The Kenan-Flagler Business School has proposed a fee for business majors and minors, sparking conversation. Faculty believe the long-term benefits of the proposed fee will outweigh the business school's current financial losses. The fee would allow more students to be admitted, which could address current diversity-related issues.
UNC has a new attendance policy that balances no-questions-asked absences with keeping students accountable. The new policy is fresh and succinct, but offers a happy medium for students and faculty.
Friday’s Faculty Council meeting covered everything from the Arts Everywhere campaign to the passing of a resolution on University-approved absences. Here’s what you need to know:
The battle against hunger has one more fighter in the Employee Forum with its UNC 2017-18 Food For All campus food drive, benefiting Carolina Cupboard and the Food Bank of Central and Eastern NC.
If you were going to die tomorrow what would you talk about tonight? That’s the prompt given to the annual winner of the Chiron Award for their award lecture. The Chiron Award is given each year to a professor nominated by their students in recognition of their character and service to the undergraduate population. It was inspired by the last lecture of Randy Pausch, a professor at Carnegie-Mellon who had been diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer.
After 23 years of serving as a faculty member in the UNC Geography department, Altha Cravey has sued the University on the basis of gender discrimination.
Friday’s Faculty Council meeting covered everything from undercover cops to curriculum changes. Here’s what you need to know:
Andrew Reynolds, UNC professor and founder of the UNC LGBTQ Representation and Rights Research Initiative, has been short-listed for the UN position of Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity. Reynolds also has an upcoming book, The Children of Harvey Milk: How LGBTQ Politicians Changed the World (Oxford University Press). Staff writer Jessica Snouwaert interviewed Reynolds about the importance the UN position for LQBTQ rights and representation and the motivations behind his upcoming book.
With a potential overhaul of UNC's General Education curriculum looming, debate concerning outlined changes has sparked over backlash from faculty members.
UNC’s Retired Faculty Association offers up answers to former university professors who are retired but still looking to stay professionally active. UNC's RFA aims to offer a chance for professors to extend their impact on the University.
UNC's academic scandal recently came to a close, but its effects are ongoing. In response to the academic irregularities that were brought to light in 2011, the University instituted several policy reforms. The reforms are described as "extensive steps in the long journey to bring a painful chapter in campus history to a proper conclusion."
As presumably all people are aware of from decorations, candy and costumes at every store, Halloween is less than a week away. Yes, Halloween, as in the annual holiday where everybody dresses up and gets a sugar-high without really knowing why.
Friday’s Faculty Council meeting tackled student and campus enrichment, UNC’s Campaign for Carolina and a resolution supporting permanent legal status for those under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. Here's what you need to know:
The Faculty Executive Committee held their first meeting of the month on Monday. Discussion topics ranged from the undergraduate curriculum to the Silent Sam controversy to drafts of the new University budget.
The Faculty Council members met for the first time this school year Friday, tackling topics like Silent Sam and the Center for Civil Rights.
With a soft blue light shining over them, the UNC Faculty Jazz Trio played some of the genre’s greatest hits, receiving a standing ovation from the crowd last Thursday night.
Silent Sam dominated the conversation at the Faculty Executive Committee Meeting Monday afternoon, with some members calling on Chancellor Carol Folt to make a stronger statement and condemn the University’s controversial past.
The UNC-Chapel Hill Faculty Executive Committee asked the UNC Board of Governors to vote against closing the Center for Civil Rights. The committee passed a resolution Thursday saying the proposed policy "makes it harder for campuses within the system to pursue their mission."
The Folger Shakespeare Library chose UNC English professor Jessica Wolfe as one of seven long-term fellows for the 2017-18 year. The fellowship program will give her the unique opportunity to work on a special year-long project in Washington, D.C.
Chemistry professor Joe DeSimone is currently on leave from UNC to act as CEO at the company he co-founded, Carbon. Carbon uses Continuous Liquid Interface Production technology that DeSimone helped create to improve 3-D printing.
