UNC MPA Calendar

Writing Wednesday Drop-in Co-Working Space

When: Every Wednesday from 10:00AM to 2:00PM

Where: Graduate Student Center (GSC)

Stop in and focus on your reading, writing or studying. No registration necessary and light refreshments are always provided!

Writing and Learning Center Upcoming Events

ADHD/LD Peer Connect

Tuesday, March 18

4:00–5:00 PM

SASB North 2115

Weekly group to join other peers with ADHD/LD, where you can exchange ideas, support each other, and learn strategies that support academic success.

Graduate Student Academic Coaching Group

Every Monday in Spring 2025

3:00 PM–4:00 PM

Greenlaw 221

Looking for support in grad school? Trying to make progress on your coursework, thesis, or dissertation? Seeking greater balance or accountability in your academic and professional life? Join our weekly coaching group for graduate students! No registration necessary.

Support Groups at CAPS Spring 2025

UNC Counseling and Psychological Services has a number of Interest Groups offered this term. Details on joining can be found on their website, and in the links in buttons below. In-person and Zoom options are available. Check out options including:

• Autistic Students Social Group
• Chronic Illness Support
• Courage to Heal: A Sexual Assault Recovery Group
• Empowering Black Women
• First in the Family
• Graduate/Professional Student & Postdoc Support
• Grief Group: Living with Loss
• In, Out, & In Between: A Gender & Sexuality Spectrum Group
• Between the Boxes: Multi-Racial Support Group

and more!

World Café

Monday, March 24 12:00PM - 1:00PM

Join ISSS and Graduate Student Success for this World Cafe event at the GSC on March 24 from 12:00PM-1:00PM. If you would like to help lead a conversation, please contact Annie Lundeen. Afterward, we will enjoy refreshments from a local restaurant. Registration is required.

LGBTQIA+ Seminar March 22

First Cary United Methodist Church and St. Francis United Methodist Church are excited to co-sponsor a free LGBTQIA+ seminar on Saturday, March 22, 2025, from 9 am to 12:30 pm at St. Francis UMC, 2965 Kildaire Farm Rd., Cary, NC 27518.

This interactive seminar will be led by Angel Collie, Director of Duke’s Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity. It will cover a host of topics, including: 

• Understanding key terms and pronouns used in the LGBTQIA+ community;
• Current laws passed in NC that impact the LGBTQIA+ community;
• LGBTQIA+ historical background with key dates and events;
• Resources that are currently available to support members of the LGBTQIA+ community; and
• How churches/synagogues, groups, individuals, and the community can provide support to members of the LGBTQIA+ community.

Find out more and register here by March 7.

Sustainable Carolina Repair Fair

Kick off Earth Month with Sustainable Carolina’s Repair Fair, in partnership with BeAM. Join us on Tuesday, April 1 from 10 am - 2 pm in the Murray Hall lobby.

We invite students, faculty and staff to bring items to be fixed or volunteer at the event! We’re looking for volunteers who have experience repairing electronics/small appliances, clothes, jewelry, and anything else someone might bring in from home. Apply to volunteer and submit your items to repair here.

Nominate an Outstanding Mentor for a Faculty Mentoring Award!

Has a UNC faculty mentor made a meaningful difference in your life? Nominate them today for consideration for a Faculty Mentoring Award.

Nominations for the 2025 Faculty Mentoring Awards sponsored by the Carolina Women’s Leadership Council are now open.

Since 2006, the Carolina Women’s Leadership Council has sponsored the Faculty Mentoring Awards to recognize outstanding faculty members who go the extra mile to guide, mentor and teach. Each year the Council recognizes outstanding faculty mentors with awards in each of the following categories:

· Faculty-to-undergraduate student mentoring

· Faculty-to-graduate student mentoring

· Faculty-to-junior faculty mentoring

View the list of previous Faculty Mentoring Award recipients.

Nominations for Faculty Mentoring Awards can be submitted by any student, faculty, or staff member. All faculty who mentor students, graduate students, and/or faculty are eligible. Nominations are due by Monday, April 7, 2025.

Nominate a Faculty Mentor here.

Contact our team at CFEMentoringDevelopment@unc.edu for questions.

Volunteer Judges needed for National High School Ethics Bowl National Championship

The weekend of April 11-13, 2025 the Parr Center for Ethics (Part of the UNC Philosophy Department) will host the National High School Ethics Bowl (NHSEB) National Championship, in the Graham Student Union on UNC Campus.

I’m writing in hopes that you’ll share this information with your graduate student body to ask if they would like to join us as volunteer judges for the NHSEB's 2025 national competition. As a judge, your students would play a crucial role in helping high schoolers reason ethically about a wide variety of challenging issues and engage productively in contexts of disagreement. Unlike typical debate competitions, Ethics Bowl rewards students for the depth and breadth of their thought, their ability to think carefully about complex problems, and the consideration they display of the perspectives of their peers. As always, the support and engagement of our community is a vital part of what makes these conversations valuable to our students! It means so much to the competitors to have UNC students there, and it wouldn’t be possible to make this important event a continued success without our incredible volunteers.

No particular background or training in philosophy is required to serve as a judge. Indeed, we prefer a variety of volunteers from different educational contexts and backgrounds! In addition to the training resources linked below, the Parr Center team will also provide brief training sessions for judges during the weeks leading up to the event.

If you, your students, or staff and faculty in your department are available to volunteer, please have them fill out our interest form as soon as possible with information and availability here. We will send out confirmation of official judging assignments in short order.

Judge Resources 

·             NHSEB ​National Case Set (2025)

·             NHSEBAcademy Judge Training Videos

·             NHSEBAcademy JudgeKit: A downloadable collection of all resources needed to get started as a judge, including our full Rules Manual, NHSEB’s Scoring Criteria, and the NHSEB Score Sheet.

Please don’t hesitate to be in touch with any questions you may have, and I thank you, as always, for your support.

Anyone who wishes to come to the event as a spectator will be more than welcome, and I very much hope to see you at the NHSEB next month!

Thank you so much for your time,

Leo Kirby (he/him)

Director, National High School Ethics Bowl