We have several announcements regarding use of the Anne Queen Faculty Commons as we wind down the semester:

• First, faculty coffee hour will end on Tuesday, May 7th and will resume in the fall. We do not continue coffee through the summer.
• Second, the back doors of the Anne Queen Faculty Commons will be kept locked during the summer months for security reasons. The commons is still open to faculty, but we ask that you enter the Campus Y building through the front doors. Faculty will be given key card entry privileges to ensure access to the building.
• Finally, fire alarm testing will take place in the Campus Y building on Thursday, May 9th. We have not been given a specific time.

Thank you for continuing to use the Anne Queen Faculty Commons and for respecting our policies and procedures. Please take a look at the webpage if you have any questions about the room or if you wish to make a reservation.

Sincerely,

OFG Staff

We invite you to join us for the joyous events of Commencement Weekend 2013 on Saturday, May 11^th and Sunday, May 12^th.

Our students’ accomplishments are remarkable, and their friends and families value our roles as teachers, mentors and scholars. Commencement honors our collective commitment to learning and building a sense of community within our University. You’re invited to participate in both events wearing academic regalia, but you are welcome regardless.

The Doctoral Hooding ceremony will take place on Saturday, May 11, at 10 a.m. in the Dean Smith Center. During the ceremony, each graduate will be called to the stage to receive the doctoral hood from his or her advisor. The featured speaker is Dr. Dan Ariely, James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University.  Dr. Ariely received his master’s degree and doctorate in cognitive psychology from Carolina. His research has transformed our understanding of human decision-making.

Non-hooding faculty members who wish to march in the academic processional should arrive at the Smith Center (entrance D) no later than 9:30 a.m. and congregate in the Press Room on the lower level (take elevators or stairs down to the first floor). Marshals will direct you to the line-up site. Parking will be available in all the lots around the Smith Center. More information about the hooding ceremony is available here.

University Commencement will be held, rain or shine, on Sunday, May 12 at 9:30 a.m. in Kenan Stadium. If it rains during the ceremony, the ceremony may be shortened; in the event of dangerous severe weather, it will be cancelled. Faculty participating in the processional should park in the new Bell Tower deck and gather on the second floor of the Kenan Football Center at 9:00 a.m. From there, Faculty Marshal Valerie Ashby will lead the faculty processional.

This year’s Commencement speaker is Steve Case, co-founder of America Online and CEO of Revolution, an investment firm that has backed more than two dozen companies, including LivingSocial, Zipcar, AddThis, Everyday Health, FedBid and Echo360. He co-founded The Case Foundation with his wife Jean in 1997 to unite the principles of entrepreneurship, innovation and technology to identify, test, prove and scale ideas and models designed to create exponential impact in solving social challenges.

The ceremony will honor our graduating students and the following outstanding recipients of honorary degrees: Steve Case; Bernard Flatow, Davie Award Winner and cultural ambassador to Latin America; Joel Fleishman, UNC alumnus, scholar and philanthropist; Freeman Hrabowski, President of University of Maryland, Baltimore County; and Mary Pope Osborne, UNC alumna and author of many children’s books, including The Magic Treehouse series.

Many of you have attended Commencement in the past, and we welcome you again. For those who have yet to participate in this venerable academic tradition, please join us. We look forward to seeing you there.

More information about Commencement is available at http://commencement.unc.edu/.

Sincerely yours,

Jan Boxill, Chair of the Faculty

Valerie Ashby, Faculty Marshal

The time slot is the usual Faculty Council time:  3:00 – 5:00 pm, but we are in a different location:  Nelson Mandela Auditorium at the FedEx Global Education Center.

The agenda and all related materials are online here.

All members of the faculty are invited to attend and participate in this meeting — one of two each year where the full “General Faculty” are engaged.

Meanwhile, we invite all faculty to join the campus community at the reception welcoming the Chancellor-Elect this afternoon at 4 p.m. in the FedEx Global Education Center, located at 301 Pittsboro Street.

Issue 7.7
April 11, 2013

From the Office of Faculty Governance
200-04 Carr Building, UNC-CH Campus Box 9170
Phone (919) 962-2146
Fax (919) 962-5479
Contact: Anne Whisnant

The Office of Faculty Governance publishes Faculty Governance News monthly. Send information to be considered for inclusion to Anne Whisnant on Monday before an issue is scheduled to appear. For immediate news, “Like” our page on Facebook or “Follow Us” on Twitter (@UNCFacGov).

Faculty Council & General Faculty to meet Friday, April 12; new time: 2pm

Friday, April 12 brings the final Faculty Council meeting of the 2012-13 academic year; as is our tradition, this meeting is also a meeting of the General Faculty, and all faculty members are especially encouraged to attend.  Due to events related to a special Board of Governors meeting this Friday, we have moved the Faculty Council meeting time one hour earlier, to 2:00 pm.  As usual, the meeting will be in the Hitchcock Room at the Stone Center.

The agenda and all materials are now online here.  Highlights of Friday’s meeting include saying farewell to Chancellor Thorp and Provost Carney, discussing the annual reports of the Committee on the Status of Women and the Committee on Fixed-Term Faculty, voting on four resolutions, and considering proposals for reform of the Honor System.

Faculty Elections 2013 are next week (April 15-22)!

The 2013 Faculty Elections will be conducted by electronic survey next week.  All members of the Voting Faculty will receive their individualized, unique ballot by email early Monday morning, April 15th.  Voters will have until midnight on Monday, April 22 to cast ballots, and results will be announced on April 26th.  This year’s full Voter Information Guide, with short statements from nearly all of the candidates, is now online.  If you believe you are eligible to vote and do not receive a ballot on Monday morning, please contact Anne Whisnant in our office (anne_whisnant@unc.edu).

Faculty invited to contribute to Habitat for Humanity house in honor of Thorps

This spring, the UNC Habitat for Humanity chapter is building a home for a local family in honor of Patti and Holden Thorp. The Thorps have been strong advocates and facilitators for Habitat in the Chapel Hill community. The chapter wishes to recognize their outstanding service and positive impact and invites you to support this endeavor. The cost to sponsor this house is $20,000. Your contribution will buy nails, paint, wood, or shingles for a family actively pursuing a brighter future, a place to call home. If you would like to join in this expression of appreciation and support of the Thorps, please send a check to:

UNC Habitat for Humanity
FPG Union, Box 38
Chapel Hill, NC 27514

Or go to http://www.razoo.com/story/Spring-House-To-Honor-The-Thorps to donate online. Your donation is tax deductible under the University of North Carolina tax exemption code of 56-6001393. The UNC Habitat for Humanity Chapter will recognize you personally for your donation. All donors will be recognized in a special book presented to the Thorps at the house dedication, and will be featured on a sponsorship banner at our spring Blitz Build.

Forum on the role of athletics at Carolina to be held April 19

Carolina will convene a panel of distinguished leaders in higher education and athletics on April 19 to consider the role of athletics in the life of Carolina.  The idea of a panel originated in a report produced in 2012 by a Faculty Executive Committee.  Full details on the forum may be found here.

The panel will meet from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. in the Carolina Inn, Hill Ballroom South.

The panel chair is Hunter Rawlings, president of the Association of American Universities.  He will be joined by James Delany, a UNC alumnus who was commissioner of the Big Ten Conference and a former NCAA enforcement officer; Bob Malekoff, associate professor and sport studies chair at Guilford College and a former athletics director and head coach who has written about athletics and sports management at the collegiate and professional levels; Amy Perko, executive director of the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics; and Patricia Timmons-Goodson, former associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court and a UNC alumna.  The event will also feature a roundtable with five other speakers:  Jay Bilas from ESPN, Bubba Cunningham (UNC’s athletics director), Joy Renner (chair of UNC’s Faculty Athletics Committee), Jay Smith (Professor of History), and Richard Southall (Associate Professor of Sport Administration, director of College Sport Research Institute).

Commencement weekend events: how to participate

Commencement Weekend 2013 is coming up!  Faculty are invited to be involved.  Full information is coming online at http://commencement.unc.edu/.  Key things you need to know:  Saturday, May 11th is the Ph.D. hooding ceremony, and commencement is Sunday, May 12th.  Faculty are invited to participate in both events — either with or without regalia.

The Doctoral Hooding ceremony will take place on Saturday, May 11, at 10 a.m. in the Dean Smith Center. The featured speaker will be Dr. Dan Ariely, James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University.  Dr. Ariely received his master’s degree and doctorate in cognitive psychology from Carolina. His research has transformed our understanding of human decision-making. During the ceremony, each graduate will be called to the stage to receive the doctoral hood from his or her advisor.

Non-hooding faculty members who wish to march in the academic processional should arrive at the Smith Center (entrance D) no later than 9:30 a.m. and congregate in the Press Room on the lower level (take elevators or stairs down to the first floor). Marshals will direct you to the line-up site. Read more information about the hooding ceremony here.  Parking will be available in all the lots around the Smith Center.

University Commencement is on Sunday, May 12 at 9:30 a.m. in Kenan Stadium, where it will be held rain or shine. If it rains during the ceremony, the ceremony may be shortened; in the event of dangerous severe weather, it will be cancelled.  This year’s speaker is Steve Case, co-founder of American Online.  Faculty participating in the processional should park in the new Bell Tower deck and gather on the second floor of the Kenan Football Center at 9:00 a.m.  From there, Faculty Marshal Valerie Ashby will lead the faculty processional.

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Photo courtesy UNC News Services.

PLEASE NOTE THIS MEETING HAS BEEN CANCELLED AND WILL BE RESCHEDULED FOR APRIL 26, 2013–MORE DETAILS SOON

The final Faculty Council meeting of 2012-13 will be held this Friday, April 12, 2013 from 2:00 to 4:00 pm (one hour earlier than usual) in the Hitchcock Room at the Stone Center.  As usual, this final meeting of the year is also a meeting of the General Faculty, and all faculty members are encouraged to attend. The agenda and all reports and resolutions to be considered Friday are now available here. Three substantive standing committee reports will be considered (Educational Policy Committee, Committee on the Status of Women, Fixed-Term Faculty Committee).  Status of Women and Fixed-Term Faculty will report the results of year-long investigations of women faculty in leadership and fixed-term faculty titles, respectively.  Additionally, the Committee on Student Conduct will report progress on efforts to reform the Honor System.  Four resolutions will be voted on, including one that addresses the question of scheduling football games on weekdays. We invite you to join us for refreshments beginning at 1:30 pm.

You can view the short Voter Guide, which contains only offices and brief information about all candidates, here.

You can view the full Voter Guide, which contains short biographical and issue statements from each candidate, here.

The Faculty Elections will take place via electronic ballot emailed to all members of the Voting Faculty on Monday, April 15, 2013.  The ballot will remain open through midnight on Monday, April 22, 2013.  Results will be posted on April 26, 2013.

We hope you will take the time to participate in this year’s elections.

Faculty Governance News

Issue 7.6
March 22, 2013

From the Office of Faculty Governance
200-04 Carr Building, UNC-CH Campus Box 9170
Phone (919) 962-2146
Fax (919) 962-5479
Contact: Anne Whisnant

The Office of Faculty Governance publishes Faculty Governance News approximately monthly. Send information to be considered for inclusion to Anne Whisnant. For immediate news, “Like” our page on Facebook or “Follow Us” on Twitter (@UNCFacGov).

Faculty Council resolutions all online

Faculty Council has been busy this year, passing quite a number of resolutions on issues from syllabi requirements to guidelines for independent studies.  All approved resolutions are posted here.

Final Faculty Council/General Faculty meeting is April 12th

The year’s final Faculty Council meeting (which is also traditionally a meeting of the General Faculty) will take place Friday, April 12, 2013, from 3:00 to 5:00 pm in the Hitchcock Room at the Stone Center.  All faculty members are invited to attend.

As always, we’ll be live-tweeting the meeting with the hashtag #FacCouncil from our account @UNCFacGov.

Faculty elections April 15-22; voter guide online soon

The annual facultywide elections for Faculty Council and the eleven elected standing committees of the faculty will take place April 15-22 via electronic ballot emailed to all members of the Voting Faculty.

Although there is no election this year for Chair of the Faculty, there will be important elections for crucial policymaking bodies including Faculty Council; the Educational Policy Committee; Faculty Athletics Committee; campus-level Appointments, Promotions, and Tenure Committee; and Faculty Executive Committee.  We’ll have our annual Voter Guide available in early April, both on the web and in the University Gazette.  Then, watch your email on April 15th for the link to your individualized ballot.  Faculty participation in elections has been trending upward in recent years – let’s keep that going!

Nominate a faculty colleague for the Thomas Jefferson Award (deadline April 1st)

The faculty Committee on Honorary Degrees and Special Awards invites your nominations for the 2013 Thomas Jefferson Award. Established in 1961, this award is given annually to “that member of the academic community who through personal influence and performance of duty in teaching, writing, and scholarship has best exemplified the ideals and objectives of Thomas Jefferson.”  Any active member of the faculty is eligible, including those participating in the phased-retirement program. Full information about the award (including a list of past recipients and directions for how to submit a nomination) is available here on the Faculty Governance website.  The deadline for nominations is this April 1, 2013.   The award will be presented at the September, 2013 Faculty Council meeting.

AWFP’s Mary Turner Lane Award nomination deadline is March 29th

The Association for Women Faculty and Professionals invites nominees for the Mary Turner Lane award to be presented to a woman who has made an outstanding contribution to the lives of women on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus.  The nomination deadline is March 29, 2013. This year’s recipient will be honored at the annual AWFP Spring Luncheon, now set for May 2, 2013.  Full details on the award and instructions on how to nominate someone are here.

Know of a faculty colleague who has died in the last year?

The Office of Faculty Governance is compiling our annual remembrance of deceased faculty, to be posted online and read aloud at the April Faculty Council meeting.  If you know of a current or retired faculty colleague who has died since April 2012, please send the person’s name and a link to any obituary you may know of to Katie Turner in our office (katie_turner@unc.edu).  Thank you.

Scholars for a Progressive North Carolina will hold public forum, March 28, 5:00 pm, at Sanford School, Duke

Scholars from across the Triangle are have formed Scholars for a Progressive North Carolina, an organization of people from institutions of higher education across the state who are committed to using the best available research knowledge to foster informed conversations about North Carolina’s history and current public policy challenges.  On Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 5:00 pm, SPNC will hold a free public forum to discuss how laws already passed and in the works in the North Carolina General Assembly will, according to their press release, “impede economic recovery, restrict democracy, stifle critical thought, and undercut a century of reforms to promote opportunity, widely shared prosperity, and the common good.”

Moderator: Dr. Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Julia Cherry Spruill Professor of History, UNC Chapel Hill

Panelists:

• William Hodding Carter III, University Professor of Leadership & Public Policy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Dr. Katherine Charron, Associate Professor of History, North Carolina Central University
• Dr. Willie Jennings, Associate Professor of Theology and Black Church Studies, Duke Divinity School
• Dr. Robert Korstad, Kevin D. Gorter Professor of Public Policy and History, Duke University
• Dr. David Jolly, Associate Professor and Chair, Public Health Education, North Carolina Central University
• Dr. Helen Ladd, Edgar T. Thompson Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Economics, Duke University
• Dr. Nancy MacLean, William H. Chafe Professor of History and Public Policy, Duke University
• Dr. Gunther Peck, Fred W. Shaffer Associate Professor of History and Public Policy, Duke University

Panelists will speak for 5 minutes each, take questions from the press, and then open the floor to discussion.  Information online at http://sites.duke.edu/spnc/.

North Carolina Vision Coalition invites signatures on petition regarding communications with UNC Board of Governors

The North Carolina Vision Coalition, a group of faculty, staff, and students from UNC system schools that has been meeting together since last fall, has asked us to circulate the following invitation:

“Do you want to protect the public nature of UNC? Do you value transparency and democracy in public institutions? The Board of Governors will be making many decisions in coming months that will impact the future of all campuses of the UNC system. If you believe that faculty, staff and students should have more opportunities to provide input on UNC’s future, please consider signing our petition. We welcome signatures from faculty, staff, students, alums, and community members.”  You can find the petition here: Democratize the University of North Carolina – Students, staff and faculty of the NC Vision Coalition petition.