Carolina’s mid-year commencement ceremony will be held on Sunday, December 14th at 2:00 p.m. at the Dean E. Smith Center.  There are fewer graduates in December than in May, and the number of associated family and friends present is correspondingly … Read more

The nominations period is now open for candidates to be selected as UNC-Chapel Hill’s nominee to the UNC system for consideration for the 2015 O. Max Gardner Award, given by the UNC Board of Governors to “that member of the … Read more

The Faculty Council will meet from 3:00 to 5:00 pm on Friday, November 21, 2014 in the Pleasants Family Room at Wilson Library.  The agenda is now online here, and all faculty members are welcome to attend.

Tweets with hashtag #UNCFAC from the second Faculty Athletics Committee listening session, November 11, 2014, held in Stone Center on the UNC-CH campus.

Below, see the complete video and our Storify of tweets from the Faculty Athletics Committee’s November 5 listening session.  Thanks to our colleagues in News Services for the assistance with the video.  A second listening session will be held on … 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

On Thursday, November 6, at 7 p.m., Emmy and Peabody award-winning journalist William Rhoden will deliver the Fall 2014 Diaspora Lecture at the Stone Center. William C. Rhoden is recognized as one of the most influential thought leaders in the … Read more