Welcome to The Center for ADVANCing Faculty Success!

The UNC Charlotte Center for ADVANCing Faculty Success (CAFS) provides strategies and opportunities to enable all faculty to be successful during every phase of their academic careers.

For the full inventory of programming offered by CAFS, go to the “Programs and Resources” tab at the top of the page.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Thanks to all of you who participated in CAFS Programming during the 2025 – 6 Academic Year. We hope you found it to be valuable.

Please look out for notices from CAFS about opportunities to come together and write during the Summer Break. 

We look forward to resuming professional development and wellness programming in Fall 2026. With this in mind, please let us know what programming you would like to see offered by CAFS in 2026-7.

Please fill out this anonymous form with your ideas around faculty professional development and wellness programming.

Have a great summer break!

FALL 2026 SEMESTER PROGRAMMING

Register for any of the Trainings

Best Practices in Holistic Faculty Recruitment

Best Practices in Holistic Faculty Review for Annual Review and RPT

Register for any of the Trainings

• Wednesday, September 2nd: 10:00 – 12:00 p.m.
• Thursday, September 10th: 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.
• Monday, September 21st: 9:00 – 11:00 a.m.

Mentoring Opportunities for New Faculty

We strongly encourage new faculty to sign up for the Center for ADVANCing Faculty Success (CAFS)  Mentoring Programs. Stepping into a new faculty role is often described as trying to drink from a fire hose—you’re simultaneously juggling curriculum design, institutional politics, publication pressures, and navigating the unspoken cultural norms of a new campus. An effective mentor acts as a cultural translator and a strategic guide as you navigate your first few years at a new institution.

CAFS Individual Mentoring Initiative – a One-on- One Mentoring Model

In this One-on-One Mentoring Model, new faculty are intentionally matched with a mentor outside of their home departments to forge connections across UNC Charlotte, and to allow new faculty to gain different perspectives. Sign up here

CAFS New Faculty Mentoring Circles – a Network Mentoring Model

CAFS New Faculty Mentoring Circles, which we offer in addition to, not instead of the Individual Mentoring Program described above, provide opportunities for new faculty to build support networks with other new faculty at UNC Charlotte. Faculty meet twice a semester to participate in facilitated discussions around topics of interest.
The programming kicks off with a Workshop: How to be an Effective Mentee facilitated by Lisa Merriweather, Professor of Adult Education. She will facilitate discussions and provide strategies focused on how to make the most of your mentoring relationships on Wednesday, August 12th from 10:00 – 11:15 a.m. Location TBD. Sign up here

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 at Charlotte

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

704-687-5112
faculty-success@charlotte.edu

@UNCC_ADVANCE