The project is using machine learning technology to digitize every Jim Crow law passed in North Carolina between the Reconstruction and Jim Crow eras. The team plans to expand the initiative to other states with the support of a $400,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
As the UNC community grappled with mental health last semester, attention turned toward the University's Counseling and Psychological Services. The University categorizes CAPS as a student service. Within the school’s budget, the operating expenses allocated to student services in the 2020 fiscal year amounted to roughly $37,208,572. CAPS accounts for around nine percent of student services expenditures, with a typical budget between $3 to 4 million per fiscal year.
A look back at UNC Board of Governors and UNC Board of Trustees decisions, discussions and policies in 2021.
Arts Everywhere partnered with the Carolina Union Activities Board for the Sept. 16 and 17 event. “This was our way of promoting the arts organizations on campus to Carolina students,” Kathryn Wagner, associate director of Arts Everywhere, said.
UNC Faculty Executive Committee members met Monday for the first time since classes started and since UNC faculty and staff members signed a petition to move classes online. They discussed COVID-19 safety, faculty communication concerns and faculty governance.
As cases of the COVID-19 delta variant rise, faculty and staff petition administrators to shift to temporarily remote learning. Titled “The Risks are Too High,” the open letter expresses concern surrounding the University’s lack of planning for an off-ramp option without a vaccine mandate or enforcing physical distancing on-campus. “I am appalled at the lack of planning for this semester," former sociology professor and petition signee Sherryl Kleinman said in a statement. "The delta variant clearly puts students, staff, faculty and surrounding communities at risk. With ICUs filling, people with serious illnesses that aren’t COVID-related will have trouble finding beds."
The University presented the MLK Unsung Hero Awards to Trevy A. McDonald and Khalilah R. Johnson. The award is given annually to up to two recipients from the UNC community who display an ongoing impact and commitment to inclusion through their everyday work and actions.
The University returned to partial in-person instruction on Feb. 8 for the first time since Aug. 18. UNC students share their reactions to resuming in-person classes this semester.
The Faculty Executive Committee went over the University budget and COVID-19 measures on Monday. The committee includes 14 faculty members, each representing a different department or school within the university.
Here’s a recap of the events of the fall semester.
Screenshot from the Faculty Executive Committee meeting held over Zoom on Monday, Jan. 25, 2021.
UNC Libraries opened the exhibition, “Race Deconstructed: Science and the Making of Difference” in Wilson Library on Feb. 13.
