UNC system president Tom Ross will come to the regular Faculty Council meeting this Friday, March 8, 2013 (3:00-5:00 pm, Stone Center) to discuss the recently adopted UNC system strategic plan.  Additionally, Faculty Council will consider resolutions to implement campuswide … Read more

The UNC Board of Governors recently approved the strategic plan, Our Time, Our Future, to guide the university system for the next five years.  Last Friday (February 22), the UNC Faculty Assembly (which includes representatives from all UNC system campuses) … Read more

The faculty’s Committee on Honorary Degrees and Special Awards invites nominations for candidates for the 2013 Thomas Jefferson Award.   This award, established in 1961, is given annually to “that member of the academic community who through personal influence and performance … Read more

We thought it might be useful to create a sort of final compendium of key documents related to the recently approved UNC strategic plan, Our Time Our Future: The UNC Compact with North Carolina, Strategic Directions 2013-2018 , approved by the … Read more

In response to Governor Pat McCrory’s remarks in a recent radio interview with Bill Bennett, the Faculty Executive Committee has written to the governor to underscore the value of the liberal arts and to invite the governor to come to … Read more

The final draft of the UNC strategic plan is now online and presently before the Board of Governors.   Read it here.

Faculty Council will meet this Friday, February 8, 2013 from 3:00 to 5:00 pm in the Hitchcock Multipurpose Room of the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History.  The agenda and all related documents are now online here.  … Read more

At its regular meeting on Monday, January 28, 2013, the Faculty Executive Committee (meeting jointly with the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee and members of the UNC Faculty Assembly delegation) passed two resolutions endorsing the Faculty Assembly’s responses to the draft UNC … Read more

The message below was sent to all UNC faculty on January 23: We write to invite you to become involved as faculty leaders in campuswide faculty governance.  As you know, the past several years have been trying times for the … Read more

Chair of the Faculty Jan Boxill and the members of the UNC-Chapel Hill Faculty Assembly delegation met with the entire UNC system Faculty Assembly on Friday, January 18 to consider the first full draft of the new UNC system strategic … Read more