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Faculty Executive Committee discusses chancellor search and curriculum at meeting

UNC’s Faculty Executive Committee met on Monday to discuss the UNC Board of Governors' proposal to mandate “Foundations of American Democracy” ...

Board of Trustees approves increased salary range for tenured professors

The UNC Board of Trustees approved a motion introduced by Jennifer Halsey Evans to increase the salary range for tenured and tenure-track professors in ...

'Exceptionally distinguished scholars': Meet four incoming Hussman professors

By Ira Wilder | January 11

Column: Despite GOP attacks, tenure is absolutely essential to higher education

Faculty of color consider leaving, cite lack of opportunities and toxic environment

By Sasha Schroeder | September 15

UNC faculty said they have considered leaving the University for peer institutions due to a lack of leadership opportunities and a toxic environment for ...

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'We still have more to do': UNC minority faculty tops peer group at 11 percent

By Cain Twyman | April 9

Though UNC ranks among the highest of its peer institutions in terms of diversity, many still see room for improvement in the percentage of faculty of ...

Omid Safi, a former UNC professor, is now the director of the Islamic Studies at Duke. One of the reasons he left was to have more freedom to give his political opinion.

Former UNC faculty, staff explain reasoning for taking offers at Duke

By Leah Moore | March 9

In the 2015-16 school year, at least 11 faculty members left UNC and five offers from Duke University were made to faculty, Executive Vice Provost Ron ...

Research instructional services librarian Angela Bardeen helps students find information about their research, narrow down paper topics, and select good sources at Davis Library.

Librarians make students shelf-sufficient

By Elizabeth Baker | April 13

They had different reasons for wanting to be librarians.

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 ...

UNC tuition hikes to target faculty retention

By Sarah Brown | February 10

Losing prized faculty members to other universities that make lucrative offers — it’s an unfortunately familiar, persistent problem for the UNC system. ...

UNC-system faculty workloads data draws criticism

By Benji Schwartz | August 24

A recent report from the Pope Center that accuses UNC-system schools of inflating faculty workloads has drawn criticism from system administrators. ...

Professor Fred Clark retires from teaching

By Emily Ruffin | July 21

Although Fred Clark’s 47 years of teaching at UNC have come to a close, he won’t be leaving just yet.

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Economics lecturer Jeremy Petranka leaves for Duke

By Jane Wester | July 7

As of July 1, popular economics lecturer Jeremy Petranka has moved from UNC to Duke, but he won't be spending all his time in Durham.

UNC Board of Governors will vote on out-of-state tuition rates

By Amy Tsai | June 16

In a departure from precedent, last year the N.C. General Assembly bypassed the UNC-system Board of Governors and mandated steep out-of-state tuition ...

UNC sees rise in outside offers to expert faculty

By Jenny Surane | May 19

He called it a Godfather offer — the one he couldn’t refuse.