The Urban Education Collaborative

Bettie Ray Butler, PhD is a Professor of Urban Education and the Director of the M.Ed. in Urban Education program at UNC Charlotte. She also serves as the Associate Editor for the Journal of African American Women and Girls in Education (JAAWGE). Dr. Butler completed her Ph.D. at Texas A&M University in 2011. Her research explores […]

Gloria Campbell-Whatley is a Professor in the Department of Special Education and Child Development. She is a nationally recognized as a specialist, consultant, trainer, and keynote speaker. She has developed 14 modules/training manuals and written five applied research reports. She has also delivered and produced 51 keynote addresses, strands, workshops, and television presentations, as well […]

Heather Coffey is Professor of English Language Education in the Department of Middle, Secondary and K-12 Education and serves as the Director of the UNC Charlotte Writing Project and program director for the M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction. She completed her Ph.D. at UNC-Chapel Hill in 2009. Her research interests include ways to develop critical […]

Sejal Foxx is a Professor and Counseling Department Chair. She is also the Director of the Urban School Counseling Collaborative. She has experience as an elementary and high school counselor. She is co-author of School Counseling in the 21st Century, 6th ed. In 2015, she received the Counselor Educator of the Year Award from the North Carolina […]

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 […]

Spencer Salas is Professor of Education in the Department of Middle, Secondary, and K-12 Education at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte where he leads the Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction Urban Literacies/TESL sub-concentration. An award-winning District of Columbia Public School ESL teacher (1994-2001), he has been a Fulbright Fellow to Romania (1998), Guatemala […]

Tehia Starker Glass is the Interim Executive Director of the Center for ADVANCing Faculty Success and Professor of Elementary Education and Educational Psychology in the department of Reading and Elementary Education at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She is the first Black woman to earn tenure in the College of Education at UNC […]

Vanessa Tomczak Regina is the Administrative Specialist for the Urban Education Collaborative, where she performs all administrative tasks for the Collaborative.  Her areas of expertise include accounting, travel, events and correspondence.  Regina previously worked at Duke University for 11 years and is a Durham native.  She has an associate degree in Internet Technology, specializing in graphic […]