{"id":2301,"date":"2025-05-09T05:00:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T09:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/med-facultyaffairs.sites.unc.edu\/?page_id=2301"},"modified":"2026-05-28T15:47:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T19:47:55","slug":"programs-and-initiatives","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/facultyaffairs\/programs-and-initiatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Programs and Initiatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr  style=\"margin:30px 0\"class=\" rule-thin osc-rule\" \/>\n<h2>Affinity Groups<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/facultyaffairs\/programs-and-initiates\/asian-american-faculty-association\/\">Asian American Faculty Association (AAFA)<\/a><span style=\"color: #333333\"> &#8211; The AAFA\u2019s goal is to support, empower, and celebrate Asian American faculty and to foster opportunities for networking, communication, and growth. The AAFA Affinity Group is open to all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/facultyaffairs\/programs-and-initiatives\/apwims\/\">Association for Professional Women in Medical Sciences (APWIMS)<\/a><span style=\"color: #333333\"> &#8211; The APWIMS mission is to facilitate the professional development of all women in the School of Medicine through information sharing, networking, and career development opportunities. The APWIMS Affinity Group is open to all.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Additional Resources<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"btn btn-primary btn-lg  oscitas-bootstrap-container\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/facultyaffairs\/resources-for-department-leadership-and-faculty\/\">Office Contact List for Leadership and Faculty<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cfe.unc.edu\/\">Center for Faculty Excellence<\/a> &#8211; The Center for Faculty Excellence is UNC-Chapel Hill\u2019s pan-university faculty development center. Their mission is to enable faculty members in all disciplines to reach their goals in teaching, research, mentoring, and leadership throughout their careers.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hsl.lib.unc.edu\/\">Health Sciences Library<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/odum.unc.edu\/\">UNC Odum Institute<\/a> &#8211; End-to-end research support, assistance with statistics and Qualtrics, surveys, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Affinity Groups Asian American Faculty Association (AAFA) &#8211; The AAFA\u2019s goal is to support, empower, and celebrate Asian American faculty and to foster opportunities for networking, communication, and growth. The AAFA Affinity Group is open to all. Association for Professional Women in Medical Sciences (APWIMS) &#8211; The APWIMS mission is to facilitate the professional development &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/facultyaffairs\/programs-and-initiatives\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Programs and Initiatives\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68816,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":27,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/front-page.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2301","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","odd"],"acf":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/facultyaffairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/facultyaffairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/facultyaffairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/facultyaffairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68816"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/facultyaffairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2301"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/facultyaffairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17798,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/facultyaffairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2301\/revisions\/17798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/facultyaffairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}