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Faculty Council wraps up 2014-2015

By Stephanie Lamm | April 25

UNC's turbulent year was on the minds of many at the final Faculty Council meeting of the academic year Friday.

Filling top in administration spots costs UNC $840K

By Amanda Albright | April 24

If anyone should be happy about chancellors quitting after just years on the job, it’s William Funk.

Students and faculty gathered to rally on the steps of Wilson Library on Wednesday.

Campaign to win better pay for adjunct faculty gains steam in NC

By Sarah Brown | April 19

North Carolina college students will soon finish up the spring semester and leave campus for internships, study abroad and beach vacations. One of their ...

Pharmacy professor Lee dedicated to research

By Anyssa Reddix | April 16

At a research-based university like UNC, professors who conduct and publish their research are not uncommon.

Adjunct faculty push for fair pay

By Sarah Brown | April 16

There are the familiar faces of the worker’s rights movement: fast-food workers, health care workers, farmers. And there are the unexpected ones: university ...

Bobbi Owen still under disciplinary review

By Jane Wester | April 14

Bobbi Owen said she wants to be known as a professor of dramatic art.

Faculty Executive Committee reviews proposals for athlete education

By Sarah Thomas | April 14

Faculty Executive Committee members discussed new specialized education proposals for UNC athletes when they met Monday.

Brian Hogan wins Carolina Chiron Award

By Kristen Chung | April 9

References to a broken scooter and a bag of shattered light bulbs were key parts of the lecture that Brian Hogan gave to a mix of students and faculty ...

UNC system, legislature often find themselves at odds

By Nick Niedzwiadek | April 1

The road between University administrators in South Building and legislators in downtown Raleigh is the same as it’s always been — even if in recent ...

Discussion on women in the workplace draws a crowd

By Sindhu Chidambaram | March 31

Less than a week after a former housekeeper sued the University for a hostile work environment — in a lawsuit that detailed a sex-for-hire scandal in ...

Proposal would require UNC professors to teach eight courses a year

By Hallie Dean | March 31

Tenured professors at UNC teach an average of 2.5 courses per semester — but a new proposal in the N.C. General Assembly could require all UNC-system ...

Associate Professor at North Carolina Central University Antonio Baines (right), speaks at the Faculty Executive meeting on Monday.

Trustee asks faculty to give feedback on Saunders Hall

By Sarah Thomas | March 31

University Trustee Chuck Duckett attended Monday’s Faculty Executive Committee to inform committee members about the progress of the proposal to rename ...

Q&A with UNC author Andrew Reynolds

By Jun Chou | March 25

Four years and three drafts later,UNC political science professor Andrew Reynolds is publishing “The Arab Spring: Pathways of Repression and Reform.” ...

Mary Kay Henry, the first woman president of Service Employees International Union and other service workers, speak for Raise Up for $15 in Chapman Hall Monday evening.

Workers, adjunct faculty struggle with wages

By Sam Shaw | March 24

Students, low-wage workers and a union president sought to find common ground in the plight of minimum-wage workers and adjunct faculty at an event Monday. ...

UNC to grant students' requests for admissions files under FERPA

By Corey Risinger | March 23

College acceptance might no longer be a mystery to UNC students — the University is expected to join a national movement and release admissions files ...

Faculty Council passes two amendments, reviews new HR system

By Rebecca Brickner | March 20

Friday's Faculty Council meeting covered an array of topics — including the University’s loan to the Northside neighborhood as well ...

Binge drinking working group prepares for the long haul

By Acy Jackson | March 5

After first bringing up the issue in October, Provost Jim Dean and other members of a new binge drinking working group held their first meeting Thursday. ...

The Faculty Athletics Committee met on Tuesday afternoon in South Building. Joy Renner (left), a committee member from the department of allied health sciences, leads discussion points of the meeting. (Chris Kielt (right), Vice Chancellor for Information and Technology).

Faculty Athletics Committee discusses athletes’ cases

By Katie Kilmartin | March 4

The Faculty Athletics Committee spent half of its Tuesday meeting in closed session, as the members discussed specific student-athletes’ cases.

Faculty respond to Board of Governors decision to close poverty center

By Megan Morris | February 27

Chancellor Carol Folt raced to Friday’s Faculty Council meeting from the Board of Governors meeting in Charlotte, where members decided to close UNC ...

Didem Turkoglu (right), a teaching assistant and doctoral candidate in the sociology department, spoke at the rally Wednesday.

Rally supports non-tenured faculty

By Paige Hopkins | February 25

Students, faculty and others rallied together on the steps of Wilson Library on Wednesday to call for a living wage, increased benefits and better working ...