The University has been using Social Sentinel, an AI-based service, since 2016 to identify threatening or concerning public social media posts. The contract will end in October. Documents show that UNC used Social Sentinel to monitor campus protests through geofencing and pulled data from public posts on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Youtube and Reddit.
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On Friday, the University reached an agreement with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones to resolve legal matters related to her application for a tenured position in the Hussman School of Journalism and Media. The settlement required three key provisions for UNC: an inclusive search process, mental health counseling and reserved funds in the provost's office, according to a statement by the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
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Greg Copenhaver, a UNC faculty member since 2001, was promoted to director of the Institute for Convergent Science, which focuses on problem-solving in science.
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Dr. Janet Guthmiller was named the dean of the Adams School of Dentistry on Wednesday, according to a campus-wide email from the University. She will start her role on Oct. 15 and will hold the Claude A. Adams Distinguished Professorship.
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"Despite immediate, and understandable, outrage at the profoundly irresponsible administration that allowed this to happen, we shouldn’t be surprised that the program’s priorities are so maligned. It’s nothing that the journalism school – and UNC as a whole – hasn’t demonstrated to us before."
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Effective July 1, UNC classics professor Patricia Rosenmeyer will be the director of the Carolina Center for Jewish studies.
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There are significant racial and gender-based inequities within faculty salaries at the University, recent research shows. The research was based on data from previous studies and was led by Misha Becker, a UNC professor and chairperson of the linguistics department. She presented the work at recent Faculty Council and Faculty Executive Committee meetings. “You have to realize that the situation is bad when a faculty committee has to point this out in a public space,” Deb Aikat, journalism associate professor, said. “I mean this is terrible.”
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Recently released records show that the scope of the University's inquiry into the emails of journalism school faculty and staff may have been larger than previously thought. Journalism school associate professor Ryan Thornburg calculated that the inquiry might have targeted up to 22 people — and the records show that UNC officials requested access to emails and hard-drive backups. “It indicates that this was not just a performance for donors," Thornburg said. “It indicates that there was some real effort that was put into going deeper after the surface was scratched. Somebody said, ‘That’s not enough.’”
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Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Engagement Bettina Shuford was recognized by "Diverse: Issues In Higher Education" for its Women's History month issue. Shuford's work at UNC centers on diversity, equity and inclusion, identity development of students of color and retention of students of color.
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This Carolina Latinx Faculty Council held its first official meeting on April 8. Created within the Carolina Latinx Center, the council consists of faculty from a wide array of disciplines who share the goal of bringing awareness and fellowship to the Latinx community at the University.
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At their April 4 meeting, Faculty Executive Committee members continued their conversation on faculty salary inequities, and also spoke about the University's inquiry into journalism faculty emails regarding the $25 million Hussman school donor agreement.
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“Minorities in faculty and staff positions on our campus have significantly become underrepresented in specific fields and discussion, in part due to the problem of salary equity.”
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At Monday's Faculty Executive Committee meeting, School of Nursing clinical professor Rumay Alexander said some faculty members have expressed concerns about recent comments made by Provost Chris Clemens regarding the "Tarred Healing" photo story.
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LaSaundra Booth, a lecturer of music education at UNC, began playing the cello in the fourth grade and fell in love with it. She has since performed in a variety of symphonies and orchestras, and founded the Wake Forest Community Youth Orchestra, a nonprofit organization that provides instruments and musical training to over 350 children across three counties. “If there’s one word I’m taking into 2022, it’s 'empower,'" Booth said of her work. "I want to empower the next generation of teacher leaders.”
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The interim chairperson for UNC's Department of Communication, Renée Alexander Craft said she is interested in stories of how Black communities create their own system to share their history and mechanisms of self-care, motivation and empowerment.
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