Chance Lewis

Chance W. Lewis is the Carol Grotnes Belk Distinguished Professor of Urban Education and former Provost Faculty Fellow for Diversity, Inclusion and Access at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Additionally, he is the Executive Director of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte’s Urban Education Collaborative which is publishing a new generation of research on improving urban schools.

Teaching Background

Dr. Lewis currently teaches graduate courses in the field of Urban Education at the UNC Charlotte. His experiences span the range of K-12 and higher education. From 2006-2011, Dr. Lewis served as the Houston Endowed Chair and Associate Professor of Urban Education at Texas A&M University.  In 2001-2006, he served as an assistant professor of teacher education at Colorado State University. During the 1994-1998, Dr. Lewis served as a Business Education teacher in East Baton Rouge Parish Schools (Baton Rouge, LA), where he earned Teacher of the Year honors in 1997.

Lewis has been awarded the Texas A&M University, Legacy of Excellence and Equity, Outstanding Research Award (2021), Spencer Foundation Outstanding Mentor Award Winner, (2020), Profound Gentlemen Impact on Education Award Winner (2019) and the Harshini de Silva Graduate Mentor Award (2015) at UNC Charlotte for outstanding graduate student mentoring.

Lewis’s special areas of interests are academic achievement of students of color in K-12 settings, recruitment and retention of Black male teachers and urban education. He has provided consultative services focused on school turnaround to over 100 school districts, universities, educational entities, and other organizations across the United States and Canada. Lewis has over 100 publications, including more than 70 refereed journal articles in the leading academic journals in the field of urban education, over $7 million in external research funding, and 30 books with author, co-author, or co-editor credits.

Education

Ph.D. – Colorado State University, 2001, Educational Leadership/Teacher Education
M.Ed. – Southern University, 1998, Master of Educational Administration/Supervision
B.S. – Southern University, 1994, Business Education

Area(s) of Interest and Research

Academic achievement for students of color in K-12 settings
Recruitment and retention of Black male teachers
Urban Education