September 22

Unsatisfactory Grading is open. Grades are due by October 3, 2025 at 12:00 p.m. Please refer to Unsatisfactory Grading At Midterm Instructions.

The Office of International Programs (OIP) invites students, faculty and staff to celebrate International Education Week (IEW) from November 17-21. This weeklong celebration of the impact of internationalization includes events that will showcase food, music, dance, language and film from around the world. We want to highlight these events through our calendar and in printed publications. Faculty and staff can request funds to help facilitate these events. To submit your event(s) and request funds go to our website before Friday, October 17. https://global.charlotte.edu/event-submission-forms/

Best Practices in Holistic Faculty Recruitment Training Added in October
The Center for ADVANCing Faculty Success (CAFS) and their collaborators who facilitate Best Practices in Holistic Faculty Recruitment will be offering the Face-to-Face Best Practices in Holistic Faculty Recruitment Training on Tuesday, October 28th from 11:00 – 12:50 p.m. If you know your department will be convening a search committee this academic year, or if you have already been selected to sit on a search committee, please make sure you have taken this training within the past 5 years. This training is required before a faculty member is permitted to sit on a search committee. Sign up here – just scroll down in the box, “I plan to attend on* to sign up for the October date.

Faculty recruitment training is a two-part training, and each part must be completed prior to serving on the committee.

Please go to our website to see the criteria, and to sign up for the face-to-face training.

Peer Mentoring Circles
Join the Center for ADVANCing Faculty Success as they launch their new Mentoring Initiative: Peer Mentoring Circles. These facilitated, interactive mentoring sessions, which are open to new and second year faculty of all appointments, will provide information related to topics of interest to newer faculty at UNC Charlotte. In addition, they will provide opportunities to help you engage with one another and build support networks with other new faculty and faculty at different ranks at UNC Charlotte.

To participate in the Peer Mentoring Circles, please register here.
Choose one of the Meeting Dates from each month:
Monday, October 13, 11:00am – 12:15pm
Tuesday, October 14, 11:00am – 12:15pm

Monday, December 1, 11:00am – 12:15pm
Tuesday, December 2, 11:00 – 12:15pm

Please visit the Faculty Governance website for the latest news from the Faculty Council including: 

The dissertation defense is one of the ways a new scholar demonstrates readiness to join the academy and is an opportunity to share their research widely. View All Dissertation Defense Announcements.

For up-to-the-minute news from Academic Affairs (faculty awards, research, recognition, initiatives), visit the Academic Affairs Division News webpage.

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Deadline for submission is 11:00 a.m. every Friday.