Dan Gerlach, interim Chancellor of East Carolina University, has been placed on administrative leave in light of reports that he acted inappropriately in a Greenville-area bar last week.
The Chancellor Search Committee met for the first time on Thursday to kick off the search for a new chancellor. The process is not only complex, but also confidential. Chairperson Richard Stevens said committee members should not even discuss candidates with their families. The timeline is projected to take four months, though the process could take longer.
![Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Robert Blouin discusses various changes to "digitial education" at UNC-Chapel Hill. Blouin placed a moratorium on third-party OPMs "mainly because [Blouin] felt that [UNC] needed to adopt a campus philosphy and a campus strategy towards digital residential and non residential education," Blouin said.](https://snworksceo.imgix.net/dth/083489dc-b8b7-47a7-acc8-02e5efd05195.sized-1000x1000.jpg?w=800)
A new data science initiative, survey on campus free speech and programs to support public debate were on the agenda for the most recent Faculty Executive Committee meeting.
Ives oversaw several departments, including Student Stores and transportation and parking.
By LDOC of last year, a handful of UNC administrators left the University, including one of the most important figures on and off campus: the chancellor. Former Chancellor Carol Folt left in January, and since then, interim leaders have filled the positions left behind in the wake of the administrative fallout. As the school year begins, the search for a permanent replacement for chancellor will also start, and students, faculty and graduates make up the group to recommend candidates to the Board of Trustees. From there, a series of approvals through the University president and Board of Governors will culminate in a new chancellor. Kevin Guskiewicz, who has served as interim chancellor since Folt's resignation, said he is interested in being considered as a candidate for the next chancellor. Though the search process has not officially begun, Board of Trustees Chairperson Richard Stevens said he hopes Guskiewicz officially applies to be the permanent chancellor when the time comes.
On the interim chancellor's agenda are new initiatives for discussing the politics of a university, experiential education and collaboration with the town of Chapel Hill.
Marshall is a partner at a Raleigh law firm and outside general counsel to the North Carolina Association of Broadcasters.
When Winston Crisp resigned a few months after the toppling of Silent Sam, Christi Hurt was elevated in the student affairs department to fill the role of vice chancellor. Now, following her departure and amid the search for a permanent replacement, student affairs veteran Jonathan Sauls will become the vice chancellor for student affairs.
The idealistic projects are disconnected from UNC's major fundraising effort, so currently there's no money allocated for most of the proposals in the Master Plan.
Suzanne Barbour, former program director at the National Science Foundation, has been the Graduate School dean at the University of Georgia for three years. In September she's coming to UNC.
Conceived in 1908, completed in 1913, then torn down in 2018, Silent Sam was a lightning rod symbol on UNC's campus for over 100 years. Even now, as the one-year anniversary of its toppling approaches and the statue remains hidden in storage, Silent Sam continues to spark conversations on race and history.
Members of the campus safety commission say there's a "crisis of trust" at UNC between law enforcement and the community. Thomas Younce has a wide background in many realms of policing, and experience as an Air Force captain.
Carolina Performing Arts is the brain-child of Emil Kang, an influential professor in the music department who worked in the chancellor's cabinet to elevate UNC's status in the art world. He accepted a position at a N.Y art foundation and will leave the University in September.
After a Board of Governors member interfered with a chancellor search at Western Carolina University by independently contracting a firm to look into a finalist's background, the BOG reformed the guidelines of the process. Multiple third-party search firms will be involved, as well as deep background checks. UNC will foot the bill for most of it. UNC system president Bill Roper came to a Board of Trustees meeting to brief the board on the revamped selection process, which will get underway with the selection of a diverse search committee. The search committee will work with a firm contracted to find suitable candidates, but the firms' business model leads to an emphasis on confidentiality, keeping the public out of the process. A University of Florida professor explains how external firms have taken power away from students and community members by conducting interviews by airports to keep chancellor candidates' identities a secret.
The University has seen a large turnover in its administration over the past year. Here's a recap of who has left the University since the beginning of last school year.
Although the new rule will remove ambiguity from the AP policies, each university’s board of trustees will have the option to grant exceptions to individual course requirements.
In the wake of the former Police Chief Jeff McCracken begins a new process to hire for the position — one that has been at the brunt of much controversy and finger pointing.
Savannah Putnam, former student body president, took heed of the student government body during a tumultuous year filled with politics, Silent Sam and mental health concerns.
Tasked with improving relations between the community and the police, the campus safety commission is a new group made up of faculty, staff and students. They met this week to go over recent incidents on campus and game-plan ways to increase student trust in the police.
These three Tar Heel alumni are preparing to join the Board of Trustees, the University's governing body.
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