The International Student & Scholar Office (ISSO) will host a webinar on July 13 to provide a preview of topics concerning international students this fall.
Topics include:
Register via Zoom to receive a confirmation email with more details.
The first-ever Duke’s Mayo Classic College & Career Fair will invite prospective students from across the region to the Charlotte Convention Center from 10:30-4:30 Sept. 2.
The Fair will provide students the opportunity to learn more about the importance of furthering their education and to explore and discover the exciting programs and experiences colleges and universities have to offer.
The Career Fair will be followed by the Duke’s Mayo Classic – Aggie Eagle Classic on Sept. 3 where North Carolina A&T State University and North Carolina Central University at Bank of America Stadium will vie for the title.
Vendor registration is open through July 22 and is available through the Career Fair event site. Visit http://dukesmayoclassic.com for general information about the Classic.
The Graduate School and Graduate Admissions have a new, temporary location to serve the UNC Charlotte community and prospective students near the center of campus in the Cone University Center, Room 268.
Read more at the Graduate School.
Graduate students David Brown, Bioinformatics, and Kaitlin Klotz, Biology, demonstrated the value of graduate education for state legislators as part of the N.C. Council of Graduate Schools 11th Annual Graduate Education Day May 24 in Raleigh.
Read more from the Graduate School.
Graduate Program Directors may now elect to waive standardized test scores for individual applicants. Please see the Slate User Guide, located on the homepage in Slate Reader, for details on how to do this.
The Spring 2022 Commencement May 13 at the Jerry Richardson Football Stadium included 1,096 doctoral, master’s and certificate students. That number includes the most Ph.D. degrees in a single term (61) since 2018, and at 178, the most doctoral degrees conferred yet in an academic year.
Read more from the Graduate School.
For more information and to register, please visit GradSchoolMatch.
Please check your program pages to confirm that the old application portal link (https://mygradschool.uncc.edu) has been updated to the new URL (https://gradadmissions.charlotte.edu/apply).
Eventually, redirects to the new URL will expire.
We’re eager to meet the grad students who are beginning this summer! The Center for Graduate Life and Learning’s New Graduate Student Virtual Orientation will be May 19 from 4-5 pm. The following Wednesday (May 25) from 3-4:30 will be an ice cream social for new students at Hauser Alumni Pavilion. Please visit the CGLL for more information and to register.
Also, save the date for Fall New Grad Student Virtual Orientation August 18 from 4-5 pm. Students will have a chance to meet Dean Tom Reynolds and chat in their questions about grad school.
Amanda Sargent, Ph.D., Organizational Science, and Andréa Kaniuka, Ph.D., Public Health Sciences, received respective top Teaching Assistant and Instructor of Record awards at a ceremony held last week.
Read more at the Graduate School.
Please submit all outstanding grades as soon as possible for doctoral students who are graduating in spring 2022. We will make every effort to award degrees to these students prior to commencement so that they may pick up their diplomas after the ceremony.
If you have any questions, please contact Janet Morse.
Check the chart and submit a Slate Help ticket if your program requires a standardized admission test for 2023.
The International Student and Scholar Office (ISSO) recently informed faculty that, in an unexpected move, the U.S. government extended COVID-19 visa allowances made in March 2020 for the fall 2022 – spring 2023 academic year.
The impacts on the upcoming semesters, according to the ISSO include:
A copy of the US ICE guidance is available for download.
Students with questions may make an appointment to speak with an ISSO advisor or visit the ISSO website for more ways to connect.
Applications are being accepted for the 2022-2023 Graduate School Teaching Fellowship, a two-semester training opportunity for doctoral students pursuing careers that include college-level teaching.
Some of the benefits of this program include:
For more information and to apply, doctoral students are encouraged to visit the Center for Graduate Life and Learning (CGLL).
Applications are due by 5 p.m., April 22. Please direct questions to Dr. Judith Krauss at the CGLL.
On April 15, the 2023 admissions cycle will open in Slate. Prospects will be able to apply for 2023 spring, summer and fall.
For more information, please contact Kathy Giddings.
The Graduate School Slate team has implemented an integration with ETS to allow program faculty/staff to view additional details for GRE and TOEFL reports. When scores are available in Slate, a new tab will appear in the Reader. The additional information provided will enable readers to listen to a student’s speaking samples and read writing samples from the TOEFL score report, as well as read essays from the GRE score report. Note that samples are only provided from the most recent version of the score report for an applicant.
More information and training opportunities on Slate is available in GPDNet News & Resources.
UNC Charlotte is hosting the spring 2022 Digital Humanities Institute (DHC-NC) Apr. 21-22.
The two-day event will include virtual presentations such as “Digital Exploration of Spatial Environments: Physical, Conceptual, Virtual” and “Using Historical Satellite Imagery in Latin American Environmental History.” The event will end with a virtual plenary session and in-person meetups throughout North Carolina.
Registration is free and required to participate in the institute. For more information and to register, please visit the DHC-NC registration site. You may also download a detailed schedule and program.
The Graduate School will no longer put registration holds on new early entry admits. This change in procedure will allow early entry students to register for their course(s) and then submit the early entry petition with the appropriate section to identify courses that should double count. Note that it is strongly recommended that students complete the petition prior to the end of the add/drop period for the term as this can impact their financial aid.
Wingate University will host a virtual career fair Mar. 31 2:30-5 p.m., hosted on Handshake.
Wingate University is a growing university offering majors in:
For more information and to register, please visit Wingate University.
Dr. Kristin J. Davin, Foreign Language Education, recently was selected to receive the 2022 Thomas L. Reynolds Leadership Award for excellence in graduate program administration.
Read more at the Graduate School.
