By Mickey Dunaway, Ed.D. Associate Professor Emeritus University of North Carolina — Charlotte According to Forbes online, “In a new attempt to fight grade inflation, a Harvard faculty committee has recommended capping the… Read more Shame on You, Harvard University →
By Mickey Dunaway Reprinted with Permission by Currents Magazine | MAR 1, 2026| Cornelius, NC When I first thought about the subject of this column, it was 1:00 p.m. on February 4,… Read more Under My Skin →
Reprinted with Permission by Currents Magazine | JAN 2025 | Cornelius, NC The picture belowis from my junior year and the Semmes High School Camellia yearbook. I chose it because, as much as anything… Read more My Best Days are Ahead →
November 19, 2025 By Mickey Dunaway Since my spinal fusion surgery on November 3, 2020, my equilibrium has been shot to hell. I don’t recall that anyone told me that… Read more Equilibrium →
By Mickey Dunaway Reprinted with Permission by Currents Magazine | AUG 2025 | Cornelius, NC With the hardware in my body, sometimes, I feel like Steve Austin. You remember him—the Six Million Dollar Man— today… Read more Are You Getting Older or Getting Old →
… with a final lesson from Mother By Mickey Dunaway Reprinted with Permission by Currents Magazine | JULY 2025| Cornelius, NC I acknowledged my 78th birthday back in December, and I am… Read more The Final Frontier … →
A Teenage Story of Terror By Phillip Saunders, Montgomery, Alabama __________ NOTE FROM THE EDITOR of SOUTHERN EXPOSURES I have had the pleasure of knowing Phillip for quite a few… Read more DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTROM →
By Mickey Dunaway Reprinted with Permission by Currents Magazine May 2024| Cornelius, NC Before joining UNCC as a professor of educational leadership in 2005, I spent 30 years in three states in… Read more The Matriarch →