On Feb. 1, Charlé LaMonica of Charlotte will become the next director of World View at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The program, created in 1998, offers professional training in global issues to educators in North Carolina’s schools, community colleges and universities.
On Feb. 1, Charlé LaMonica of Charlotte will become the next director of World View at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The program, created in 1998, offers professional training in global issues to educators in North Carolina’s schools, community colleges and universities.
World View founder Robert Phay retired Nov. 30 after 15 years as director. In that time, World View worked with more than 20,000 North Carolina educators in a classroom setting and forged partnerships with more than 130 districts, schools and colleges from Cherokee County on the Tennessee border to Camden and New Hanover counties on the Atlantic coast.
Neil Bolick, World View’s associate director, will continue in his role as interim director until Feb. 1.
LaMonica comes to World View from Charlotte Country Day School, where she served as director of international studies and the school’s World View liaison. Previously, LaMonica taught English, history, language arts and social studies in middle and high schools for more than 10 years and at the community college and university level. Her involvement in international business and education has allowed her to collaborate with those working in China, the former Soviet Union and Kenya. While conducting community development, she designed and administered cross-cultural programs for the international community in Charlotte.
“Charlé LaMonica brings to World View a distinguished record as a classroom teacher and, most recently, as the director of international studies at one of the Southeast’s best internationally focused schools,” Phay said. “With a strong staff committed to World View’s service mission, she possesses the energy, commitment to hard work and ability to promote global learning in the classrooms of North Carolina’s schools and colleges that will make World View a national leader in global education.”
World View contact: Jasmin McCrory, (919) 962-9264, jmccrory@email.unc.edu