I am delighted to welcome you to the web site for graduate faculty and staff.  As the importance of graduate education increases at UNC Charlotte, the Graduate School will continue to expand its programmatic initiatives.  More than ever, graduate faculty and staff need instant access to the most up-to-date information available.  This web site has been designed as a communication tool to help you get your questions answered and as a venue to the resources provided by the Graduate School and University to support graduate education.  We hope you will find the site informative and user friendly.  Since it will always be a "work in progress", we welcome your comments and suggestions.

In the Fall 2004 semester, the Graduate School, ProQuest/UMI and the Atkins Library teamed up to pilot a project for the submission of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). The initial stage of the ETD program is completely voluntary and open to doctoral students in any discipline. Rather than submitting a dissertation to the Graduate School on 100% cotton paper, students now have the option of electronically submitting an Adobe Acrobat PDF file via a Web interface to satisfy all Graduate School requirements. If you are interested in learning more about this project, please access the UNC Charlotte ETD Project Web Site.

Special Promotion: Submit an ETD and Receive a Leather UNC Charlotte Portfolio

To encourage doctoral students to take advantage of the benefits of submitting a dissertation electronically, the Graduate School is giving a UNC Charlotte leather portfolio to each doctoral student who submits an ETD during the 2007-2008 academic year.

Graduate Dean's Distinguished Dissertation Awards

Nomination deadline - June 1st, 2008

Faculty are invited to nominate outstanding dissertations which demonstrate excellent scholarship. These awards recognize excellence and contribution of knowledge in four areas: MATHEMATICS, PHYSICAL SCIENCES & ENGINEERING; BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; SOCIAL SCIENCES; AND EDUCATION & BUSINESS. To be eligible for this award, the dissertation must be completed between July 1, 2006 and June 30, 2008.

Each winner receives a $1000 award and a plaque of distinction.

For detailed information on the nominating process, please click HERE.

Distinguished Dissertation Award Nomination Form

Tips of the Trade for Successful Recruiting

Interested in learning more about identifying and recruiting students to your graduate program, creating and maintaining an informative website, or determining candidate selection processes and evaluating program capacity?  If so, click HERE.

Graduate Education in North Carolina

North Carolina Council of Graduate Schools (NCCGS) White Paper entitled Graduate Education in the UNC System:  Meeting the Challenges of the New Millennium.

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