Now that all of our spring recruiting events have been cancelled, the Office of Admissions is looking for faculty members who are willing to be ambassadors for their college/programs. If you are willing and eager to communicate with newly admitted students please sign up here: Faculty Contact Form. The Office of Admissions will send you recruitment tips, FAQs, and sample communication to faculty who sign up.
Wanted - Faculty Ambassadors
Your Students Need Help With Technology?
Students can check out laptops, calculators, cables, chargers, and other equipment from the Circulation Desk inAtkins Library today, Friday from 7:30 a.m. – 7 p.m. Items checked-out will have an initial due date of May 7, 2020.
CTL Support for Emergency Remote Teaching
The CTL continues to add multiple daily workshops to our calendar to support faculty who are moving to remote instruction. Workshops are still available. See the full document here.
These workshops will focus on using WebEx to deliver synchronous instruction and using Canvas for asynchronous instruction and communication with students. The workshops are 30-minutes in length and delivered via WebEx. See the CTL calendar for a schedule and to register. Additional resources for faculty can be found on the CTL Keep Teaching page.
Space in these webinars will be prioritized for course instructors (i.e., not staff), who may need to plan to move their courses and teaching presence to online modes of delivery. (If you are staff, see the ITS Resources for Remote Work.)
Questions about how to register for a workshop? This FAQ can help.
Questions about how to cancel a workshop registration? This FAQ can help.
#KeepTeaching Workshops: Register at ctl.gosignmeup.com
Upcoming Events
The health and safety of students, faculty, staff and community friends remains UNC Charlotte and the College of LIberal Arts & Sciences’ top priority. The University has been monitoring the rapidly evolving situation around coronavirus (COVID-19) and has been working in close collaboration with local and state resources.
After careful thought and consideration, many of the departments and programs within the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences have decided to cancel the events previously announced for March and early April. This was not an easy decision, but a necessary one in protecting the health and well-being of our campus community.
If those events are rescheduled, they will be listed in future Dean’s Digests and on Campus Events.
Mar – May | As the situation rapidly evolves, the Botanical Gardens’ leadership is working thoughtfully with University administration to determine next steps with regard to events and gatherings at the Gardens. In-person events may be modified to an online format if necessary. WATCH WEBSITE FOR UPDATES. |
Liberal Education News Watch
Weekly Liberal Education News Watch
Week of February 3 – February 7, 2020
For most recent news, see: Liberal Education News
Witherspoon Lecture: “The Very Idea of Queer Religion”
Please join Dr. Mark Jordan, Neibuhr Professor at Harvard University Divinity School, as he talks about Queer Religion at the annual Loy H. Witherspoon Lecture sponsored by the Department of Religious Studies at UNC Charlotte. A scholar of Christian thought, European philosophy, and gender studies, he currently teaches courses on the relations of religion to literature and the prospects for sexual ethics. For more information and to register, visit https://religiousstudies.uncc.edu/news/witherspoon-mark-jordan.
2020 Levine Lecture: Class Distinction Among Slaves
Join us for the Center for the Study of the New South’s Annual Levine Lecture, this year featuring Dr. Bill Andrews of UNC Chapel Hill. Dr. Andrews will discuss his book, Slavery and Class in the American South: A Generation of Slave Narrative Testimony, 1840-1865 (2019; New York: Oxford University Press). The lecture will be held at the Levine Museum of the New South 200 E 7th St, Charlotte, NC 28202. The title of his lecture is “The Fighter and the Victim: Two Enslaved Women in the Life of Frederick Douglass.” For more information and to register, visit the Levine Lecture.
Public Policy Brown Bag Panels
Public Policy is hosting two brown bag panels this Spring. Panelists will briefly discuss their research (less than 5 minutes each) and then jointly brainstorm, in an inclusive conversation with PPOL Faculty and Students, emerging areas in the field and potential for cross-fertilization across disciplines. This is an informal conversation, and lunch will be provided. The panelists are listed below. PLEASE RESPOND to the calendar invite so that we may accurately calculate the amount of food needed.
Economic Development Panel (Wed, Feb 12 from 12-1 pm in Fretwell 290B)
- Yang Cao, Sociology
- Michael Ewers, Geography and Earth Sciences
- Ben Radford, Political Science and Public Administration
- Dale Smith, Global Studies
Education Panel (Wed, Feb 26, from 12-1 pm in Fretwell 290B )
- Martha Bottia, Sociology
- Michael Ewers, Geography and Earth Sciences
- Jason Giersch, Political Science and Public Administration
- Stephanie Potochnick, Sociology
- Spencer Salas, College of Education
- Greg Wiggan, College of Education
- Justin Lane, Urban Institute
CLAS Teaching Awards Nominations
Nominations are now being accepted for the following CLAS Teaching Awards:
Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Full-time Lecturer
Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Part-time Faculty Member
Award for the Integration of Undergraduate Teaching and Research
Click on the name of each award to receive details about the nomination criteria. Please contact your department chair or program director if you are interested in being nominated for this award. The deadline for nominations is Monday, February 10, 2020. If you have any other questions, please contact Banita Brown at bwbrown@uncc.edu.