school with students from working class backgrounds like himself. He credits Bonnie Cone for founding the college and states that he owes his success to UNC Charlotte.

: UNC Show--Interviews (Beta) Alumni 2--Scott Boulware (Pt 2), Robert Rowell, Steve Argo, Jenny Lesley; Interviews with four alumni from UNC Charlotte who graduated between the 1970s-1990s. Three interviewees majored in business and one in political science. Topics include the majors, careers, and backgrounds of interviewees; participation in campus organizations; how UNC Charlotte was small to medium sized, but is now growing; what the interviewees appreciated about attending UNC Charlotte and their pride in the university.

: UNC Show--Interviews (Beta) Alumni 3--JoAnn Hasbrouck; Interviews with JoAnn Hasbrouck, a UNC Charlotte alumni who was employed as the interim director of alumni affairs at UNC Charlotte. Topics include a typical day in her job; her positive experience as a student; participating in organizations on campus; how the campus and programs are growing; and UNC Charlotte alumni.

: UNC Show--Interviews (Beta) Alumni 4--Donnie Koonce, Jeff Gruber, Dan Plondke, Scott Boulware (Pt 1); Interviews with four alumni from UNC Charlotte who graduated between the 1970s-1990s. Three out of the four interviewees played on UNC Charlotte's men's basketball team, and three out of four majored in business. Topics include the majors, careers, and backgrounds of interviewees; how their education and internships prepared the interviewees for careers; and professors.

: UNC Show--Interviews (Beta) Alumni 5--Marlo Mathis, Nancy Mathias, Sheldon Shipman, Jack Burke, Daryl Kerr, Carla Payne (Pt 1); Interviews with six alumni from UNC Charlotte who graduated between the 1970s-1990s. One interviewee played on the UNC Charlotte men's basketball team and another played tennis. The interviewees graduated with degrees in business, nursing, political science, religious studies, digital communication and design, and counseling. Topics include the careers of the interviewees, their typical days at work, and how their education prepared them for their careers.

: UNC Show--Interviews (Beta) Alumni 6--Carla Payne (Pt 2); Brief continuation of an interview with Carla Payne. She discusses feeling at home at UNC Charlotte and the alumni.

: UNC Show--Interviews (Beta) Craig Fulton--Director of Admissions; An interview with Craig Fulton, director of undergraduate admissions at UNC Charlotte. He discusses the growth of the campus and the growth of the Charlotte region, and how the growth is interrelated. He describes how UNC Charlotte is looking toward future growth when planning new academic programs and campus construction projects. Other topics include diversity of UNC Charlotte's students, the academic profile of a typical UNC Charlotte student, and the campus's impact on the surrounding community.

: UNC Show--Interviews (Beta) James Woodward--Chancellor; An interview with Jim Woodward, Chancellor of UNC Charlotte. He discusses the need for UNC Charlotte to build relationships with the North Carolina legislature and to listen to what their desires are for a state university. He talks about the Master Plan, which outlines campus development for the coming years, and how it relates to planning and growth in academic programs on campus. Other topics include the Southern Piedmont Legislative Caucus; plans for UNC Charlotte to become the state's next research university; the university's Board of Trustees; the quality of the university's undergraduate education programs, faculty, staff, and students; and the Charlotte community.

: UNC Show--Interviews (Beta) Melvin Watkins--Coach (#6); An interview with Melvin Watkins, head basketball coach at UNC Charlotte. He was a student at UNC Charlotte in the 1970s, and playing basketball as a student, then coming back to be head coach is very unique. He says that his education prepared him for his career, but a large part of preparation for his career came from the community and the people he interacted with during his college experience. He describes how he wants his players to be well rounded individuals, and is excited to see freshmen develop skills as they continue through college. Goals for the men's basketball team going forward are to join the list of top 20 teams in the country and continue to compete at the highest level.

: UNC Show--Interview (Beta) Ronald McNair Scholars Program; A recording featuring the Ronald McNair Scholars program at UNC Charlotte. It begins with an unidentified man and Dr. Sandra Govan providing background on the program at UNC Charlotte to an audience who are presumably students in the scholarship program. Then, the recording shows two students in the program giving presentations to an audience. One presentation is on Franz Kafka's The Trial and Jean-Jacques Rousseau's social contract theory. The second presentation is about womanism and Zora Neale Hurston.

: UNC Show--Interview (Beta) Basketball Camp--Melvin Watkins; Video recording of a basketball camp held in UNC Charlotte's Halton Arena for young men around middle school age. UNC Charlotte head men's basketball coach Melvin Watkins is running the camp and coaches the students on different techniques.

: UNC Show--Interview, Day Camp 1--Summer Camps (Cheerleading, Soccer, Kidnetics, International Business pt. 1); Video recording of camps for K-12 students held at UNC Charlotte. Beginning of recording - cheerleading camp. At about 5:05 - boy's soccer camp. 9:58 - cheerleading camp. 10:59 - elementary age P.E. class (Kidnetics) with parachute. 21:54 - International Business camp in a classroom (low sound) An instructor discusses basics of international business.

: UNC Show--Interview, Day Camp 2--Summer Camps (International Business pt. 2); Brief continuation of a video of an international business summer camp held at UNC Charlotte.

: UNC Show--Interview, B-Roll--Classes (Political Science, Computer Lab pt. 1); Video recordings of parts of three classes held at UNC Charlotte. Class one is about juvenile delinquency and features a police officer guest speaker, who talks about criminal justice, racial disparity in incarceration, and the effects of lack of resources on criminal justice. Class two starts at 15:05. It is a political science class where the professor asks students about current international news and engages them in discussion. Class three begins at 24:10, and is a computer science lab about circuitry.

: UNC Show--Interview, B-Roll--Classes (Computer Lab pt. 2, Dance); Video begins about 9 seconds into recording., Video recordings of parts of two classes held at UNC Charlotte. The first class is a continuation from another recording of a computer lab about circuitry. The second class begins at 2:26, and is a dance class.

: UNC Show--Miscellaneous Tapes--UNC Charlotte Student Video pt. 1; The first couple of minutes of recording are sometimes paused and rewound., Video recordings of two UNC Charlotte students showing a day in their lives. Some editing and rewinding is at the beginning of the recording. (2:21) The first student is driving to campus and narrating the experience. (10:45) Parks the car in the East Deck, walks to a class in Colvard. Mostly records while walking in the hall and checking his email on a computer, but shows brief recordings from inside of classrooms. (15:30) A different student records video in another building on campus. She describes her class with Dr. Crane and records some video inside of the classroom. (18:42) She walks to track practice, records inside of the weight room and briefly interviews the captain. (22:33) Around 6 pm, she walks to a meeting and shows some of the meeting. (25:18) The student returns to her apartment, records a roommate and her bedroom.

: UNC Show--Miscellaneous Tapes--UNC Charlotte Student Video pt. 2; Recording begins with a few seconds of a truck commercial., Video recording of a UNC Charlotte student showing a day in her life. The recording continues from Student Video pt. 1, and the first few minutes of video was also on the first video. New recording content begins with the student in bed, doing homework and talking about classes. (4:30) She wakes up to go to work on campus (5:05) Recording outside on campus at a free givaeaway. (5:45) The student sits on steps outside and concludes hte day in her life.

: UNC Show--Miscellaneous Tapes--Brooke Sanders Audio; Video recording that contains only audio., Audio only recording of Brooke Sanders reading statements about UNC Charlotte for a video about the university. The first recording seems to be a first read-through and includes mistakes. Topics include UNC Charlotte as “Carolina’s Next Great University,” Dr. Trauth and Chancellor Woodward, the campus is growing, distant learning, the Urban Institute, and UNC Charlotte becoming a research institution. (4:10) Brooke Sanders reads two more statements on UNC Charlotte, an introduction to the university and a statement about summer camps.

: UNC Show--Miscellaneous Tapes--UNC Charlotte--Generic B-Roll Campus; Mostly video only., B-roll recording of scenes on UNC Charlotte's campus to be used in a video about the university. At the beginning, the camera is right behind the miner statue near the main entrance to campus, recording pedestrians. (1:43) Near the Colvard building, students walking, reading. (3:38) Miner statue. (6:29) In front of and near Belk Tower and Kennedy Building. Some pedestrians. (7:49) Students sitting on a rock talking. No audio. (8:33) Fretwell building. (10:00) Pedestrians on brick sidewalk. Students reading. (11:43) A building, then students in pairs talking. A group of students talking. (14:40) Students walking to various locations. (18:55) Inside of the Barnhardt Student Activitiy Center food court. Customers eating and ordering food.

: UNC Show--Miscellaneous Tapes--UNC Charlotte--Lab Stuff #1; Mostly video only., Video recordings of people using equipment at various science labs at UNC Charlotte. Disciplines may include physics, chemistry, engineering, biology, biomedical science, and computer science.

: UNC Show--Miscellaneous Tapes--UNC Charlotte--Lab Stuff #2; Video only, no audio., Continuation of recording from the Lab Stuff #1 videotape. Video recording of a man using equipment at a science lab at UNC Charlotte.

: UNC Show--Miscellaneous Tapes--UNC Charlotte--Bonnie Cone celebration and car accident; Two separate recordings. Recording begins with Bonnie Cone being honored at an event. Short clips from the event. A former student who attended Charlotte College or UNC Charlotte and who had experiences with Bonnie Cone speaks about his experiences. Jim Woodward briefly introduces Boyd Davis, who speaks about her experiences. (5:10) The second recording is of a car accident. Police, EMS, a fire truck, and the crashed car are shown.