During their meeting on Friday, the UNC Board of Trustees reviewed committee reports and addressed campus safety issues. The BOT also discussed bylaw revisions and heard reports from trustees and the student body president concerning ongoing committee programs.
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UNC announced updated COVID-19 policies for the fall 2022 semester in a campus-wide email Friday. The University will not have any testing requirements for asymptomatic individuals on campus and will no longer provide voluntary asymptomatic testing. Students who test positive for COVID and are living in residence halls can isolate at home or in their residence hall room. The University is not requiring vaccine attestation or re-entry testing, but both are encouraged.
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In its May 19 meeting, he UNC Board of Trustees heard presentations on the importance of undergraduate research and discussed the new IDEAs in Action curriculum that will begin in the fall.
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On Thursday, the Chancellor’s Committee to Review History Commission Resolution met to discuss its report for Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz on building name removals, which it hopes to complete by July 1. The committee discussed the removal of the campus building names Bingham Hall, Grimes Residence Hall and Graham Residence Hall.
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Student Body President Lamar Richards made his final remarks as an ex-oficio member of the UNC Board of Trustees at the full board meeting on March 24. The BOT also heard a presentation from the North Carolina Policy Collaboratory and the newly-formed UNC Winston National Center on Technology Use, Brain and Psychological Development.
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The UNC Board of Trustees' Budget, Finance and Infrastructure Committee discussed the University's first all funds budget, which will be reviewed by the Board of Governors on May 25.
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On March 7, the Faculty Executive Committee met to discuss possible ways to improve communication with the Board of Trustees, what UNC could look like as mask-optional and continued discussions on UNC's relationship with race.
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Last Thursday, the Chancellor’s Committee to Review History Commission Resolution reviewed and revised a committee report to evaluate the criteria for renaming several buildings on campus.
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In its meeting Thursday, the BOT discussed UNC's COVID-19 response, the Campaign for Carolina fundraiser and the newly formed Audit, Compliance and Risk Management Committee.
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From the Board of Trustees to the Faculty Executive Committee and student governments, many groups have a stake in decision-making at UNC as part of the University's shared governance. Under this model, different bodies collaborate in processes with a goal to benefit campus constituencies. But recently, the integrity and effectiveness of that system has been called into question with controversies swarming around the University.
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In December, the University announced it would rename two buildings on campus, for Henry Owl, the first American Indian student and student of color to attend UNC, and Hortense McClinton, the first Black faculty member at UNC. These renamings are part of an ongoing effort to address campus buildings with names tied to white supremacists. But some community members say it's only a step in a larger process.
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"I’m dying to see a UNC-Duke basketball game in the Dean Dome, graduate next to my friends at convocation and sign my name atop the bell tower. But if the “Carolina Experience” comes at the cost of the health of the community — I don’t want it."
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The Board of Trustees hosted an emergency meeting Tuesday to redo its vote to approve incoming UNC Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Chris Clemens, following public speculation that its initial vote on Dec. 9 violated North Carolina Open Meetings Law.
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Chris Clemens, the UNC College of Arts & Sciences’ Jaroslav Folda Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy, will be the next provost and executive vice chancellor effective Feb. 1, the University announced Thursday.
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A look back at UNC Board of Governors and UNC Board of Trustees decisions, discussions and policies in 2021.
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