Students interested in making a strong start on their career will want to register for Career Lab: Developing Career Core Competencies through the Center for Graduate Life. The course delivers strategies for developing and promoting a personal brand such as a strong application package.
The course meets Mondays, 4-5:45 p.m. in Cone 268. It is instructed by Dr. Suzanne Voigt, Asst. Dir, University Career Center.
Register for GRAD 6320/8320 at my.uncc.edu.
With the help of History master’s student Laura Burgess, Dean Tom Reynolds’ antique and vintage collection of microscopes are currently on display in the J. Murrey Atkins Library. Focusing on the 19th century English genre, these early microscopy pieces are set to the stories of early scientific discovery. Read more about Beyond the Scope and visit the exhibit on the main floor of the Library this summer.
The Center for Graduate Life is offering a host of professional development workshops for UNC Charlotte graduate students. Please share them with those on or near campus. RSVP’s are encouraged by clicking on the workshop title or by visiting the Center for Graduate Life website:
Building your LinkedIn Profile & Networking
Facilitated by the UNC Charlotte Career Center
Tuesday, June 11
2:45-3:45 pm
CGL Classroom, Cone 268
Iced coffee and snacks served.
Job Search Strategies—How to conduct a job search?
Facilitated by the UNC Charlotte Career Center
Wednesday, July 17
5:30-6:30 pm
CGL Classroom, Cone 268
Summer Social – Community building for grad students here over summer
Facilitated by the Center for Graduate Life
Thursday, July 18
3:30-5:30 pm
CGL lounge, classroom (Cone 268), and outdoor West Quad area
Summer Writing Retreat for students and greater Charlotte community
Facilitated by the Center for Graduate Life
July 26-28
Friday: 1:00-6:00 pm
Saturday: 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Sunday: 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Center City Campus
The Center for Graduate Life is pleased to announce the addition of Dr. Lisa Russell-Pinson as their first full-time faculty member. In her capacity as Assistant Teaching Professor, she’ll create and and teach academic writing courses which will be designed for the matriculating graduate student. In addition, she’ll continue to support writing programming aimed at the graduate-level such as writing retreats, dissertation bootcamps, academic workshops and resource development.
“Dr. Russell-Pinson has taught writing and provided writing support for several years in the CGL on a part-time basis,” says Dr. Jill Huerta, Director of the Center for Graduate Life. “We are delighted to have her expertise and look forward to her contribution as a full-time member of the CGL team.”
Russell-Pinson earned her Ph.D. and M.S. in Linguistics from Georgetown University and her B.A. cum laude in English from the University of South Carolina at Columbia. For more visit her profile page on the Center for Graduate Life website.
After attending a conference hosted by ECE, Educational Credential Evaluators Inc, our graduate application specialists created a new resource to help GPD’s review their applications from Indian, Chinese and Nigerian prospects. The India, China and Nigeria Academic Credential resource is meant to help the GPD understand the documents submitted in the applicant’s portal, and to aide them in determining those academic credentials. While the Graduate School remains as the primary approval point of official and non-official documents, giving the GPD a few key points helps them better understand mark sheets, transcripts and degrees from this particular international audience.
The summer 2019 Ventureprise Launch National Science Foundation I-Corps program provides UNC Charlotte faculty, staff and students with commercialization training and up to an initial $5000 in NSF funding.
The next stage is a six month $50,000 NSF I-Corps Teams grant. The cohort will run May 29-July 10 (break for the July 4 holiday). The goal of the program is to identify potential commercial uses and prepare for more substantial commercialization funding opportunities.
A complete schedule and application form can be found at Ventureprise Launch NSF I-Corp. To learn more, please contact Principle Investigator Devin Collins (7-8058).
Dr. Chuang Wang, Professor of Educational Research and 2018 recipient of the 2018 Harshini V. De Silva Graduate Mentor Award, was recently selected to receive the UNC Charlotte’s 2019 International Education Faculty Award.
More information on Dr. Wang’s latest award can be found in the Academic Affairs Weekly Digest.
Beginning May 16, courses for which students did not meet prerequisites will be dropped by the Registrar’s office. The course drop includes any summer or fall registrations.
A list of students identified as not having met prerequisites will be distributed to faculty May 15. The report will include a report filter to help identify affected students. An email notification of the drop will be distributed to affected students on May 16 and they will be encouraged to contact their advisor with questions.
Going forward, the advance notice will be eliminated; the courses will be dropped each term and a list of affected students will be distributed to faculty.
As a reminder to your students enrolled for fall, the bill due date is a week earlier than usual – August 7. The University continues to offer an optional 5-installment payment plan with a $55 setup fee and no down payment required. For additional information please have your student visit NinerCentral.
The Graduate School will be extending the deadline for Spring 2019 Graduation: Master’s Thesis Defense Deadline originally scheduled for today (May 1).The new deadline for a thesis defense is May 6th. This moves the thesis submission deadline to May 9th. The Graduate School’s website “Checklist” has been updated to reflect the new dates.
Please advise any of your master’s students who may be concerned.
The ETS webinar entitled Best Practices: Finding Ideal Students for Your Program is available now to download in PowerPoint format. The March webinar focused on recruitment best practices for identifying and engaging with ideal students whose qualifications and aspirations best match your program goals.
A copy of the presentation is available for download.
The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) is offering a workshop and teaching guide to address common questions in developing and delivering short or part-of-term courses beyond summer sessions.
CTL’s support focuses on strategies to transform 15-week courses to 10-week, 7-week or 5-week format. Some topics to be covered include why these courses are being offered, opportunities and challenges and how to plan and deliver them effectively.
To register, select a session: April 23, 2019, 12:30 – 1:30 PM or May 8, 2019, 12:30 – 1:30 PM.
The CTL also provides an online teaching guide. Please visit the Center for Teaching and Learning to view the guide.
Yuehan Shao, Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, and Katie Wilkers, MS, Kinesiology, were named Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistants (TA) for 2018-19.
More information on the awards can be found in Graduate School News.
Graduate students Krystal Turner, MA, Counseling, Rebecca Blanchard, MA, Counseling and Rachel Saunders, Ph.D., Counselor Education, were honored recently by the UNC Charlotte Mu Tau Beta chapter of international counseling honor society Chi Sigma Iota.
For more details, visit The Graduate School‘s web site.
UNC Charlotte Chancellor’s Professor Steven Rogelberg is the 2019 recipient of the First Citizens Bank Scholars Medal, UNC Charlotte’s most prestigious faculty award in recognition of excellence in research. He was honored formally at an awards ceremony Tuesday, April 2, at the Harris Alumni Center at Johnson Glen.
Read more on Inside UNC Charlotte.
The Embassy of the United States in France has established an online platform to support French and American educators in finding partner institutions.
The FAAX (Franco-American Academic Exchange) web platform supports student mobility and exchanges between the two countries. Through the FAAX platform, educators looking for transatlantic exchanges are now able to create a profile outlining the type of partnership they are seeking.
For more information, visit the Franco-American Academic Exchange.
The cut-off date for students seeking classification as an in-state resident for tuition purposes or state grant eligibility has been extended.
Previously set at 10 days from the start of term, the Residency Determination Service (RDS) extended the application cut-off date to 30 days for Fall 2019 and Spring 2020 semesters as part of a pilot to allow for adjustments to Census day reporting to the System Office. New determinations, or any changes to determinations, beyond the 30-day cut-off date would be effective the next enrolling term.
The 30-day window should be prorated for sessions shorter than 16 weeks.
Students receive ONE residency determination which can be shared with all schools to which the student applies.
More information on NC residency requirements is available from the Residency Determine Service (RDS).
The annual Graduate Research Symposium (GRS) Mar. 15 featured presentations from various areas of study within graduate certificate, master’s, and doctoral programs. Awards were presented to top candidates for oral and poster presentations.
Complete details can be found on the the Graduate and Professional Student Government‘s (GPSG) website.
