In 2014, the Office of Faculty Governance and the Faculty Welfare Committee drafted a new electronic version of the UNC-Chapel Hill Faculty Handbook, which was last issued in print in in 1994. The handbook does not repeat policy information given elsewhere, … Read more

Thanks to the efforts of faculty and staff at the Eshelman School of Pharmacy, Faculty Council will move its meetings for the Fall 2015 semester to Pharmacy’s Kerr Hall, which is south of the McCauley St./South Road intersection with S. Columbia St., sort … Read more

The September 28th deadline is approaching for nominations for the university’s 2016 Distinguished Alumnus and Alumna Awards. Nominees for these awards are selected by the faculty’s elected Committee on Honorary Degrees and Special Awards, and they will be presented at the … Read more

Faculty Chair Bruce Cairns published the following letter to the editor in the Daily Tar Heel on September 3, 2015: TO THE EDITOR: As a 19-year veteran of the U.S. Navy and Chair of the Faculty, and in reference to … Read more

The letter below was sent to deans for the attention of all faculty on September 1, 2015   We write on behalf of your elected faculty Committee on Honorary Degrees and Special Awards to ask you to help us identify … Read more

Bruce Cairns, who is entering his second year as chair of the Faculty Council, and Charles Streeter, who is starting his third year as chair of the Employee Forum, represent different constituents, but they serve the same University. They are … Read more

Thanks to the assistance of our colleagues at UNC News Services, we now have a professionally produced full video of the October 31, 2014 Faculty Council meeting available online.  As noted on the meeting agenda, the discussion focused on the … Read more

Statement from the Faculty Athletics Committee, November 4, 2014 The Faculty Athletics Committee is sponsoring two open forum listening sessions open to faculty and staff to aid in our ongoing work plan.  Your thoughts and suggestions will assist with agenda … Read more

As a quick window into online and in-room discussions of the Wainstein report at the October 31, 2014 Faculty Council meeting, we have created a “Storify,” embedded below, which includes tweets from recent days referencing either our hashtag, #FacCouncil, or … Read more

This year’s Center for Faculty Excellence series on Faculty Leadership: Core Skills and Concepts continues in November and December with workshops on supervising in an academic setting, managing challenging interactions, and negotiation skills for academic leaders.  A flyer for the … Read more