Breaking:

UNC Police report two instances of peeping in Phillips Hall bathroom

| 5:15pm

Serving the students and the University community since 1893

Friday June 2nd

Faculty Retention

Michelle LaRoche, Peter Sherman, Marisa Porto and Shelvia Dancy each join the faculty of the Hussman School of Journalism and Media this semester.

'Exceptionally distinguished scholars': Meet four incoming Hussman professors

By Ira Wilder | Jan. 11

Four newcomers — Shelvia Dancy, Michelle LaRoche, Marisa Porto and Peter Sherman — bring a heap of interdisciplinary experience and enhance ongoing commitments to diversity within the Hussman School of Journalism and Media. The Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (ACEJMC) demoted the School to provisional accreditation in April 2022, citing the school to be out of compliance with its standards for diversity and inclusiveness, specifically in faculty retention and recruitment.

Read More »

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick on Jan. 13, 2021, at the Texas state Capitol, in Austin, Texas. Photo courtesy of Lynda M. Gonzalez/Dallas Morning News/TNS.

Column: Despite GOP attacks, tenure is absolutely essential to higher education

By Caitlyn Yaede | Apr. 26, 2022

Letter to the Editor: Been there, done that — I'm not a token faculty hire

Nov. 11, 2021

(From left) Frank Baumgartner, Jennifer Ho and Sharon Holland discuss their collaborative "Intersectionality: Race, Gender, Sexuality and Social Justice" course at the Gray Squirrel coffee shop in Carrboro in 2016. Photo courtesy of Kristen Chavez, UNC College of Arts & Sciences.

Faculty of color consider leaving, cite lack of opportunities and toxic environment

By Sasha Schroeder | Sep. 15, 2020

OJ McGhee is the Instructional Media Services Manager in the Gillings School of Public Health.

'We still have more to do': UNC minority faculty tops peer group at 11 percent

By Cain Twyman | Apr. 9, 2017

Omid Safi, a former UNC professor, is now the director of the Islamic Studies at Duke. One of the reasons he left was to have more freedom to give his political opinion.

Former UNC faculty, staff explain reasoning for taking offers at Duke

By Leah Moore | Mar. 9, 2017

Research instructional services librarian Angela Bardeen helps students find information about their research, narrow down paper topics, and select good sources at Davis Library.

Librarians make students shelf-sufficient

By Elizabeth Baker | Apr. 13, 2016

They had different reasons for wanting to be librarians.

Read More »

Didem Turkoglu (right), a teaching assistant and doctoral candidate in the sociology department, spoke at the rally Wednesday.

Rally supports non-tenured faculty

By Paige Hopkins | Feb. 25, 2015

Students, faculty and others rallied together on the steps of Wilson Library on Wednesday to call for a living wage, increased benefits and better working conditions for non-tenure-track professors.

Read More »

UNC tuition hikes to target faculty retention

By Sarah Brown | Feb. 10, 2015

Losing prized faculty members to other universities that make lucrative offers — it’s an unfortunately familiar, persistent problem for the UNC system.

Read More »

UNC-system faculty workloads data draws criticism

By Benji Schwartz | Aug. 24, 2014

A recent report from the Pope Center that accuses UNC-system schools of inflating faculty workloads has drawn criticism from system administrators.

Read More »

Professor Fred Clark retires from teaching

By Emily Ruffin | Jul. 21, 2014

Although Fred Clark’s 47 years of teaching at UNC have come to a close, he won’t be leaving just yet.

Read More »

Jeremy Petranka

Economics lecturer Jeremy Petranka leaves for Duke

By Jane Wester | Jul. 7, 2014

As of July 1, popular economics lecturer Jeremy Petranka has moved from UNC to Duke, but he won't be spending all his time in Durham.

Read More »

UNC Board of Governors will vote on out-of-state tuition rates

By Amy Tsai | Jun. 16, 2014

In a departure from precedent, last year the N.C. General Assembly bypassed the UNC-system Board of Governors and mandated steep out-of-state tuition increases for 2014-15.

Read More »

UNC sees rise in outside offers to expert faculty

By Jenny Surane | May. 19, 2014

He called it a Godfather offer — the one he couldn’t refuse.

Read More »