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The due dates for all Faculty Awards for this academic year are listed below so that you can plan to nominate and honor your colleagues. Please note the first five award nominations are due this semester. Award Campus Due Date Responsible Office Fall Semester Nominations Due O. Max Gardner Award 10/9/2015 Faculty Council Provost’s Faculty […]

The 2015 COACHE Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey Provost’s Report, which summarizes the results from the latest COACHE survey that was administered to all full time faculty at UNC Charlotte is available for download here.

UNC Charlotte ADVANCE Faculty Affairs and Diversity Office, in collaboration with the NC State Office for Institutional Equity and Diversity, Office of Faculty Affairs, and the College of Education hosted the 2014 “CHARTING YOUR PATH WORKSHOP Strategies for Success for Mid-Career Faculty with particular emphasis on approaches for Women and Under-Represented Minority Faculty” at NC […]

ADVANCE Faculty Affairs and Diversity Office sponsored a new summer program for high achieving under-represented minority students from institutions outside UNC Charlotte. A total of 8 under-represented minority students participated in the program. The goal is provide students with the opportunity to gain experience in research and professional development in their field of interest. In […]

It is our very great pleasure to announce that Dr. Heather Smith, Professor in the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences has been awarded the Provost’s Faculty Award for Excellence in Community Engagement for the 2013 – 2014 Academic Year. The Provost’s Faculty Award for Community Engagement honors a tenured faculty member whose teaching, research, […]

On October 16, 2014, the Office of Legal Affairs held its Fall Symposium on Legal Issues in Higher Education, addressing a number of legal topics relevant to faculty, staff, and administrators. Click here to access the agenda and copies of the presentations that were made during the symposium.

The results of the 2013 Climate Survey are now available. To all of you who took the survey – thank you. An institution is only as strong as its faculty, and a happy faculty is a productive faculty. Results from the climate survey are used to assess the satisfaction of the university community with all […]

How much time are scholars expected to commit to their research project? Scholars are expected to work full-time for the entire nine weeks. They will spend approximately 3-4 hours each week away from the project in order to participate in professional development activities. How will the scholars be selected? The ADVANCE Faculty Affairs and Diversity […]

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An interesting article that offers suggestions around strategies to reduce the gender gap in STEM fields. The author argues that to lessen this gender gap, “it is necessary to transform the institution, not ” fix ” the women.” This is the fundamental principle behind the NSF ADVANCE IT (Institutional Transformation) awards. UNC Charlotte was awarded […]