In response to the positive feedback on the 2011 conference “Charting your Path – Strategies for Success in Academe, UNC Charlotte and N.C A&T State University will jointly host a one-day conference highlighting Mid-Career Female Faculty Advancement on May 14^th 2012 on the campus of N.C. A&T State University in Greensboro.

To learn more, please see flier here.

To register, please click here.

For hotel suggestions in Greensboro click here

For Conference Agenda click here

For the Mid-Career Faculty Planning Tool click here

For a list of Presenters click here

UNC Charlotte ADVANCE seeks to create an institutional environment to support the recruitment, retention and academic success of women faculty, especially those in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) disciplines, and to increase the success of all faculty campus-wide.

The initiative does this through systemic efforts including policy work, faculty mentoring, leadership development, diversity recruitment strategies, competitive grants and a speakers series featuring prestigious women leaders in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math fields.

To support its work, UNC Charlotte received a five-year National Science Foundation ADVANCE grant, known as an Institutional Transformation Award. The first year of the grant began in fall 2006, and the Principal Investigator for the grant is Dr. Joan Lorden, UNC Charlotte Provost and Vice Chancellor, Academic Affairs. UNC Charlotte ADVANCE benefits from a larger ADVANCE cohort in which Institutional Transformation Awards recipients collaborate and share best practices related to this work.

UNC Charlotte ADVANCE has focused its programming around the five primary goals of Recruitment; Retention and Advancement; Climate; Institutional Transformation and Dissemination.  It has also established desired outcomes around these goals.