Faculty/Staff

Paving repairs along Phillips Road are scheduled for Monday, Jan. 15, starting at 11 a.m. Expect traffic delays and heavy construction equipment and workers in the area.

The Niner Transit Silver Line will not make stops on the CRI portion of campus between noon and 5 p.m.; buses will stop at the gate 1 loop at Richardson Stadium.

Between 11 a.m. and 12:30 p.m., Phillips Road will be one lane with flaggers on each side to direct traffic. Afterward, until 4 p.m., there will be a detour through Parking Lot 23.

On Monday, Jan. 15 (weather permitting), a temporary closure will affect the eastbound lane of Cameron Boulevard in front of Wallis Hall. Workers will be patching asphalt.

Flaggers will maintain two-way traffic using a single lane between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. Exercise caution when approaching construction zones.

Janice Jordan with Niner Central needs shared leave donations.

To contribute leave, faculty and staff should refer to the requirements and participant forms in Personnel Information Memorandum (PIM) 29 or in the literature racks outside of the Benefits Office, King Building, Room 207. For more information, contact Joy Finney, benefits counselor, at 704‑687‑0648.

This past fall, Karen Cox, professor of history, was interviewed for the story “How Southern socialites rewrote Civil War history,” published on the Vox website.

As part of the story, Cox was featured in a roughly seven-minute video that outlined how the United Daughters of the Confederacy altered the South’s memory of the Civil War. Since the video was posted to the Vox YouTube site in October 2017, it has recorded 1,004,685 views and counting.

The Graduate Student Funding Task Force recently completed a series of campus forums to solicit information on graduate student support. 

The task force also needs help to shape the future of graduate funding. Students, faculty or staff are encouraged to submit their ideas, issues, challenges, suggestions and possible solutions via email to fundingtaskforce@uncc.edu by Thursday, Feb. 1.

Ventureprise Inc. is now accepting applications from UNC Charlotte teams for the spring 2018 I-Corps cohort. The program, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), helps participants bridge academic and entrepreneurial knowledge.

Kathryn Horne, previously the director of university space management and utilization, has been appointed director of facilities planning. She joined UNC Charlotte’s Facilities Management Department in 2015.

In her new role, Horne will guide the development of the campus in accordance with UNC Charlotte’s current Master Plan. She will be responsible for developing and implementing comprehensive capital construction plans in collaboration with other divisions of the University. 

It is the responsibility of all students, faculty, and staff to conduct themselves in a way that contributes to an environment free of illegal drug use and abuse of alcohol.

Illegal or abusive use of drugs or alcohol by members of the University community adversely affects the educational environment and interferes with achievement of personal, social and educational goals.

The Human Resources Department is accepting nominations for the 2018 Staff Employee of the Year awards. This program honors UNC Charlotte staff members who have contributed exemplary service beyond the normal parameters of their job. Any permanent employee of UNC Charlotte can submit a nomination and are encouraged to do so.

Individuals can be nominated in any one of five categories:

Ted Elling, associate vice chancellor for student affairs for research and systems development, received the 2017 Champion Award from Campus Labs for “utilizing data to influence a change in student success initiatives across the institution and inspiring a generation of assessment professionals.”