The ADVANCE Center works with faculty, graduate students and leaders to disrupt institutional inequities. Our services support all WVU departments and outside institutions to improve climate, culture and collaboration in working teams.
View Our ServicesThe ADVANCE Center provides professional development and networking opportunities, workshops, webinars, dissertation groups, mentoring, writing support and more.
The Center’s professional staff bring experience from multiple disciplines and units across campus to offer data-driven and outcome-based approaches to achieving personal and professional goals and unit missions.
Dialogues are available to academic leaders to help improve organizational climate, culture and effectiveness by building member capacity to communicate, collaborate and institutionalize behaviors that increase overall job satisfaction and improve professional and organizational outcomes.
Faculty, instructors and graduate teaching assistants across all WVU campuses are invited to explore generative AI and its ethical use and impact on student creativity and critical thinking. No prior experience with GenAI required.
The ADVANCE Center manages membership in NCFDD, a leading provider in career development and mentoring for faculty and graduate students. Membership is free with a WVU account. To create an account, log in with your WVU email.
The ADVANCE Center is in Field Hall (formerly known as the Business and Economics Building) on the Downtown Campus.
Enter from the main entrance of Field Hall on University Avenue. Walk toward the elevator or stairs to the 2nd floor. The ADVANCE Center is in room 2202 (to the right of the elevator).
If you are entering from the back of the building, (this puts you on the 1st floor) turn left and walk towards the front of the building and take the elevator or stairs to the 2nd floor. The ADVANCE Center will be to the left.
ADVANCE Center
1601 University Avenue
Morgantown, WV 26506
Through unique courses and strategic processes, the ADVANCE Center's interdisciplinary team of scholars works with units, departments and colleges across campus to achieve customized goals that will lead to an internal climate characterized by innovation, collaboration, equity, and inclusion.
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