University of North Carolina Asheville

WE ARE

UNC Asheville offers an education that is adaptive, affordable, and endlessly relevant as the only liberal arts and sciences campus in the University of North Carolina System. Our small class size, award-winning faculty, and nationally acclaimed undergraduate research program foster connections between curiosity and critical thinking, courage and challenge, imagination and impact, opportunity and responsibility.

Read To Succeed

WE ARE

Read to Succeed is on a mission to help close the race-based opportunity gap through community-powered literacy programming that engages children, families, and community partners. We believe literacy unlocks potential and opens the door to opportunity!

Children First / Communities In Schools

WE ARE

Children First/Communities In Schools addresses the challenges to academic achievement that children not born to privilege experience by empowering K-6 students and surrounding them with a community of support in school, after school, and in their homes and communities. We work to strengthen relationships with children and families by keeping students on track for academic success while using public policy to build a more family-friendly, affordable Buncombe County. 

Buncombe County Schools

OUR COMMITMENT

As a member of the United for Youth Network, we commit to:

Equity: Buncombe County Schools recognizes that different students need different resources to achieve the same goals as their peers. Educational equity is the belief and practice of ensuring that every student is treated in a fair and just manner. We will address equity in the following ways: