FACULTY

9/18/2019 9:40pm

Unsustainable scholarship: How private companies control research in higher education

Academic research is a staple of university libraries. Faculty depend on it for their own research, and students need it for their studies. But because of private publishing companies, who play a confusing and controlling role in the process of research creation, UNC Libraries is sounding alarms about the system's flaws. The publishing companies make money by selling research journal access to university libraries in confidential deals. UNC Libraries said there's an imbalance in the process, because tax payers subsidize research authoring, then subsequently have to pay again for research access. Rebels against the publishing giants advocate for open access — publishing online for free without paywalls — and say that continuing to buy into publishers' demands will impair scientific progress.

9/18/2019 8:54pm

UNC's new data science initiative, which includes seven subcommittees on undergraduate curriculum, graduate curriculum, research, community engagement, finance and funding, infrastructure and student services, will focus on revising the University's data science curriculum.

New initiative explores redefining UNC's data science curriculum

By Will Forrest

UNC students, professors and researchers will come together to conduct a study that examines the feasibility of changing the University's data science curriculum.

9/9/2019 9:25pm

Faculty discussed issues that ranged from the Three Zeroes Initiative to the Program for Civic Virtue and Civil Discourse at Monday's Faculty Executive Meeting.

Faculty debate new program with undisclosed donors

By Ellie Heffernan

At the latest Faculty Executive Committee meeting, a new communication service, the Three Zeroes Initiative and the Program on Civic Virtue and Civil Discourse were on tap for discussion.

4/25/2019 11:02pm

Western Carolina University's new chancellor, Kelli R. Brown. Photo courtesy of UNC-system media relations.

Western Carolina University has a new chancellor

By Nathan Wesley

Kelli R. Brown will assume the position of the 12th chancellor of Western Carolina University in July. Brown was elected by the WCU Board of Governors on Thursday, bringing a legacy of success to the chancellor-less University

4/22/2019 8:54pm

Mark Porlides, a UNC graduate student in the department of history, and anti-silent sam activist, shows the faculty executive committee body cam footage of his  Dec 4, 2018 arrest while he was protesting Silent Sam at the committee's meeting on April 22, 2019. Porlides was showing the video in response to a memo written by history Professor Jay Smith regarding campus police conduct and student safety.

Faculty Executive Committee discusses police presence on campus, gender pay gap

By Jordyn Williams

The Faculty Executive Committee held a meeting on April 22 to discuss the gender pay gap at UNC and a petition signed by 101 UNC faculty members concerning campus police.

4/16/2019 10:18pm

(Left to right) Madeline Hunt, Ella Castelloe and Schuyler Moss stand in front of their research projects at the Women in Physics Research Symposium.

This research symposium encouraged women in physics to stay in physics

By Evelyn Gandy

The second annual Women in Physics Research Symposium featured interesting projects and speakers that can relate to the difficulties that young women face while earning their degree in physics.

School of Social Work holds ethics panel about immigration in the U.S.

By Casey Quam

Lecture organizers hope the attendees of the final Clinical Lecture Series hosted by the School of Social Work are able to learn how to better serve their clients and students.

4/15/2019 12:59am

Andrew Perrin discusses the new general education curriculum at the Apr. 12 Faculty Council Meeting.

Faculty Council discusses anti-Semitism, caps on scholarship funds, and UNC Police

By Cynthia Dong

At the University Faculty Council meeting on Friday, members said goodbye to Chairperson Leslie Parise, proposed a resolution to investigate police conduct in light of recent protests and discussed the cap on the scholarship budget for need-based aid.

4/12/2019 6:08pm

UNC names new dean of students and associate vice chancellor for student affairs

By Maeve Sheehey

Desirée Rieckenberg will assume the title of dean of students effective immediately, according to an email from Christi Hurt, interim vice chancellor for student affairs. Rieckenberg was formerly the senior associate dean of students and director of the office of the dean of students.

4/10/2019 8:34pm

UNC students participate in Carolina Khalsa’s Tie a Turban Day last year. This year’s event will be Friday in the Pit at 10:30 a.m. Photo courtesy of Kulpreet Singh.

Learn how to tie a turban on Friday

By Casey Quam

“The significance of the turban is that we can be recognized and help serve the communities that are in need of help."

4/10/2019 8:05pm

From left to right, Katie Lindner, Joanneke Elliott, Sara Elliott, Maura Kitchens, and Beth Mueller, all event organizers of Europe Week at UNC. Photo by Grant Peet.

Want to learn about Europe? You’re in luck

By Lauren Westbrook

"Students, community members, teachers, high school students, faculty, staff, local government and all sorts of society organization ... foster the dialogue on Europe." The Center for European Studies is hosting Europe Week at Carolina, a week dedicated to appreciating and celebrating European culture, from April 6 to 12.

4/10/2019 12:11am

Members of the Faculty Executive Committee discuss at Monday's meeting.

Here's what you missed at Monday's Faculty Executive Committee meeting

By Evely Forte

The University’s Faculty Executive Committee gathered on Monday to discuss the future of Silent Sam and the election of a new faculty chairperson.

4/9/2019 10:43pm

The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History on Thursday, Jan. 17. Artist Charles Williams will have a new exhibit in the center this spring.

Cherríe Moraga asks UNC, 'If We Forget Ourselves, Who Will Be Left to Remember Us?'

By Arabella Saunders

Chicana writer Cherríe Moraga’s “Native Country of the Heart: If We Forget Ourselves, Who Will Be Left to Remember Us?” paints a portrait of her mother's life.

4/3/2019 9:26pm

Employee Forum delegates Jeff McQueen and Tiffany Carver look on as Director of Transportation and Parking Cheryl Stout speaks about the Weeknight Parking Plan. The plan, set to begin in Fall of 2019, require a permit for parking on campus after 5 p.m. on weeknights. Photo by Edward Trentzsch.

What the Employee Forum had to say about ConnectCarolina, Weeknight Parking Program

By Edward Trentzsch

Wednesday's Employee Forum meeting focused on the ConnectCarolina makeover, the Weeknight Parking Program and the Northside Neighborhood Initiative.

4/3/2019 12:09am

UNC has recently made Hanesbrands Inc. the main lincensee for apparel.

UNC announces a new licensing partnership with Hanesbrands Inc.

By Noah Dolgoff

Hanesbrands Inc. is the number one seller of licensed college gear.

4/2/2019 11:52pm

William Andrews presents a lecture on Tuesday, April 2, 2019 to promote and discuss his newest publication.

The untold narrative: UNC professor lectured on class structures during slave era

By Janet Haver

UNC professor William Andrews presented a lecture on Tuesday, April 2 to promote his newest publication which discusses the effects of social mobility among slaves in the American South.

4/1/2019 8:38pm

Photo contributed by the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies.

Jonathan Hess’ memory will be honored in conference held by GSLL department

By Jordyn Williams

Join the department for the three-day conference from April 13 to 15.

4/1/2019 8:31pm

Spencer Tackett, sophomore English major, in front of Wilson Library.

'Everyone loses when bright people play small': how impostor syndrome affects achievement

By Suzanne Blake

Many students at UNC describe feeling out of place, or as though they aren't smart enough to compete at Carolina. This is called imposter syndrome, and it's a lot more damaging than you may realize.

4/1/2019 7:45pm

Interim Chancellor Kevin M. Guskiewicz meets with Buck Goldstein at South Building on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. March 11, 2019.

(Jon Gardiner/UNC-Chapel Hill)

Interim Chancellor Guskiewicz goes back to the classroom

By Evely Forte

Guskiewicz and Professor Buck Goldstein will be holding a once-a-week course to mentor Ph.D. students who are planning to move into academia following graduation.

3/31/2019 10:09pm

Secretary of the Faculty Vin Steponaitis, Faculty Chair Leslie Parise and Chair of the Committee Anne Klinefelter attend the meeting of the Faculty Council and the General Faculty in Genome Sciences Building on Friday, March 8, 2019. Steponaitis and Klinefelter discussed resolutions at the meeting which sought to change the composition of fixed term faculty, the composition and charge of the Administrative Board of the Library and the procedure for passing resolutions of the General Faculty.

Leslie Parise, Chairperson of the Faculty Committee, resigns