An Open Letter to Chancellor Carol Folt:
The Retired Faculty Association of UNC Chapel Hill wishes to thank you for your many contributions to Carolina. We appreciate your brilliance, energy, warmth, courage and compassion, expressed in remarkable and untiring work. You oversaw the development of a strategic plan, successful fund-raising (which dwarfs previous efforts beginning with the Bicentennial Campaign of 1993), major advances in research and research funding and contributions that include a Nobel prize, creative and productive teaching and notable public service ranging from local to global. We experienced a flowering of the arts, including the Arts Everywhere initiative, and a vigorous defense of intellectual work, exemplified by your oft-noted characterization of the humanities as both liberal arts and also “liberating arts.” Your decision to resign was courageous and intelligent. Our challenge now is to build on what you have done.
Sincerely,
Patricia Pukkila, RFA President, on behalf of the The Executive Committee of the Retired Faculty Association
