The University is increasingly relying on and hiring fixed-term rather than tenure-track faculty — particularly in health affairs.

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.

The University’s faculty is tired of watching Chancellor Holden Thorp take punches.

Coloring is a popular pastime among children, from filling in pictures of zoo animals to Disney princesses.

Administrators have said they want to do everything they can to prevent another academic scandal.

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.
This year’s proposed athletic budget expects $75.4 million in revenue and calls for $75.2 million in spending, with both categories climbing by $2.7 million from last year.

Professors hoping to add the word “distinguished” before their title at UNC might have to wait a while.
The N.C. General Assembly created the Distinguished Professors Endowment Trust Fund in 1985, promising to give $1 for every $2 privately donated towards a professorship.

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.

When the end result of a two-year-long NCAA investigation came Monday, some faculty members were relieved. But that feeling was diminished by the severity of the punishments.

The letter seemed like all the others at first — nothing that merited anything beyond a quick glance. Nothing but another reference request or cattle call to join an administrative search.

After purchasing a plagiarism detection software last week, administrators are now turning their attention to the details of this semester’s pilot program.

For administrators and trustees, the decision to propose increasing tuition by 15.6 percent for in-state students came down to the financial needs of faculty, whose salaries have been frozen for three years.

Educating faculty members about the nuances of the student-run honor system is the first major goal to emerge from the faculty honor system advisory committee. The newly formed committee met for the first time Friday to discuss how the members could best aid the honor system and increase faculty involvement.