Welcome to The Center for ADVANCing Faculty Success!

UPCOMING EVENTS

Peer Mentoring Circles for First and Second Year Faculty

Join us at the Center for ADVANCing Faculty Success (CAFS) interactive, facilitated Peer Mentoring Circle Sessions. These sessions, which are open to faculty of all appointments, provide information related to topics of interest to newer faculty at UNC Charlotte. Dr. Lisa Merriweather, Professor of Adult Education and the CAFS Faculty Fellow, is leading this initiative. This is an excellent opportunity to reflect on your first/second year at UNC Charlotte and share some of your thoughts/reflections with your peers. Engaging in spaces such as these help you continue to build support networks with other new faculty and faculty at different ranks at UNC Charlotte.

You have two opportunities to participate – you only need to sign up for one of the sessions.

  • April 20, 11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Cone Center 113 (Register) 
  • April 21, 11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Cone Center 113 (Register) 

Preparing for Reappointment

Every year, the Center for ADVANCing Faculty Success (CAFS) hosts a Workshop for tenure-track Faculty who will soon be going up for Reappointment, or who are interested in learning about the Reappointment process.

The Workshop, which will be virtual, is scheduled for Wednesday, April 15th from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.

The agenda for the workshop will be as follows:

  • Tehia Glass, Interim Director of CAFS will give a short overview of the Reappointment Process.
  • A panel of recently-reappointed faculty will talk about how they approached the process and will share useful strategies and/or tips they developed as they navigated the process.
  • A question and answer session with the panelists will follow

Please register here

Presenting to Decision Makers, Facilitated by Melissa Marshall

Presenting to Decision Makers is a practical workshop designed to help faculty, researchers, and academic leaders communicate complex ideas clearly and persuasively to university leadership and other stakeholders

  • April 29: 9:00 – 11:00 a.m. or 1:00p.m. – 3:00 p.m. 112 Foundation Building (Register for a.m. or p.m Session. The p.m. Session is a repeat of the a.m. Session)

Charlotte Faculty Connect: Come connect, build community, no agenda required

Charlotte Faculty Connect is spearheaded by the inaugural Center for ADVANCing Faculty Success’ Faculty Fellow for Fun, Dr. Michelle Pass. This initiative focuses on creating spaces for connection, conversation, and shared joy for all faculty across departments and career stages. Whether you’re looking to meet new colleagues or simply take a break with community in mind, these opportunities are designed for you. It’s about making space for community, conversation, and fun along the way.

For All Faculty and Administrators

Semester Wrap up Social at the Botanical Gardens

  • April 30, 2:00pm – 4:00 pm, UNC Charlotte Botanical Gardens (Register)

NCFDD

UNC Charlotte is an Institutional member of NCFDD. The NCFDD is a nationally-recognized, independent organization that provides online career development and mentoring resources for faculty, post-docs, and graduate students. Faculty have access through the University’s institutional membership to items such as the NCFDD’s Weekly Monday Motivator, monthly core curriculum webinars, monthly guest expert webinars, access to multi-week courses, access to dissertation success curriculum for graduate students, a private discussion forum for peer-mentoring, problem-solving, and moderated writing challenges, monthly accountability buddy matches, access to 14-Day writing challenges, and access to the Member Library that includes past webinar materials, referrals, and readings.

To claim access to the institutional membership, you will need to activate your personal membership account. Visit the NCFDD membership page and select UNC Charlotte from the list of member institutions (note we are under UNC Asheville and Tulane not with other schools in the system). If you have any technical questions, contact NCFDD or UNC Charlotte Center for ADVANCing Faculty Success.

Contact Us

University of North Carolina -Charlotte

9201 University City Blvd.
Colvard South Suite 3042
Charlotte, NC 28223

704-687-5112
advanceuncc@uncc.edu

@UNCC_ADVANCE

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