Faculty/Staff

Jackie Simpson, associate vice chancellor and director of housing and residence life, will retire from the University in May after 37 years of service.

A retirement reception will be held from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m., Friday, May 19, in SoVi at South Village Crossing. A brief program will start at 2 p.m.

Nataly Tapper with the Center for Biomedical Engineering and Science 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 225. For more information, contact Joy Finney, benefits counselor, at 704‑687‑0648.

Michelle Hypki, Student Accounts, 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 225. For more information, contact Joy Finney, benefits counselor, at 704‑687‑0648.

Cathy Ann Nichols with the Controller’s Office 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 225. For more information, contact Joy Finney, benefits counselor, at 704‑687‑0648.

The UNC Charlotte Board of Trustees has revised University Policy 314 Centers and Institutes to conform with UNC Policy Manual 400.5[R], Regulations for Planning, Establishing and Reviewing Centers and Institutes in the University of North Carolina. 

At the University of Jos, Africana Studies professor Honore Missihoun plans to teach and analyze texts from Francophone countries in Africa to better understand how the exploitation of women, land and natural resources resulted from patriarchal and male-dominated societies.

A “transition reception” in honor of Art (Dr. J) Jackson, vice chancellor for student affairs, will be held from 3 to 5 p.m., Tuesday, May 16, in the Barnhardt Student Activity Center Salons. He is transitioning from his position as vice chancellor to become a part-time faculty member in the Cato College of Education. He has been with the University for 10 years.

Light refreshments will be served. RVSPs requested.

UNC Charlotte welcomed the following new staff and faculty members during the April 18-19 New Employee Orientation session:

Atkins Library
Tracie Krumbine, university library technician

Broadcast Communications
Harrison Hieb, broadcast media specialist

Building Environmental Services
Christian Gamble, building environmental technician
Sumia Mayfield, building environmental technician
Paul Montgomery, building environmental technician
Stanley Smith, building environmental technician

Tanure Ojaide, Frank Porter Graham Professor of Africana Studies, had the work “At Home, Away from Home: A Memoir” published by Cissus World Press.

The work reflects on the plight of the former African colonial subject, now postcolonial citizen, caught in the torrents of displacement and emplacement by the forces of global empires. As a member of the global literati and a celebrated professor in North America who originally is from the Niger Delta (Nigeria), Ojaide embodies the complications, promises and contradictions of post-coloniality.

The Cone Deck 2 entrance (located closest to the Cone University Center) will be closed temporarily from 7 a.m., Friday, April 21, through Monday, May 22, to upgrade parking equipment.

Expect construction barricades and traffic re-routing in the interior of the deck. The Cone Deck 1 entrance (accessible from Parking Lot 7, on the Belk Gym side) will reopen.

Exercise caution when approaching construction zones.