This summer, Chancellor Lee Roberts appointed a new committee to examine the usage and governance of space in the Campus Y building.
The Campus Y is UNC's largest public service student organization, consisting of three separate entities, UNC Y— a department within Student Affairs, the Campus Y Student Organization and the Campus Y building itself.
The committee, comprised of 15 alumni, students and faculty, will be tasked with providing recommendations to the chancellor on building usage, including operating hours and access.
Chaired by chancellor emeritus James Moeser and former Board of Trustees chair Richard Stevens, the group is scheduled to meet each Friday and deliver a final report by Nov. 1.
Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld, a professor in anthropology and former Campus Y co-president during the 1986-87 year, said that the Campus Y has many continuities through its history.
“It is a broadly supportive place to help students who have a vision of positive social change,” Colloredo-Mansfeld said. “I found that to be true then in the 1980s, and I find it to be true in the 2020s.”
Additionally, Colloredo-Mansfeld said that the Campus Y has allowed students to pursue many different kinds of projects that span from service work in communities to social justice activism.
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Last semester, UNC administration temporarily closed the Campus Y days after the shutdown of the pro-Palestine encampment on Polk Place, before reopening the facility under revised partial hours. Stevens said there were concerns over the closure of the Campus Y and that the administration is taking a more comprehensive look at the usage of campus facilities by different groups.