Faculty Welfare Resources
- American Association of University Professors Chapel Hill is dedicated to the support of academic freedom and shared governance in American higher education and the address of these issues and concerns on behalf of faculty and teaching staff on campus.
- American Indian Center facilitates the inclusion of American Indians in the Carolina community.
- The Anne Queen Faculty Commons is a popular place for faculty to meet. Beginning at 1:30 p.m., faculty groups can reserve the room for scheduled events.
- The Association for Professional Women in Medical Sciences is an organization that supports equitable practices and facilitates the professional development of all women in the school of medicine through information sharing, networking, and career development opportunities.
- The Association for Women Faculty and Professionals offers women faculty and professionals opportunities for fun, networking and learning through social activities, seminars, discussion groups and other events.
- Bell Tower Toastmasters provides a mutually supportive, positive, and fun learning environment in which every member has the opportunity to develop communication and leadership skills.
- BRIDGES is an intensive professional development program for women in higher education who seek to gain or strengthen their academic leadership capabilities.
- Carolina Black Caucus is an organization devoted to fostering, supporting and celebrating the achievement of black employees at the University. Membership is open to all full-time administrators, faculty, staff, and graduate students.
- Carolina Women’s Center works to create an inclusive education and work environment where gender is not a barrier to success, difference and diversity are celebrated, and everyone is safe to live, learn, teach, and work without threat of harm or unequal treatment.
- Community and Diversity Committee works to foster community and promote pluralism in the University by encouraging social interaction, mutual acceptance and respect among various groups on campus. The committee is especially attentive to matters generated by discrimination on the basis of age, race, gender, disability, religion, socio-economic status, national or ethnic origin, or sexual orientation.
- Diversity and Multicultural Affairs provides tools to foster university-wide leadership in building and sustaining an inclusive campus community that values and respects all members of the university community and beyond.
- Employee Assistance Program is a free confidential counseling and resource program that helps University employees and their families deal with both personal and work-related concerns. All permanent employees and their dependents are eligible; the benefit is also available to former employees for up to six months after leaving the University.
- Faculty Welfare Committee monitors and works toward the improvement of faculty working conditions, including salaries and benefits.
- Professional Development Opportunities for Employees provides many learning opportunities for Carolina employees. Human Resources coordinates, designs and delivers training programs for employees and offers organizational development for groups of faculty and staff.
- International Student and Scholar Services is the main administrative office for international students, research scholars and visiting professors at UNC. In addition to administrative and counseling duties, ISSS provides programming designed to help foreign students and scholars maximize their experience at UNC.
- LGBTQ Center works to create a welcoming and inclusive environment for UNC-Chapel Hill community members of all sexual orientations, gender identities and gender expressions through educational programs, direct services and resources, and advocacy.
- Progressive Faculty Network brings together faculty to further the causes of economic and social justice.
- Provost’s Committee on LGBTQ Life takes up issues surrounding student, staff, and faculty experiences of or concerns about harassment based on sexual orientation, gender identity and/or gender expression.
- State Employees Association of North Carolina is the South’s leading state employees’ association. We work to gain respect in the legislature for hardworking state employees and valuable retirees who dedicated their careers to state service.
- UNC-Chapel Hill Retired Faculty Association is a voluntary, non-profit association of retired former faculty members of UNC-CH and other institutions of higher learning as well as other staff members, and their surviving spouses, who have joined together to maintain ties to the University and to promote their common interests.
- Women in Science Deserve Opportunities and Mentoring (WISDOM) is a grassroots initiative that was created in 2012 with the mission and purpose of supporting and advancing UNC women postdoctoral fellows and faculty across all scientific disciplines.
