"Tenure is absolutely essential to higher education, not only to protect professors but to ensure classrooms that foster productive debates, and are free from external censorship. It’s pivotal for students, professors and their research and should not be abridged by attempts to control curriculum."
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"I’ve been asked repeatedly if the UNC communications department hired me as a token after they received flack over their abysmally low number of minority faculty. Sounds like it."
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UNC faculty said they have considered leaving the University for peer institutions due to a lack of leadership opportunities and a toxic environment for faculty who are people of color. “The work that we do is not valued as much as work that other faculty do,” Jennifer Ho said. Jennifer Ho was the associate director of the UNC Institute for the Arts and Humanities — until she left in June 2019. “A lot of us were going to leave at a certain point because one, we couldn't get leadership positions, and two, who would want to stay in this climate?” Sharon Holland, chairperson of the Department of American Studies and Townsend Ludington distinguished professor, said.
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Though UNC ranks among the highest of its peer institutions in terms of diversity, many still see room for improvement in the percentage of faculty of color, female faculty and LGBTQ faculty.
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In the 2015-16 school year, at least 11 faculty members left UNC and five offers from Duke University were made to faculty, Executive Vice Provost Ron Strauss said.
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They had different reasons for wanting to be librarians.
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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.
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Losing prized faculty members to other universities that make lucrative offers — it’s an unfortunately familiar, persistent problem for the UNC system.
Read More »A recent report from the Pope Center that accuses UNC-system schools of inflating faculty workloads has drawn criticism from system administrators.
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Although Fred Clark’s 47 years of teaching at UNC have come to a close, he won’t be leaving just yet.
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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 »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.
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He called it a Godfather offer — the one he couldn’t refuse.
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