- Are you looking for things to do this summer? Do you want to make an impact in your community? Volunteer with Pack Essentials! They are looking for members of the NC State community to volunteer at Feed the Pack Food Pantry over the 2025 summer term. During the summer, most of their usual student volunteers are out of town for the break. This means there are lots of opportunities to get involved! From a one-time commitment to a recurring volunteer shift, if you are interested in volunteering with them please fill out this interest form.
NC State staff members can use Wolftime community service hours to volunteer with the food pantry! Check with your HR representative if you have questions. Questions for Feed the Pack? Email: feedthepackvolunteer@ncsu.edu
From the Office of Assessment and Accreditation
- The Packways: Learning by Doing team is wrapping up a successful pilot year. The 53 faculty and staff who have completed professional development recently scored student reflections on the value of their high-impact experience and its impact on their personal and professional goals. This summer, we will focus on reviewing the data collected (e.g., student reflections, faculty/staff feedback and change in self-efficacy, focus group data and results from Institutional Strategy and Analysis’ sophomore survey), reflecting on progress and lessons learned and planning to revise and expand Packways for AY 25-26. To stay up to date on news and opportunities, please join our listserv at go.ncsu.edu/packwayslistserv.
From Continuing and Lifelong Education:
- NC State marked Earth Day with its annual Celebration of Sustainability, recognizing the people, projects, and ideas making a difference across campus. Hosted by the NC State Office of Sustainability and supported by the Climate and Sustainability Academy and the Sustainability Council, the 2025 Celebration of Sustainability event highlighted the university’s efforts to create lasting environmental, social, and economic impact.
- When Liza Bunce signed up for NC State’s TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) certificate program, she expected to build skills in lesson planning and cross-cultural communication. What she didn’t expect was that the program would take her from Saturday workshops in Raleigh to a small village on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica where she’d spend spring break teaching English to children, teenagers and adults. Learn more.
- When most people think about golf careers, they imagine professional players or local club pros. But NC State Continuing and Lifelong Education is changing that narrative with an innovative Professional Caddie Certification Program that’s turning heads in both the higher education and golf circles. Launched in February 2025, the program has already made waves by becoming the first university-accredited caddie certification course in the country. Just one month later, the program was awarded the NC State Economic Development Partnership Award, a recognition presented by the university’s Office of Outreach and Engagement honoring programs that significantly contribute to workforce development, economic growth and industry partnerships in North Carolina. Learn more.
From the Data Science and AI Academy:
- The Data Science and AI Academy invites you to participate in our monthly AI Hot Topics @ NC State series. The series is an opportunity for people curious about AI to network with experts, scholars and practitioners.
- When? Thursday, May 15, 2025
- Where? Raleigh Founded, Centennial Campus (1017 Main Campus Dr., Raleigh, NC 27606)
- What time? 8:45 a.m.– 9:45 a.m.
- Registration link: go.ncsu.edu/ai.hot.topics/
From DELTA:
- Are you an instructor looking to discover new ways to engage students using Moodle? Join DELTA for NC State’s first-ever Moodle Exchange held May 20 from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in SAS Hall. This one-day, in-person technology conference brings instructors and Moodle experts together to share best practices and explore innovative teaching methods. Learn more and register today.
- What’s New in the DELTA Knowledge Base? We’ll tell you! Check out this list of helpful instructional technology articles for managing your course. The DELTA Knowledge Base is constantly being updated and is a great resource for instant support. View the highlights.
- Learn more about integrating cognition, self-regulation, motivation and metacognition: a framework of post-pandemic flipped classroom design. A team of instructor designers and research scholars worked together on a hybrid and flipped learning design framework and their work was recently published in the Educational Technology Research & Development Journal. Project leads included Yan Shen, Dan Spencer and Jennifer Tagsold, with contributions from team members Stephen Bader, David Tredwell, Ben Huckaby, and Jeff Williford.
From the Office for Faculty Excellence:
- Join the OFE team for 2025-26! We are looking to fund three Faculty Fellows who will facilitate OFE RED TH!NK certification program, assist with the Campus Writing and Speaking Program (CWSP), and assist with External Awards and Recognition. The fellow positions are:
- A fellow to assist with the TH!NK Critical and Creative Thinking Certification
- A fellow to assist with the CWSP
- A fellow to assist with External Awards and Recognition
Each fellow will receive $2500 per semester for each of the fall and spring terms, beginning August 16, 2025, and ending May 15, 2026. Faculty with either nine- or 12-month appointments are eligible. Some positions may have the possibility for renewal through a second year.
- Academic success in higher education is all about relationships, from research collaborations and learning from teaching experts to connecting with students; building a robust network throughout your career is crucial for scholarly and instructional development. The SPARK 2025 program, Building Your Network: Mentors, Coaches and Sponsors for Faculty Success, is designed to help faculty, staff and graduate students discern their current needs and strategically cultivate a powerful network of mentors, coaches and sponsors to achieve career goals at every stage.
Over four dynamic weeks, you’ll receive a podcast, printable resources and a blog post each week, covering topics like understanding your support needs, the nuances of mentoring and coaching, and the power of sponsorship, while also gaining tips on how to be a better mentor, coach or sponsor yourself. You can also engage in conversation around these topics with other participants using social media channels, fostering a collaborative learning environment. By the end of July, you’ll walk away with a solid plan to enhance your existing network to meet your future aspirations. Our program this year is a collaboration between NC State and Georgia Tech. Enroll today!
From the Office of Global Engagement:
- On April 16, NC State Global hosted its annual Global Engagement Honors & Awards event to recognize recipients of the Outstanding Global Engagement Award, Jackson Rigney International Service Award and the Distinguished Global Alumni Award. Provost Arden welcomed guests and College of Humanities and Social Sciences Dean Deanna Dannels gave an inspiring keynote address on the value of global learning for our students and researchers.
- NC State honored its 2023–24 cohort of Chancellor’s Study Abroad Scholarship recipients at a reception on March 21. Held in the Talley Student Union, the event recognized students who participated in study abroad programs during fall 2023, spring 2024, and summer 2024, and celebrated the academic and personal achievements gained through these international experiences.
- Commencement season is upon us, and the Global Training Initiative proudly celebrates the accomplishments of our undergraduate and graduate student workers who have demonstrated intellectual curiosity and a commitment to excellence in their work with us as well as throughout their academic journeys. The Class of 2025 is poised to make meaningful contributions as they move on to the next chapter of their lives, so we want to take the time to thank and celebrate each one of them.
- Expand your global research impact by applying for UGPN Seed Funding! The University Global Partnership Network Research Collaboration Fund is now accepting proposals to support international research partnerships between NC State, USP – Universidade de São Paulo and the University of Surrey. This year’s funding call offers up to $10,000 per institution—meaning bilateral projects can receive up to $20,000, and trilateral projects up to $30,000. Proposals are due by May 19, with the funding period going from August 1, 2025 to July 31, 2026, with an extension possible.
- 2025 Research Priorities:
- Address at least two UN Sustainable Development Goals
- Take a transdisciplinary approach across STEM, Social Sciences, Humanities, and the Arts
- Focus on key global challenges:
- Food and water solutions
- Climate change and healthy communities
- One Health (human, animal, plant, and environmental health)
From the Global One Health Academy:
- Do you have a scientific question that could engage the campus community in the research process? If so, your project could be this year’s highlighted project through the Citizen Science Campus! We are excited to announce a call for proposals for the Citizen Science Incubator, a platform for identifying one to two focal projects of the year for the Citizen Science Campus. The selected Citizen Science Incubator project(s) will be featured in two unique campus programs: Pack Science Challenge and Wicked Problems, Wolfpack Solutions. Deadline: Friday, May 30, 11:59 p.m.
- David Eggleston, an Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor in the College of Sciences, was a recipient of the 2024 Faculty Travel Awards, where he traveled to Northern Italy. Learn more about Eggleston and how the Global One Health Academy helped support his research on blue crab harvest, processing, marketing, and distribution in Northern Italy through his featured spotlight.
- Kaylin Lewandowski, a Ph.D. student in entomology and plant pathology, was a recipient of the Spring 2024 Graduate Travel Awards, and traveled to Uganda. Learn more about Kaylin and how the Global One Health Academy has helped support her research endeavors through her featured spotlight!
From the Institute for Emerging Issues:
- More than 20 North Carolina workforce leaders recently graduated from IEI’s 2025 Strategic Workforce Leadership Initiative, a program designed to build strong, committed and capable leaders who understand the economic conditions of their community and state, and are able to leverage those strengths to capitalize on opportunities as they emerge.
From Institutional Strategy and Analysis:
- Implementation Insights is a regular article series providing initiative updates and cross-cutting observations related to NC State’s implementation plan. The May article encourages leaders to identify early on when an initiative’s success is dependent on people adopting new behaviors. It includes a simple template for identifying who is affected by a change initiative and to what extent. Read more here.
From the Office of Information Technology:
- Are your documents, spreadsheets, PDFs and other digital content accessible? Build accessibility in from the start with these popular document accessibility checkers.
- IT emergencies happen even after the Help Desk is closed, but on-call support is available after hours. Learn what qualifies as an IT emergency and how to report it.
From the NC State University Libraries:
- The Hill Library will be closed throughout summer 2025 for electrical infrastructure repairs. Hill’s summer closure is scheduled to begin May 5 after commencement. The work should take 6-8 weeks, with the expectation that the Hill Library will reopen no later than August 1. All online Libraries services will continue on their regular schedule. The Hunt Library and branch Libraries (Natural Resources, Veterinary Medicine, Design) will operate on their regular schedule as well.
- The Libraries is pleased to announce the opening of the Maker Studio at the Hunt Library—a new space for hands-on making in the heart of Centennial Campus. With a fleet of 3D printers, heavy-duty sewing machines and professional soldering tools, this space is built for experimentation, innovation and creativity. The Maker Studio also features vinyl cutting, hand tools, electronics, low-fidelity prototyping tools and button makers. All services are free and open to the NC State community. Open from noon-5 p.m., Monday through Friday, the space is located in room 4401 on Hunt’s fourth floor.
- The NC State University Libraries is pleased to announce the appointment of the 2025-28 class of Libraries Fellows. Shira Greer will begin her fellowship in July and Laquanda M. Fields will join in September. The Libraries Fellows Program develops academic library leaders of the future, giving new librarians the opportunity to build their knowledge and expertise in a home department and to play a leadership role in an initiative of strategic importance for the Libraries. Fellows are appointed for a three-year term as members of the Libraries faculty. Since its inception in 1999, the program has attracted many highly talented graduates from universities throughout North America.
