Center for ADVANCing Faculty Success
Best Practices in Holistic Faculty Recruitment Face-to-Face Workshops
The Center for ADVANCing Faculty Success (CAFS) and their collaborators who facilitate Best Practices in Holistic Faculty Recruitment will offer virtual Face-to-Face Sessions. If you know your department will convene 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 five years. This training is required before a faculty member is permitted to sit on a search committee. Faculty recruitment training is a two-part training, and each part must be completed prior to serving on the committee. Visit the CAFS website to see the criteria and to sign up for a session.
- Wednesday, February 11, 2:15 – 4:00 PM, Virtual (Register)
- Tuesday, March 3, 1:00 – 2:50 PM, Room TBD (Register)
Charlotte Faculty Connect Social Event: Gentle Yoga
Charlotte Faculty Connect focuses on creating social 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. Come connect, build community, no agenda required.
Gentle Yoga focuses on deep stretching and relaxation by easing you through a series of poses and flows that leave you feeling rejuvenated and refreshed! Wear something breathable and movable.
- Wednesday, February 11, 9:00 – 9:45 AM, UREC Room 503: The Mind Body Studio (Register)
Inaugural Power Hour
Your time is valuable and so is your well-being. 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. February Topic: Growing Connection: Simple Practices That Strengthen Our Campus Community with Megan Smith, Department of Sociology
- Friday, February 13, 10:00 – 11:00 AM, Student Union Room 200 (Register)
Chair Academy: Unpacking FMLA and Short Term Disability
With Maria Sanchez, Workers’ Compensation Manager
- Friday, February 20, 9:00 – 10:50 AM, Student Union Room 262 (Register)
Introduction to Strengths: Name It; Claim It; Aim It!
Facilitated by Daniel Almeida, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
In this workshop, faculty will learn to name their unique combination of strengths, claim and appreciate how those talents have fueled past successes, and aim those strengths toward future personal and professional goals.
The virtual workshop is spread over two afternoons and participants must commit to attending both sessions.
- Monday and Wednesday, March 16 and 18, 1:00 – 4:00 PM (Register)
Supporting Associate Professors: A Leadership Conversation
Facilitated by Dr. Amy Santos, Associate Provost for Faculty Development at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
This session brings academic leaders together for dialogue and shared learning about ways to support Associate Professors across the full range of time in rank. There will be opportunities to share resources, reflect on current practices, policies, and procedures that may shape faculty advancement, and discuss the leadership roles and strategies that support scholarly impact, promotion, and sustainable academic careers.
- Tuesday, March 17, 9:00 – 11:00 AM, Foundation Building Room 112 (Register)
Navigating the Mid-Career Years: Planning for Impact, Advancement, and Balance
Facilitated by Dr. Amy Santos, Associate Provost for Faculty Development at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Whether you are newly promoted to Associate Professor or bring longer experience in the rank, join us for thoughtful exchange and shared reflection on the mid-career years. In this session, we will exchange ideas, discuss short- and long-term planning, and explore ways to align scholarly impact, career advancement, and personal priorities in a supportive, collaborative setting.
- Tuesday, March 17, 1:00 – 3:00 PM, Foundation Building Room 112 (Register)
Faculty Forum for Associate Professors interested in learning about Promotion to Full
The Center for ADVANCing Faculty Success offers a Faculty Forum once a year in an effort to provide clarity to mid-career faculty regarding the criteria for promotion from Associate Professor to Full Professor. Dr. Jennifer Troyer, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, and the Deans or their appointees serve on a panel, in which panelists provide information on pathways to promotion. The format is interactive, so faculty have the opportunity to ask questions during the session. Members of Department Review Committees (DRC) and College Review Committees (CRC) are encouraged to attend to ensure that all involved in the review process have a common understanding of expectations and other issues.
- Thursday, March 26, 10:00 – 11:00 AM, Cone 111 (Register)
Recently-Tenured Associate Professor Orientation
The Center for ADVANCing Faculty Success invites associate professors who have received tenure in the past 2 years to attend our annual Recently-Tenured Associate Professor Orientation. The goal of this orientation is to clarify expectations around this next phase in your professional journey; to provide information about formulating a plan; and to introduce you to resources that will help you to be successful. The format will be an interactive panel discussion. The panel will consist of Deans from each College, or their representatives. It’s never too early to start planning for the next phase of your career!!
- Thursday, March 26, 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM, Cone 111 (Register)
For graduate students, postdocs, all faculty and administrators:
UNC Charlotte will partner with NCFDD to host a private 14-Day Writing Challenge. This open and free 14-day challenge, exclusive to UNC Charlotte, is designed to foster a vibrant community of scholarship by inspiring administrators, faculty members, graduate students, and postdocs at all career stages. This initiative provides faculty and scholars with a dedicated virtual space for goal setting, peer accountability, and writing productivity.March 6-20, 2026. Register.
