History on hold: University pauses the History Task Force work including Silent Sam
Four years ago it wasn’t Silent Sam in protestors’ crosshairs, it was Saunders Hall.
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Four years ago it wasn’t Silent Sam in protestors’ crosshairs, it was Saunders Hall.
CORRECTION: A prior version of this article incorrectly identified the number of faculty that has been supported by The Institute for the Arts and Humanities. The number is over 1000. The Daily Tar Heel apologizes for this error.
After being approved by the Board of Trustees, Angela Kashuba will become the next dean of the Eshelman School of Pharmacy, according to a press release from Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Robert Blouin.
Standing ovations were handed out in turn at Thursday’s Board of Trustees meeting, where nearly half the board held its final meeting in the Carolina Inn before being cycled out in July.
Different committees of the UNC Board of Trustees met Wednesday afternoon at The Carolina Inn to discuss a variety of topics, ranging from property acquisition to fundraising strategies.
Following the tear down of Silent Sam in August of 2018, former Chancellor Carol Folt spent a semester weaving through a complicated political process involving multiple actors at the University and state levels.
On the heels of a decision to indefinitely postpone the unveiling of a Silent Sam plan, the Board of Governors met this week, keeping the issue of the confederate monument entirely off the docket.
Update 4:50 p.m.: Folt said the University will reconsider off-campus options in the relocation of Silent Sam in a conference call with reporters.
Members of the Jewish community recently spoke out against Chancellor Folt and the Board of Trustee’s suggestion to house Silent Sam in Odum Village. Some have found it problematic that Chapel Hill Kehillah, a synagogue and religious school located on Mason Farm Road in Odum village, will be so close to Silent Sam.
From a webcam in his office, Thom Goolsby, a member of the UNC-system Board of Governors, chastised UNC administration in a three-minute video, calling their Silent Sam relocation proposal cowardly and illegal.
Maya Little, the embattled UNC Ph.D. student at the forefront of Silent Sam’s opposition, turned herself in at the Orange County Courthouse on Tuesday, on charges of inciting a riot and assault on an officer stemming from a protest Monday night.
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated the what the role of SFAS is in relation to the Student Fee Audit Committee. The SFAS hears presentations from the SFAC on student fees. The article has been updated with the correct information. The Daily Tar Heel apologizes for this error.
The Board of Trustees met this week, following an extension of the Nov. 15 Silent Sam deadline and the resignation announcement of UNC-System President Margaret Spellings.
In 2015, the UNC Board of Trustees rolled out a series of resolutions outlining their stance on contextualization. They were the documents used to facilitate the processes of changing Saunders Hall into Carolina Hall. In September, Trustee Chuck Duckett opened a University Affairs Committee meeting by reaffirming the prominent role that the resolutions will play in the BOT's handling of Silent Sam.
Updated at 7:59 p.m.: The Court has decided to sanction Maya Little with a written letter of warning and 18 hours of community service to be completed within three months.
Maya Little had her day in court last week for the charge of defacing Silent Sam, but she has yet to receive a verdict from the Graduate and Professional Honor Court, which met Thursday to begin the fact-finding process that will result in a verdict from the University on her actions.
Ever since a self-proclaimed Neo-Nazi drove his Dodge Challenger into a crowd of people protesting a 2017 Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, the presence of Confederate monuments on public property has come under scrutiny in the media and on UNC's campus.
After Chancellor Carol Folt finished her responsibilities at last week’s University Day proceedings, she sat in at the Faculty Council meeting, where nearly 100 professors gathered to voice opinions on a set of statements that would specify the faculty’s stance regarding the potential whereabouts of Silent Sam.
For every Carolina Covenant scholar the University enrolls, it also enrolls two North Carolinian students from a middle-income background. As part of its ongoing wide-scale fundraising campaign, UNC plans to implement a new scholarship program geared toward working households in North Carolina.
At Wednesday's Board of Trustee's meeting, members of the board revisited the 2015 policy that changed the name of a UNC building to Carolina Hall, reviewed the composition of UNC's incoming students and prepared for University Day.