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(11/13/09 5:58am)
A controversial policy governing salaries and paid leave for administrators took a step forward Thursday after months of stalls.The personnel and tenure committee of the UNC-system Board of Governors passed the “retreat rights” policy for chancellors and presidents, which means the full board can discuss it at its next meeting in January.The policy dictates leave time and pay for chancellors and presidents when they resign from their administrative positions and opt to return to their university’s faculty.Committee Chairwoman Gladys Robinson said it was imperative that the policy pass the committee Thursday because it is likely that N.C. State University and UNC-Pembroke will be hiring new chancellors in the next year, and the policy needs to be in place before then.Board members agreed to pass the policy with UNC-system President Erskine Bowles’ recommended changes: cutting paid leave time from one year to six months and awarding a salary comparable to faculty salary, rather than 60 percent of their administrative salary.Committee members also added a provision that would allow Bowles to negotiate a payback of salary if the administrator goes on paid leave then chooses not to return to a faculty position at the university.New programs approvedThe educational planning, policies and programs committee approved a set of programs at several campuses knowing that they might not have funds to implement them. The board approved bachelor’s degree programs in intelligence studies at Fayetteville State University, genetics at N.C. State University and entrepreneurship at UNC-Greensboro — if the funds are there to support them.Bowles said the best option was to approve the programs contingent on the availability of funds, given the economic climate.“The days of absolutely being sure we’re gonna have the enrollment money are over,” Bowles said. “There is a dollar amount attached to each one of them.”The programs comply with the UNC Tomorrow initiative, which focuses on creating programs that address the demands of the state. The committee also approved a motion to begin planning doctoral programs in physical therapy at Western Carolina University and Winston-Salem State University. Elizabeth McDuffie, director of grants, training, and outreach for the UNC system, reported that the N.C. General Assembly has voted to repeal the Future Teachers of N.C. Scholarship Loan Program due to a lack of student interest.Two students at UNC-Chapel Hill were on the scholarship in 2008-09.The scholarship provides loans to students working to become math, science, special education, or English as a second language teachers.Contact the State & National Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu.
(11/13/09 5:28am)
A formal partnership between the UNC system and U.S. Army Special Operations Command made so much sense to both parties that it seemed silly to delay it.Only a year after Special Operations Command first approached the UNC system, the two institutions signed an agreement that established the partnership.“This is an event that I personally thought would take much longer to pass,” said Lt. Gen. John Mulholland Jr., commanding general of Special Operations Command,, who brought the idea to the UNC-system after observing a class at the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School on military logistics. “Our staff and leaders have slashed through things.”The two have worked together for years, but the system’s administration will now direct Special Operations Command to the campuses with the resources to help them the most.As the state with the fourth-largest military population, meeting the needs of the military means meeting the needs of the state — the mandate of UNC Tomorrow, UNC-system President Erskine Bowles said.The UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine and Special Operations Command partnership, which provides civilian training to combat medics, was continually held up by speakers as an example of the idea’s potential.“We have only scratched the surface of what is possible,” Bowles said.The partnership will come at no additional cost to central administration, and Special Operations Command will reimburse schools for expenditures on classes, programs and resources.A top priority is collaborating on language instruction. Through the command’s program, soldiers only learn basic comprehension, not the technical competence that comes with an academic course, Mulholland said.“Generals come and go, and chancellors and presidents and boards come and go,” said board Chairwoman Hannah Gage.“This process and relationship will continue. You have the stability so this can become larger.”Contact the State & National Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu.
(11/12/09 7:20am)
The UNC system and the U.S. Army will launch a new chapter in their already-extensive collaboration today.The two institutions will centralize the interaction between the military and the academic communities when UNC-system President Erskine Bowles and Lt. Gen. John Mulholland Jr., commanding general of the U.S. Army Special Operations Command, sign an agreement before today’s Board of Governors meeting.The top three priorities for collaboration are language instruction, particularly for in-demand Asian languages, research and programs that foster negotiation, communication and leadership skills.The command has collaborated with individual campuses for years, but it will now come first to the system’s central administration so administrators can point them to the campuses and programs that best meet their needs, said Kimrey Rhinehardt, UNC-system vice president for federal relations and the system’s point person on the partnership.“It’s my job to go out and say, ‘We’re really good at this discipline at this campus,’” Rhinehardt said. “It’s enabling them to have a better understanding of where our strength and expertise lie.” The command is likely to turn to UNC-Chapel Hill for research and language instruction, she said.One collaborative project already exists between the UNC School of Medicine in Chapel Hill and the command’s combat medic training program.“We bring to bear all the best that the army and special forces has to offer to teach combat medics,” said Sgt. 1st Class Eric Hendrix of the command’s public affairs.Meanwhile, combat medics benefit from the School of Medicine’s ability to provide civilian training and experience, Rhinehardt said.Plans are underway for the medical school to take on instructors from the command’s medic program to work alongside UNC doctors and to count battlefield experience for course credit to fast-track combat medics’ transition to civilian medicine, she said.General administration will back out after subpartnerships between schools and the command are cemented, Rhinehardt said.No new positions have been created. Rhinehardt will serve as the point person for the system, and Mulholland will be her counterpart. Schools and the command will be responsible for covering any costs that arise from collaborative projects.Retired Gen. James Lindsay first thought of the idea many years ago, but the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan pushed it to the backburner, Hendrix said.Mulholland, who assumed command in November 2008, put it back on the agenda and arranged meetings with Bowles and the Board of Governors.“Gen. Mulholland saw it as something that was of top importance. He didn’t want to wait anymore,” Hendrix said.“We have a home school now — a school that we can call USASOC’s home.”Contact the State & National Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu.
(08/19/08 4:00am)
When the 17 UNC-system campuses were asked to respond by May with their plans to complete the goal that system President Erskine Bowles gave them in December, some campus task forces didn't think it would be possible to complete that goal.