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The Chancellor’s Advisory Committee met Wednesday, led by committee chairperson Joy Renner, to discuss updates to the committee’s charge and personnel action. Interim Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz was absent from this meeting because he was attending the UNC-System Board of Governors meeting at Appalachian State, according to UNC Media Relations Manager Jeni Cook.
The committee advises the chancellor in matters of importance, with special attention to policies and programs, recommendation for corrective action and the appointment of vice chancellors, deans, other senior administrators, the faculty marshal and the faculty athletics representative, according to the committee’s charge.
The committee’s charge is due for an update after years of stagnation, Renner said. The proposed changes to the committee’s charge will be brought to the Faculty Committee on University Government next fall, and it will be considered in the spring of 2020.
“This is a draft. It’s still going to change,” said Secretary of the Faculty Vin Steponaitis. “Nothing’s happening with that right now.”
One proposed change to the charge includes a new subsection which specifies the committee’s responsibility of nominating candidates for chairperson of the faculty and secretary of the faculty. This responsibility is also stated in a different part of the Faculty Code. Faculty member Ferrel Guillory voiced his concern that the Faculty Executive Committee would want to share that power.
The Faculty Executive Committee serves as an advisory committee to the chairperson of the faculty, according to the committee’s charge. Guillory said in his experience working for a non-profit, the executive committee usually holds the reins.
“If I were on the Faculty Executive Committee, I’d want part of that power, too,” Guillory said. “... Who nominates is really crucial, and I just want to make sure that you guys are thinking this through.”
The Chancellor’s Advisory Committee, however, has been around much longer than the Faculty Executive Committee and has traditionally held this power, Steponaitis said.
