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Students often describe Vaughn Schmutz as approachable and caring. Schmutz, who is a finalist in the 2021 Bank of America Award for Teaching Excellence competition, has honed these traits over years of teaching in an effort to create a collaborative classroom environment that empowers creative, critical sociological thinking among his students. Schmutz said, “My attentiveness […]
Reflective, engaging, and collaborative, these are the words that describe Erin Miller’s approach to teaching and scholarship. Miller is a finalist in the 2021 Bank of America Award for Teaching Excellence competition. She creates opportunities for students to reflect upon the knowledge they are obtaining, but she also learns from those she works with and […]
Dr. Anabel Aliaga-Buchenau is recognized as a master teacher in the Department of Languages and Culture Studies and beyond. She is a finalist in the 2021 Bank of America Award for Teaching Excellence competition. In describing Dr. Aliaga-Buchenau, Dr. Michèle Bissière, Department Chair stated, “She shines in the classroom and always receives near perfect evaluations […]
UNC Charlotte’s award-winning Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) has expanded its capabilities to support faculty who seek to keep pace with emerging technologies, teaching tools and learning practices. CTL now offers its most robust schedule to train new instructors and to provide seasoned faculty with the newest tools and methods for both in-person and […]
As we prepare for fall, I need to bring to your attention to adjustments to the class schedule that you will need to incorporate into your syllabus planning. Chancellor Installation As part of the schedule of events associated with the installation of Chancellor Gaber, classes will be canceled on Thursday, September 23, 2021, to allow […]
The new 2021-2022 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalogs are now available online. The newly published catalogs contain new or revised programs and courses that have reached final approval through Curriculog. Please note that the Undergraduate and Graduate Catalogs are each published online once per year. Curriculum proposals currently in progress and any new proposals will be […]
The University Career Center (UCC) won Best Faculty Program for its Career Competency Institute project at the 2021 EY Global Career Services Summit. UCC piloted the Career Competency Institute in May 2020 with five departments from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences to partner on the integration of career competencies into their academic courses […]
The Provost’s Office recently held a virtual award ceremony for the 2020 award recipients. The awards recognize faculty and academic units for exemplary work in the areas of teaching and community engagement. These areas remain vital to UNC Charlotte’s mission to educating and preparing students for chosen careers and to address community needs in the […]
Some faculty members refused to give up on providing their students with a global learning experience during the pandemic, so they partnered with the Office of International Programs to pilot a new initiative called Globally Networked Learning (GNL). GNL is a collaborative approach that enables students, instructors and researchers from locations around the world to […]
Join Karen L. Cox in conversation on her book No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice. The virtual talk will be held April 22, 2021, from 5:30-7 p.m. In this eye-opening narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove Confederate monuments, Karen L. Cox depicts what these statues […]
Dear Colleagues, In the past year, you have had to pivot often in response to changing conditions. Things are changing again, but the decreases in infection rates and the increasing availability of COVID vaccines mean that the latest change is to a more normal fall. Fall is likely to still entail testing, tracing, and mask […]
Due to the inclement weather schedule changes that were announced in today’s NinerNotice, please be aware that dates have moved forward by one day for those students moving into residence halls. We previously announced the need for student accommodations related to residence hall move-in, and now ask you to make any adjustments due to the […]