Faculty executive committee considers UNC's online education
Faculty members are up in the air about UNC’s future in online learning.
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Faculty members are up in the air about UNC’s future in online learning.
In an effort to create a bond between academics and athletics, the University’s athletic teams have now been assigned a member of the Faculty Athletics Committee to assist student athletes with academic advising.
As the UNC system’s five-year plan comes to an end and a new one is in the works, the University’s Faculty Executive Committee expressed concerns about possible changes to the plan.
Professors will now be required to be painstakingly clear about course expectations from the start — something many of them were doing anyway.
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At the first meeting of the Faculty Council today, members are standing in support of Chancellor Holden Thorp.
Some UNC alumni leave the school and never look back. Lee Dirks never stopped returning.
In the wake of recent NCAA sanctions and widespread criticism of the UNC athletic department, University administrators are striving to turn over a new leaf.
While broadcast rights have proven lucrative for UNC’s athletic department, its coaches’ salaries are soaking up much of that revenue.
Professors hoping to add the word “distinguished” before their title at UNC might have to wait a while.
The financially strapped state legislature has given a small boost to a nearly depleted faculty retention fund — but some administrators say it’s still not enough to keep top faculty.
The full Board of Trustees will convene today for the first time since a report on academic fraud in the African and Afro-American studies department was released by the University.
Despite common stereotypes, student athletes at UNC have been found to choose many of the same majors as their non-athlete peers.
Faculty retention has been at the top of the UNC administration’s agenda for months, and student leaders have started contributing to the discussion.
There is a common misconception that student athletes can “cherry-pick” their schedules to get the most desired classes at coveted times.
UNC’s Faculty Council is poised to vote on a graduate-level honor system reform — one that is long overdue, proponents say.