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Twenty years down the road, what do you think people will remember more, the academic-athletic scandal, or the saga of Silent Sam? We all have ample time to think it over in the coming months.
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Twenty years down the road, what do you think people will remember more, the academic-athletic scandal, or the saga of Silent Sam? We all have ample time to think it over in the coming months.
According to a motion filed in February by the petitioner in Semelka v. The University of North Carolina, a case arising from the discharge of a tenured UNC radiologist: “Judge (R. Allen) Baddour made critical findings in favor of Defendant (UNC) in the face of contradictory evidence,” in a past case.
Public records show the UNC-grad judge involved in the Silent Sam settlement has a deep history with his alma mater. Multiple powerful University figures, like a former chancellor and former football coach, have donated money to a political committee set up to keep the judge, R. Allen Baddour, in office.
“Accept this monument and may it stand forever as a perpetual memorial to those sons of the University who suffered and sacrificed so much at the call of duty.”
Last week, a Board of Governors committee met via conference call in a closed-door meeting. Hours later, a short press release was sent out from the chancellor’s office that finally ended Silent Sam's 15 month limbo.
Interim Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz and other University leaders gathered at the Carolina Inn this week for a meeting of the Board of Trustees, using the event as an opportunity to address the fallout from the recently-released U.S. Department of Education review that showed UNC violated campus safety laws from 2009 to 2016.
Dan Gerlach was the interim Chancellor of East Carolina University until he resigned on Saturday.
Daily Tar Heel senior writer Preston Lennon traveled alongside the bus tour and met the faculty at various stops of the three routes. The Daily Tar Heel was not permitted to travel inside the bus.
The Board of Governors voted Randy Ramsey the next chairperson of the Board in an emergency conference call Tuesday morning.
When Harry Smith’s resignation takes effect in October, multiple positions critical to the functioning of UNC and N.C. higher education will be staffed by leaders whose predecessors dealt with the aftermath of Silent Sam’s toppling last fall.
On the heels of a week in which a series of incidents around Chapel Hill caused fear and unrest for students, interim Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz turned to a panel of faculty advisors for suggestions on how to optimize UNC’s Alert Carolina System.
Correction: a previous version of this article misstated Elsevier's connection to Norway. After the country cancelled subscriptions with Elsevier, a new two year pilot program was established to make articles by Norwegian authors free to read in Elsevier's journals. The Daily Tar Heel apologizes for this error.
UNC’s new Chief of Police David Perry was introduced to the Campus Safety Commission at its meeting on Wednesday, his second day officially on the job.
Interim Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz sat down with a panel of faculty advisors Wednesday afternoon, where they brainstormed ways to improve faculty morale and other issues.
Kevin Guskiewicz was rapidly promoted from dean to interim chancellor after Chancellor Carol Folt's resignation was accelerated by the Board of Governors in January. Daily Tar Heel reporter Preston Lennon interviewed Guskiewicz as the one year anniversary of Silent Sam's toppling neared, covering topics like the University's evolution since last fall, donation strategies, the Master Plan and UNC's path forward.
Christi Hurt, the interim vice chancellor for Student Affairs, will leave her post on Aug. 16 to join a firm that advises universities on campus safety services, according to a press release from the University. She will also complete her doctorate at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.
The University sent out a notice on Thursday that a UNC student died in May.
In May, UNC’s Board of Trustees ratified a game plan to invigorate campus and set the stage for future physical developments.
Suzanne Barbour was selected to be the next dean of the UNC Graduate School. She will begin on Sept. 3, 2019, according to a press release from Provost Bob Blouin.
In a digital landscape ripe with questions about privacy, regulations for social media platforms and uncertainty about how consumer data is being used, UNC established the Center for Information, Technology and Public Life — hoping to gather empirical data on some of the 21st century’s underlying phenomena.