This Week in LANG 1/21/2025

January 21, 2025
Categories: Community Events, Conference, Cultural Events, General Events, General News Tags: 2025, french, german, heritage, japanese, spanish

In this Edition: **Chair Remote this week, Office Hours: T 10-12, W 2-4, R 3-5**

Dates and Events this Week

Sunday, January 26

  • Arrival of candidate 1, please make sure you have signed up

Looking Ahead Dates and Events Spring 2025

January 26-28

Campus Interview 1

January 28-30

Campus Interview 2

February 2-4

Campus Interview 3

February 5

  • Submit Publications and Awards for CY 2024 here: on this form 

February 7

  • Department Meeting

February 20 

  • Poetry Slam

February 20-21

  • Heritage Language Learning Symposium

February 21-22

  • SEACS Conference

March 14

  • Department Meeting

April 11

  • Save the Date for possible Department Meeting

May 1

  • Reading Day, Department Meeting and End of Year Potluck

Information for Faculty and Staff

Dean’s Office Hours

The Dean will hold online office hours for faculty and staff who would like to discuss general thoughts or concerns about CHESS. These will be one-hour Zoom sessions with no agenda that you can log into and share your thoughts and observations in an informal discussion. This semester’s office hours will take place on Monday, Jan 27, 4:00-5:00, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 3:00-4:00, and Monday, March 24, 3:00-4:00.

Faculty / Staff Achievement Recognition: Call for Publications, Honors

The Dean’s Office is preparing for the 2025 Faculty and Staff Achievement Recognition Reception on Thursday, March 13, at 4 p.m. This year, in addition to Teaching Awards, there will be several administrative service awards for faculty and staff, which will be organized in collaboration with our Chairs. Please use this form to report accomplishments for calendar year 2024 (One item per box please; there will be an opportunity to submit again at the end). There will be a separate process for submitting service awards. Please submit publications and other accomplishments  on this form by Wednesday, February 5.

CHESS Grants 101 Webinar Series
In collaboration with the Center for Research Excellence in the Division of Research, we are offering a series of webinars for faculty who are curious about applying for external funding and want to learn more about the process at UNC Charlotte. The webinars are open to faculty and staff at all levels, and are geared toward those who do not already have a lot of grant experience. Additional information and a registration link for each session can be found on the CHESS Research website. 

Grant Life Cycle at UNC Charlotte

Wednesday, January 22 (11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.)

Funding Opportunities in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Wednesday, February 26 (11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.)

Niner Research Training

Wednesday, March 26 (11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.)

Preparing Grant Budgets

Wednesday, April 23 (11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.)

AI Task Force on Teaching and Learning ‘AI Open Swim’

Justin Cary is hosting an AI Task Force on Teaching and Learning ‘AI Open Swim” event on Tuesday, January 28 in collaboration with Beth Caruso at Atkins Library Visualization Lab from 10:00am-2:00pm for any CHESS Faculty and Staff to drop by and share thoughts and conversation around the goals of the AI Task Force: 

1). Philosophical Approach to AI in Teaching and Learning 

2). Policy Review 

3). Building Faculty Capacity for AI Integration in Teaching and Learning 

Folks are welcome to drop in and out any time during the open swim.

Canvas Updates

The Canvas login URL changed this semester. As a result, previously created Zoom meetings and recordings will not automatically display in the Canvas Zoom interface. Read how to access them here.

Upcoming Events

For more information, please visit the website.

Poetry Slam 

Yukko Yokono, Susana Cisneros, Don Cross, Maria Mahaffey and Xiaohong Hu Mueller invite you to the 8th Multi-Language Poetry Slam
Date & Time: Thursday, February 20, 2025, 7:00–9:00 pm
Location: Cone Center, After Hours
Submission Deadline: Thursday, February 13, 2025, at 11:59 pm

SEACS 2025 February 21-22

Please join us for SEACS 2025 on Friday afternoon, February 21 and all day Saturday, February 22.  For more information, visit theseacs.org.

Thank you for all you do. 

All the best,

Anabel