Often the pressure put on undergraduate students to navigate academia can be influenced by the interactions between the student and the teacher — and student evaluations, which fill students' inboxes at the end of the semester, can help. Many students at UNC encounter course sections taught by a teaching assistant instead of a professor.
Matthew Andrews is a UNC sports historian who studies the links between athletics and American culture and history. He earned his doctorate from Chapel Hill in 2009 and currently serves as an advisor and lecturer for the Department of History.
Dr. Kim Janssen doesn’t do scary movies. She hates watching bad things happen and can’t stand to see someone suffer.
Only two faculty members attended the Faculty Athletics Committee’s listening session Wednesday, but the committee still led a discussion about the potential impact of student-athletes refusing to play as a form of protest.
The UNC-system Board of Governors gathered at 2 p.m. today for a previously unscheduled meeting. For 45 minutes, the board discussed salary increases for UNC faculty and staff as well as a request from two N.C. legislators for the records from the board’s emergency meeting on Oct. 30.
After 15 years of fiction-writing dreams, Betsy Sleath finally published her first book, “Pelican Island Pharmacy.”
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The Hudleys are a couple who fit together like pieces in a puzzle, or if you’re a geologist, plates of the Earth’s crust.
“She hasn’t had the chance to come on campus, but I’ve already begun to have conversations with her about our university, what we do, who we are, and she starts in March,” Folt said. “We have lots of time to really develop an understanding for her about what our special aspirations are.”
When Aziz Sancar’s wife woke him up at 5 a.m. on Oct. 7, he feared something terrible had happened to one of his family members in Turkey.
What is the solution when you add one mathematician and one statistician together? Greenham.
The computer science department at UNC is using one of the largest classrooms on campus, but students still complain they can’t get into classes they need.
When geography professor Altha Cravey heard the University is looking for two full-time “orientation/layoff coordinators,” she was shocked.
Aziz Sancar, a UNC biochemistry and biophysics professor and researcher, earned the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday morning.
For O.J. McGhee, hearing that there was still room for the University to grow diversity-wise rang especially true.
When Danielle Citron first shared her ideas about regulating online cyberbullying and harassment years ago, she was told she was going to break the internet.
When information about an academic scandal lasting nearly two decades started surfacing in 2010, the University began making changes. One reform was new, specific requirements for course syllabuses.
The Faculty Executive Committee wants the University to ensure the wishes of UNC Student Stores’ employees are honored if the privatization moves forward.
Friday’s Faculty Council meeting ended with applause for the unanimous approval of a resolution supporting academic freedom and English professor Neel Ahuja, whose “Literature of 9/11” first-year seminar was criticized by conservatives earlier in September.
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