Advance Your Career
This section contains information to assist you with navigating the promotion and tenure process, ensuring a successful academic progression. In addition, there is information about professorships and other development opportunities.
Below is a brief description of the resources currently available in this section. If you would like to notify us of other resources that would be helpful for us to include here, please contact us.
Visit this page to view the appointment and promotion policies for your academic unit.
Each academic unit at the university has policies that govern the appointment and promotion of faculty on both the fixed-term and tenure-track. These policies provide a structured framework that helps maintain academic standards, ensure the quality of education and research, and incentivize faculty members for their contributions.
Visit this page to view the schedule of review for tenure-track and tenured faculty recommendations for appointment, promotion, and conferral of tenure.
Recommendations regarding tenure-track and tenured faculty appointments and department chair appointments require multiple levels of committee review before submission to the Board of Trustees. This schedule provides due dates for submission of dossier materials and meeting dates for the Health Sciences Advisory Committee, Appointment Promotion, and Tenure Committee, and Board of Trustees.
Visit this website to learn about opportunities to apply for professorships and other awards through the Office of the Provost.
The Office of the Provost administers several awards and development programs, such as the Junior Faculty Development Awards, Senior Faculty Research and Scholarly Leaves, the Nannerl O. Keohane Distinguised Visiting Professorship, C. Felix Harvey Award, and University Teaching Awards.
Institute for Arts & Humanities
Visit this website to explore opportunities for development and career advancement support offered through the Institute for Arts & Humanities.
The Institute for the Arts and Humanities serves as UNC’s faculty home for interdisciplinary conversation and collaboration. Its mission is to help the university recruit, refresh, develop, and retain a world-class faculty of scholars and teachers. At the heart of this mission is the affirmation of the crucial value of the arts and humanities to the life of the university and the world.