On behalf of the Offices of the Chancellor and the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, the Carolina Women’s Center is pleased to announce the call for nominations for the 2016 University Awards for the Advancement of Women. This award recognizes contributions to the advancement of women at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for people of all genders.
This year, four individuals – one faculty member, one staff member, one undergraduate and one graduate student/postdoctoral scholar – may be selected to receive the award. The faculty and staff recipients each receive $5000 and the undergraduate/graduate student/postdoctoral scholar recipient receives $2500. Awardees will be honored in a ceremony on Fri., Mar. 4 from 3:00-4:30pm, in the Anne Queen Lounge of the Campus Y.
Please submit nominations for individuals who have contributed in one or more of the following ways:
- Elevated the status of women on campus in sustainable ways;
- Helped to improve campus policies affecting women;
- Promoted and advanced the recruitment, retention and upward mobility of women;
- Participated in and assisted in the establishment of professional development opportunities for women; and/or
- Participated in and assisted in the establishment of academic mentoring for women.
To submit a nomination, please use the online form. The deadline for nominations is Friday, February 12, at 5:00 p.m.
All faculty and staff nominees must be permanent, current employees. No self-nominations or posthumous nominations will be accepted. Carolina Women’s Center administrators and staff are not eligible for nomination.
Published February 1, 2016.