This Week in LANG 9/8/2025

September 8, 2025
Categories: Awards, Cultural Events, Film, General Events, General News Tags: 2025, german, spanish

In this Edition: **Early Alerts, Teaching Excellence Award Finalist in LANG, German Campus Week coming up next week**

Dear colleagues, 

I hope you had a wonderful weekend. I am very happy about all the good news and am confident that we will manage moving forward in spite of some difficult circumstances. 

This week is very exciting. Our own Susana Cisneros is a finalist for the Charlotte Teaching Excellence Award, please see more below. The winner will be announced this Thursday. 

Please remember to submit early alerts for 1000 and 2000 level courses by Friday at noon this week. 

Dates and Events this Week

Wednesday, September 10

  • French Major/Minor Declaration Party, 5:30-7:00pm, Mebane 419

Thursday, September 11

  • Charlotte’s 2025 Teaching Excellence Awards

Friday, September 12

Looking Ahead Dates and Events Fall 2025

September 15

  • Fulbright Applications due
  • Kick off for German Campus Week: “Black Germans – Afro-German Experience in Past and Present.”

September 18

  • Deadline to apply for December Graduation 

September 22

September 25

  • Title XI Training due

September 27

September 29

  • CIVIQ Applications due via this form
  • Bringing Informative Debate and Dialogue into the Classroom, 3:00-4:30, LRC
  • Proposals for Witness in Residence due via Submit a suggestion 

September 30

  • Register here CHESS Continuing Faculty Workshop invite:  Form 

October 1

October 3

October 7

  • CHESS Continuing Faculty (formerly known as Non Tenure Track) Workshop, 1:00-2:30pm, in person, register here for invite:  Form 

October 8

  • CHESS Continuing Faculty (formerly known as Non Tenure Track) Workshop, 2:00-3:30pm, in person, register here for invite:  Form

October 9-10

Student Recess, No Classes 

October 16

  • Last day to withdraw from course(s)

November 3

November 5

November 11

  • Veteran’s Day, no classes 

November 26-29

  • Thanksgiving Break

December 2

  • Last Day of Classes 

December 3

  • Reading Day

December 4-10

  • Exam Period

December 12-13

  • Commencement

December 15 

  • Final Grades due 

Congratulations

Congratulations to Susana Cisneros, who is a finalist for the Teaching Excellence Award. Please read about all six finalists Inside UNC Charlotte. The committee reports that Susana Cisneros is a fervent educator and community connector who sees teaching as a journey of growth between student and teacher.

Susana Cisneros

A former attorney from Argentina and a certified paralegal, she brings a global perspective and community-centered ethos to her Spanish language instruction at UNC Charlotte. “Teaching is a lifelong learning process for students, teachers, mentors and community partners,” said Cisneros. “It involves encouraging others to be their best selves, to stop judgment and see opportunity and, most importantly, to become part of the solution. The classroom is where I belong and can become my full self through new experiences, challenges and happiness.” Award recipients will be announced Thursday, Sept. 11, during a reception in the Popp Martin Student Union Multipurpose Room.

Important Information for Faculty and Staff

Early Alerts This Week

Early Alerts are due for all 1000/2000 level courses by 12:00 p.m. on Friday, September 12.  Are you new to Charlotte? Check out the Advisor Tool Kit page. CONNECT Best Practices training modules are located on Canvas under published courses. Advisors and faculty can request a one on one or team session follow up training centered around your departmental initiatives. After completion of the training modules, follow up training requests can be made here. For more information contact Gary Martinez, Advising Systems Specialist, or LeeFredrick Bowen, Executive Director of Advising Systems.

NEXT WEEK German Campus Week – 9/15-9/20

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RDL & JFDA

Applications for Reassignments of Duties and Junior Faculty Development Awards to be taken during Academic Year 2026-27 are due by Monday, November 3, 2025, at 5 p.m.

Review the detailed instructions in the guidelines for each award at CHESS Faculty Development Awards

Nominations for International Education Awards

The Office of International Programs is pleased to welcome nominations (self and by others) for the 2025 Faculty International Education Award, the 2025 Staff International Education Award and the 2025 Student International Education Award. The Faculty International Education Award recognizes a faculty member for his/her outstanding contributions to the enhancement of the international education experience at UNC Charlotte. The Staff International Education Award recognizes non-faculty university employees who support internationalization efforts at UNC Charlotte. The Student International Education Award recognizes outstanding contributions and involvement in international programs and studies at UNC Charlotte. Nominations may come from any member of the University community for any of the awards. The deadline for Faculty, Staff and Student International Education Awards nominations is September 22. For nomination and other information, visit the International Education Awards website and refer to the specific award. Award recipients will be recognized at the International Education Celebration on Thursday, November 17. IE awards website.

SOTL Grant Proposals

The Faculty Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Grants Committee is now accepting proposals for projects that explore the role of AI in teaching and learning. These grants provide faculty with the opportunity to evaluate the impacts of AI on student learning, instructional practices, and educational outcomes. Whether you are testing new approaches, investigating challenges, or assessing opportunities, this is your chance to contribute to the growing body of knowledge on AI in education. Proposals are due October 1. Funding will be awarded by Winter Break. Take this opportunity to advance your research, innovate in the classroom, and help shape the future of teaching with AI. Learn More and Submit

CIVIQ -CHESS Initiative on Very Important Questions 

CIVIQ represents a structured approach to interdisciplinary research and teaching, as well as to public-facing scholarship. CIVIQ projects address a Very Important Question that confronts the world today or has done so in the past. What constitutes a “Very Important Question” is construed broadly to include any major issue or challenge that confronts the Charlotte area, North Carolina, or any other society/region, or that poses an intellectual, philosophical, religious or other conceptual problem. Proposals are welcome from all areas of study and methodological approaches. Applications for the CIVIQ 2026 Cohort are due on Monday, September 29, 2025, by 5:00 p.m. Co-PIs should follow the detailed instructions in the guidelines below for the designated award, combine their materials into a single PDF file (LastnameCoPI1_LastnameCoPI2_CIVIQ), and submit them using this form.

Request for Proposals: Witness in Residence Initiative

Submit a suggestion for the Witness in Residence initiative! Your suggestions for Spring 2026 are requested by September 29 for a residency tentatively scheduled for the week of  March 23. However, you are encouraged to submit whenever you encounter an interesting candidate and all themes are invited. For the Spring we are especially interested in a theme that is global and/or within the social/environmental sciences, to balance the recent local/humanities perspective. Please also send ideas for next Fall. 

Wishing you all a wonderful week. Thank you for all you do. 

All the best,

Anabel