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. 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.

FALL 2026 SEMESTER PROGRAMMING

Best Practices in Holistic Faculty Recruitment

Register for any of the Trainings listed below

Best Practices in Holistic Faculty Review for Annual Review and RPT

Register for any of the Trainings listed below

• 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.

Peer Mentoring Circles: Build Support Networks with other New Faculty

Lisa Merriweather, Professor in Department of Educational Leadership, will lead facilitated discussions around topics of interest to new faculty. Choose which Session works with your busy schedules!

• Monday, September 14th 11:00- 12:15 a.m. Location TBD
• Tuesday, September 15th 11:00 – 12:15 a.m. Location TBD

Register here for either Session

Charlotte Faculty Connect: Power Hour – Community, Connection, Collaborative Learning and Care

The Two Most Powerful Medicines You Don’t Need a Prescription For. Food and Exercise as Medicine

This workshop focuses on the role that physical activity and nutrition play in influencing energy, stress, sleep, cognitive performance, and long-term health. The goal is to emphasize small, evidence-based changes rather than aiming for perfection. Your takeaway will be a personalized plan you can use immediately!

September 25th 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. Popp Martin Student Union Room 200

Register here

Power Hour is a 60-minute monthly gathering created to help all faculty feel more connected and supported. Come for the light refreshments and social time; stay for the focused discussion led by your peers on topics that matter to you. It’s more than just a session—it’s an opportunity to build the community of care we all deserve. See you there! 

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