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

The faculty Open Access Task Force, appointed by the Chair of the Faculty in early 2014 to develop a proposal for a university policy on open access for faculty scholarly research publications, has completed its work.  Its report and a … Read more

Legislating on behalf of Faculty Council due to the need for prompt action, the Faculty Executive Committee on Monday, February 23, 2015 adopted the following resolution: Resolution 2015-7: On Oversight Authority of Centers and Institutes With reference to the recent … Read more

Even experienced and long-serving faculty members are sometimes surprised to find campus policies and resources they weren’t aware of.  One that came to our attention this week is the Registrar’s University Policy Memorandums page.  This page contains documents that codify … Read more