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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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

See below for a complete list of the UNC law faculty signees, including those not pictured above.

Law faculty take stand on poverty center’s potential closing

By Caroline Lamb | February 24

More than 60 UNC law faculty have signed onto a statement asserting that the UNC Board of Governors’ recommendations on the future of two centers in ...

Faculty Executive Committee resolution shows support for poverty center

By Ashlen Renner | February 24

The Faculty Executive Committee has approved a resolution expressing faculty concerns over the ousting of UNC-system President Tom Ross and the recommendation ...

Professor launches veterans’ reading club at Chapel Hill Public Library

By Mengqi Jiang | February 19

Reflecting on war experience can be intensely emotional — but John Howell, Hilary Lithgow and Theresa Yuschok hope to turn those reflections into valuable ...

Two UNC professors to battle at DSI Comedy's "Oh the Humanities"

By Ryan Schocket | February 18

When UNC Shakespearean English professor Mary Floyd-Wilson was asked if she had a message for medieval historian and professor Brett Whalen, her only ...

Academic advising, transfer rules dominate committee meeting

By Sofia Edelman | February 11

Academic advising at UNC is evaluating support services provided to student-athletes.

Kevin Guskiewicz, who works in the Department of Exercise and Sport Science, and Leslie Parise, who is a professor and chair of Biochemistry and Biophysics, led the Faculty Executive meeting on Monday afternoon in South Building.

Faculty Executive Committee discusses plans for the sciences at UNC

By Stephanie Lamm | February 10

Members of the Faculty Executive Committee spent much of Monday's meeting hearing a presentation on ways to improve science programs at UNC.