Kevin Guskiewicz to step down as UNC chancellor for MSU presidency
After 28 years at the University, Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz will leave his role at UNC.
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After 28 years at the University, Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz will leave his role at UNC.
Nearly a year after the UNC Board of Trustees passed a resolution to accelerate the development of a new School of Civic Life and Leadership — a move that many faculty members said they were not consulted about — development of the SCiLL is being led by a group of 9 inaugural faculty members with legislative funding.
During 2023, many students worked to highlight representation of their communities on campus. Here is a rundown of some of the most notable student projects that aim to bring more inclusivity to UNC:
This year, students and faculty experienced a series of events on campus that many considered to threaten the safety of the UNC community.
This year, several new leaders stepped into roles on campus. These changes come after eight deans stepped down in 2022, creating what new faculty chair Beth Moracco called “a huge amount of change.”
After the Aug. 28 shooting and the Sept 13. on-campus gun threat, some professors expressed feelings of unpreparedness for lockdown situations. Professors shared concerns such as not knowing how to lock classroom doors or whether to pause instruction and not being aware of protocol.Since these events, the University has seen a spike in demand for in-person and online emergency preparedness trainings for faculty, staff and students, UNC Police Chief Brian James said, although the trainings have been available before these gun-related incidents.
After two decades serving the University, former dean of the Eshelman School of Pharmacy Bob Blouin has retired.
As of this November, UNC's Undergraduate Senate passed a referendum creating the body's first finished constitution since the 2017 split between the undergraduate and graduate and professional student governments.
Over the past few months, students have experienced a semester that was far from normal. UNC had a fatal shooting in August, a second gun-related lockdown in September and has seen a number of protests on campus regarding the Israel-Gaza war since October.
Instead of readings and essays, students taking American Studies 398: Service Learning in America spend their time developing “Climatopia,” a board game that educates players about climate-enhanced natural disasters.
UNC Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz is the only candidate in the running for Michigan State University's presidency and is considering the job. Some prominent campus figures say they are not surprised.
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As of this month, UNC faculty and staff can access a digital artificial intelligence tool to summarize articles, generate coursework and accelerate their online research.
With the start of Thanksgiving break around the corner, many students are heading off campus for the holiday. From birthdays to skiing to spending time with family, University reporter Dallia Lindell spoke with students and asked them the question, “How are you spending Thanksgiving break this year?"
On Thursday morning, Starbucks' famous Red Cup Day, UNC students from the Carolina Young Democratic Socialists of America and other community members organized outside the Starbucks location on East Franklin Street with flyers and signs in solidarity with striking Starbucks workers across the nation.
At the UNC Board of Trustees meeting earlier this month, UNC Student Body President Chris Everett talked about the poor state of on-campus recreational facilities. He said in an interview with The Daily Tar Heel that he doesn’t think there’s a good understanding of how bad the conditions are.
On Friday afternoon, the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health hosted a panel to shed light on gun violence and its status as a public health issue. The panel consisted of three experts: Distinguished political science professor Frank Baumgartner, health management professor Ciara Zachary and faculty chair Beth Moracco. “At the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, we know about the terror that could strike a community when guns are the weapons of choice,” Leoneda Inge, WUNC host and the moderator of the panel, said. The event consisted of three presentations from each of its panelists. While the presentations maintained the central theme of gun violence as a public health issue, each presenter dived into different areas of the topic. Baumgartner, a Richard J. Richardson distinguished professor of political science at UNC, emphasized the importance of addressing and discussing gun violence. “The first numbers are shocking and kind of scary," Baumgartner said. "The United States is simply a very violent country. We have routine basis on the order of 20,000 homicides in our country every year." Moracco, an associate professor in the department of health behavior, said the lack of funding has only exacerbated the problem of gun violence. “Although gun violence is among the top 10 causes of death, [research to prevent it] was the second least funded of the top 30,” she said. In recent years, more pathways to research have been opened due to the replacement of the 1996 Dickey Amendment, which sought to prevent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention funding from being used to research the prevention of gun violence. “In 2019, the Dickey document was repealed, and Congress approved $25 million in appropriations for the [National Institutes of Health] and the CDC, specifically on gun violence research," Moracco said. "We're starting to see the results of that." Along with trying to educate the UNC community on gun violence as a whole, the panel hoped to shed light on the steps that UNC has taken since the gun-related campus lockdowns earlier this semester. Brent Wishart, senior director of facilities at the public health school, said that three main things were addressed following the lockdowns: the inability to lock classroom doors, the inability to cover some windows and the lack of clear evacuation plans. “We've hosted three active shooter training sessions," he said. "We've had one that was on Zoom and two in person at the School since the September lockdown."
The 14th UNC Model United Nations Conference— known as UNCMUNC XIV— is being held from Nov. 16 through Nov. 19 on campus. The event brings together more than 430 students from 35 colleges and universities across two countries and 17 states.
At the 31st annual Sonja Haynes Stone Memorial Lecture on Tuesday, Yale University professor Erica Edwards discussed her in-progress novel about untold stories in history — specifically those of Black women.Every fall, the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History invites a female lecturer to UNC's campus whose work, scholarship and service epitomizes the vision and spirit of Stone herself. This year's director of the Stone Center, LeRhonda Manigault-Bryant, said she chose Edwards because of her activism.
Applications for the Eve Carson Scholarship are now open, commemorating the program's 15th class of scholars.