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Alumni Newsletter Spring 2026
KC Corner —
I am the youngest of four children, and my siblings and I are the first people on both sides of our family to complete undergraduate degrees. Interestingly, all four of us became teachers as a way, perhaps, to give back to others in the same way as those who saw something special in us; people who were placed in our paths and changed our lives. As the baby of the family, I knew that much of the financial responsibility of college would fall to me and, fortunately, I was granted a full-ride to college with the help of a North Carolina Teaching Fellow scholarship, an opportunity for four free years of college in return for my teaching at least four years in my home state. Read More...
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2023 Horizon Award: Ewa Plonka
Every year the College of Fine Arts recognizes alumni during its CFA Gala
Past Awardees:
2022 Arts Educator Award: Larry R. Smith
2021 Horizon Award: Tyler Nelson
2018 Arts Educator Award: Neil Hendriksen
Sergio Pallottelli, Fall 2017
Adelaide Sinclair, Fall 2016
Gregory Brown, Fall 2015
Barbara Scowcroft, Fall 2014
Brian Hulse, Fall 2013
Raymond Chobaz, Fall 2012
Christoph Luty, Fall 2011
Celena Shafer, Spring 2011
Heath Wolf, Spring 2010
Stanford Olsen, Spring 2009