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Faculty Council passes DACA resolution

By Jessica Snouwaert | October 15

Friday’s Faculty Council meeting tackled student and campus enrichment, UNC’s Campaign for Carolina and a resolution supporting permanent legal status ...

Faculty review potential curriculum changes

By Hannah Lang | October 9

The Faculty Executive Committee held their first meeting of the month on Monday. Discussion topics ranged from the undergraduate curriculum to the Silent ...

Students and community members began a 24/7 demonstration at Silent Sam on Aug. 22.

Top four takeaways from the Faculty Council's first meeting

By Charlie McGee | September 10

The Faculty Council members met for the first time this school year Friday, tackling topics like Silent Sam and the Center for Civil Rights. ...

Stephen Anderson, Jazz professor at UNC, plays the piano for the Faculty Jazz Trio. Photo courtesy Stephen Anderson.

UNC faculty jazz trio receive a standing ovation

By Eva Ellenburg | September 4

With a soft blue light shining over them, the UNC Faculty Jazz Trio played some of the genre’s greatest hits, receiving a standing ovation from ...

Faculty Executive Committee discuss Silent Sam solutions

By Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez | August 28

Silent Sam dominated the conversation at the Faculty Executive Committee Meeting Monday afternoon, with some members calling on Chancellor Carol Folt ...

UNC faculty asks the BOG to vote against closing the Center for Civil Rights

By Ana Irizarry | August 27

The UNC-Chapel Hill Faculty Executive Committee asked the UNC Board of Governors to vote against closing the Center for Civil Rights. The committee ...

UNC professor Jessica Wolfe has been selected as one of seven long-term fellows at the Folger Shakespeare Library in 2017.

English professor Jessica Wolfe receives fellowship to work in Folger Shakespeare Library in DC

By Anish Bhatia | April 26

The Folger Shakespeare Library chose UNC English professor Jessica Wolfe as one of seven long-term fellows for the 2017-18 year. The fellowship program ...

Joe DeSimone, a UNC chemistry professor, is on leave for one year to be CEO of a 3D printing company that has partnered with Adidas to 3d print shoes. Photo courtesy of Joe DeSimone.

Q&A with professor Joe DeSimone on Carbon company and 3-D printing

By Lorcan Farrell | April 17

Chemistry professor Joe DeSimone is currently on leave from UNC to act as CEO at the company he co-founded, Carbon. Carbon uses Continuous Liquid Interface ...

OJ McGhee is the Instructional Media Services Manager in the Gillings School of Public Health.

'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 ...

Faculty Executive Committee discusses commitment to the free speech policy

By Nicole Booth | April 3

Academic advising, free speech and events on campus were all topics of conversation at Monday's Faculty Executive Committee meeting.

Ana Sofia Nuñez, an immigration attorney from Raleigh, discusses House Bill 63 and immigrants' rights on Wednesday during a panel on the topic of undocumented immigrants.

Teach-in series hosts panel on issues facing state's undocumented students and workers

By Harris Wheless | March 9

Panelists discussed immigration and documentation in the Undocumented Students and Workers in North Carolina panel discussion held Wednesday.

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 ...

Laurie McNeil talks about her contributions to pursuing gender equity.

Luncheon brings together award winners to discuss gender equity

By Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez | March 8

The first University Awards for the Advancement of Women Luncheon brought together four previous winners of the award to discuss methods of advancing ...

Faculty Council resolution aims to give fixed-term members more respectability

By Leah Asmelash | March 5

After 15 years of fighting, fixed-term teaching faculty at UNC are finally getting recognition with Resolution 2017-3, which adds teaching assistant professor ...

Faculty members signed a response to Chancellor Carol Folt's letter that responded to President Trump's executive order to ban immigration of citizens from seven countries.

UNC faculty members ask administration to do more about immigration ban

By Acy Jackson | February 1

Some UNC faculty are not happy with Chancellor Carol Folt’s response to President Donald Trump’s executive order to ban immigrants from seven predominantly-Muslim ...

Professor Jodi Magness takes students to Israel to partake in digs every summer. Photo Courtesy of Jodi Magness.

Full-time archaeologist Jodi Magness digs into teaching religion at UNC

By Leah Asmelash | January 27

Professor Jodi Magness has been on more than 20 archaeological excavations over her career, published 10 books, won numerous awards, consulted for the ...

Students, faculty and employees participate in exercise classes in the Student Recreation Center on Tuesday.

Campus recreation offers class specifically for faculty and staff

By Nic Rardin | January 26

Making it to the gym can be tough, but UNC faculty and staff have their very own group fitness course.

Students to honor the behind-the-scenes workers who care for UNC

By Kaitlyn Green | January 19

A group of UNC students is working to recognize the behind-the-scenes workers who take care of the University.

Third year Almas Islas conducts an exercise meant to give students examples of the experiences of undocumented youth Saturday afternoon in the Campus Y.

UNC faculty meeting discusses possibility of 'sanctuary university' for undocumented students

By Brinley Lowe | November 16

Sixty-three UNC staff, faculty, alumni and students squeezed into a small classroom in Dey Hall Tuesday morning to discuss how to support undocumented ...

Professor Charles Price works in the Anthropology department at UNC. Photo courtesy of Charles Price.

Anthropology professor Charles Price looks at the how's and why's of Rastafarianism

By Kayla Drake | October 31

After writing a book on the origins of Rastafarianism, anthropology professor Charles Price is continuing his research on the Rastafari culture and identity ...