FOCUS
The Digital Academy recognizes the reality of the rapidly changing and expanding technological landscape. As a fundamental concern, the Digital Academy promotes, establishes, activates and focuses on acquiring digital knowledge,
disseminating digital knowledge and modeling professional digital practice.

CUTTING EDGE
The Digital Academy was the first UNC school to become a member of the prestigious
New Media Consortium, an international collaboration of universities and technology companies.

SCHOLARSHIP THROUGH CREATIVE PROJECTS
The Digital Academy benefits its partners through focusing
digital technologies and those who use them upon valuable causes and agendas
related to university education, research and service.
Through Creative Projects the Digital Academy brings together, under a single umbrella, those
persons linked by a common interest in the creative and scholarly uses of digital
technologies, regardless of their department, school, or college affiliation.

TEACHING, COLLABORATION, SUPPORT
The UNCP Digital Academy was founded originally as the Media Integration Project.
Now Media Integrations Studies is a campus-wide minor. Founding faculty and departments are:
John Antoine Labadie, Art Department; George Johnson, Mass Communications; and Larry Arnold, Music Department. Collaborators: Departments offering courses in the MIS minor are: English,Theater & Languages; Philosphy & Religion; and Sociology & Criminal Justice.
All are in the College of Arts & Sciences. Additional UNCP collaborators include the
Sampson-Livermore Library, University Computing and Information Services.
Supporters of the Digital Academy are the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs.

ACTIVITIES
The Digital Academy hosts various campus activities including:
Digital Soup and Sandwich which is an informal monthly presentation series;
The Digital Content Consortium which is the annual "Brick and Mortar" conference;
and the UNCP MAC Users Group and Listserv