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September 16, 2015. | Issue 4, Volume 63 | thebluebanner.net
NEWS
TKe star of tfCHANSTALLATION
UNCA’s seventh chancellor settles in
PHILLIP WYATT
A&F Staff Writer
I pw^att@u nca.edu
ChancelTor Mary K.” (jrant
has lived in Asheville less than
a year, yet she already sounds
like a local.
Her love of hiking, bike rid
ing, gardening. Highland Brew
ing and The Hop’s dark choco
late ice cream depicts Grant as a
quintessential Ashevillian.
“I really like the size of scale
of Asheville- not too big, not
too small,” Grant said. “You can
wander around in the River Arts
District and find a whole differ
ent vibe, a whole different set of
places to explore- restaurants,
coffee shops and galleries .You
can go down to West Asheville,
where there is just a great music
scene. It’s surrounded by all of
this natural beauty. There seems
to be something for everybody
here in bur own backyard.”
Bom in Boston, the
diehard Red Sox fan is no
stranger to the liberal arts cur
riculum. Grant received her
bachelor’s degree in sociology
from Massachusetts College of
Liberal Arts in 1983, accord
ing to information from a UNC
Asheville press release.
Grant ‘said she took a year
and a half off before earning a
master’s degree in public affairs
from the University of Massa
chusetts, Boston, in 1986, us
ing her time between degrees to
reflect and determine her next
move in academics.
The chancellor started- her
career in higher education as
a research assistant at UMass
Boston, also teaching gradu
ate-level courses in the univer
sity’s public policy program.
She also spent years as assistant
vice chancellor for administra
tion and finance and chair of the
college’s faculty.
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Chancellor Grant and SGA President Maya Newlin enjoy free
Hop ice cream.
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