TO THE EDITOR:
I write to add faculty voices to those taking note of this week’s celebration of International Housekeepers Week.
Many might think that UNC’s faculty and housekeepers have little in common.
Certainly with many housekeepers working a night shift and faculty on campus during the day, our paths rarely cross.
To many faculty members, housekeepers’ work may seem almost invisible.
But one of my priorities as chairwoman of the faculty is to draw attention to how all members of our campus community depend upon one another.
That idea of interdependence certainly describes the relationship between housekeepers and faculty.
The beautiful, clean, safe and pleasant physical environment that we faculty almost take for granted every day does not happen magically.
Rather, a sometimes invisible army of housekeepers refreshes our offices, classrooms, labs, meeting rooms and libraries nearly every day, allowing research, teaching and learning to proceed without us having to give cleanliness a second thought.
