FACULTY GOVERNANCE NEWS

November 2020

Meeting of the Faculty Council and the General Faculty on November 6

The November Faculty Council meeting will also be a meeting of the General Faculty on Friday, Nov. 6 from 3 to 5 p.m. This joint meeting usually takes place in December, but is being held earlier this year to occur during the fall semester.

Award Nomination Deadlines

x

XO. Max Gardner Award

X(Campus nominee)

Xdue November 23, 2020

XHonorary Degrees

Xdue February 15, 2021

XThomas Jefferson Award

Xdue March 22, 2021



November Chair of the Faculty Message

This election season has been particularly intense given all that is at stake no matter which political party or movement we espouse. Many of us, already exhausted by the ongoing pandemic and social injustices, find ourselves stressed and worried about how the next week, or perhaps weeks, will unfold. Even as we experience our own stress and worry, our students look to us for examples of how to process events that may have complicated sequelae. If a person’s candidate wins and violence accompanies that win, how do we think about it and responsibly respond? If we don’t know the outcome of particular contests right away, how do we live with yet another level of uncertainty? Is it advisable

Mimi Chapman

to march in protest in the midst of pandemic in which numbers are skyrocketing? Is it an act of cowardice to stay home even if a protest is something we believe in? Read more

Campus and Community Advisory Committee provides set of recommendations on Spring

An advisory group to the senior administration, the Campus and Community Advisory Committee has met weekly since late September to discuss a variety of topics related to spring semester. The committee co-chairs — Faculty Chair Mimi Chapman, Chair of the Employee Forum Chair Shayna Hill and Student Body President Reeves Moseley — submit the committee's recommendations to the chancellor and provost on a regular basis. The Office of Faculty Governance posts weekly updates from the committee and information about upcoming meetings on its news page. This information is also available on the Carolina Together website along with recordings of past meetings.

Nominations open for 2021 O. Max Gardner Award

Samantha Meltzer-Brody

On behalf of the Honorary Degrees and Special Awards Committee, nominations are now being accepted for the UNC-Chapel Hill nominee for the O. Max Gardner Award through Nov. 23. This recognition is awarded to a faculty member in the UNC-System "who, during the current scholastic year, has made the greatest contribution to the welfare of the human race.” It is the highest honor the System confers on faculty.

This year's awardee is Samantha Meltzer-Brody from our campus. She is the Assad Meymandi Distinguished Professor and the chair of the Department of Psychiatry. She also directs the UNC Center for Women’s Mood Disorders.

Professor Meltzer-Brody has been at Carolina since 2000 during which time she has built an important research program and been a champion of women's health, especially mental health.

Learn more about this distinguished colleague in a feature from The Well.

More information about the O. Max Gardner Award and how to submit a nomination, are available here.

Equity in Teaching Institute in December

The Center for Faculty Excellence sponsors The Equity in Teaching Institute (EqTI) to give instructors an opportunity to focus on boosting and implementing equity in their teaching. The next Institute will be held virtually on Dec. 8-9, 2020.

Applications for the December Institute are due by Friday, Nov. 13.

More details and the application are available on a webpage that also includes online resources to help instructors bring equitable practices to remote teaching.

Post-Election 2020 Q&A Series

In order to assess what happens after this year's election, faculty experts from the School of Law and the Department of Political Science will come together for six non-partisan discussions about the most pressing legal and political issues that arise in the days and weeks following election day.

Topics for each session will be determined by current events to address questions about election law, constitutional law, state and federal court systems, laws relating to demonstrations/protests and more. No two sessions will be the same.

Registration is required for each session.

Cultural Industry, Techno-capitalism, and Labor:

The Mediated Exploitation of Black and Brown Bodies

The Race, Racism and Racial Equity (R3) Symposium, hosted by the University Office for Diversity and Inclusion, is a series of virtual events that brings together scholars and researchers from across campus to share their work with Carolina and the broader community. The next event will be held on Nov. 11 at 1 p.m. and feature scholars from across UNC, including Business and Communications, who will share their work on issues of language, representation, cultural appropriation, and decontextualization of Black and Brown labor as it appears through a variety of media.

More information.

Additional Events and Announcements

• Election 2020: What's Next? (11/4)
• The Power of the Pivot and Perseverance: When Innovation Meets Creativity (11/5)
• First Gen Faculty Panel: How My Identity Influences My Academic Research (11/6)
• TEAM ADVANCE Professional Development Workshop: Mentoring Up: Optimizing Mentoring Relationships (11/6)
• Cairns Capstone Lecture: Socioeconomic Disparities in Health: Costs of Upward Mobility? (11/9)
• IAH Publication Support Grant (application reviews begin on 11/9)
• Health Care Safe Zone Training (11/10)
• We Honor You: Veterans Day Event (11/10)
• What Happened? What's Next? A Conversation in the Aftermath of the 2020 Election (11/10)
• Black Community Convening: Organizing for Our Needs (11/11)
• Uhlman Family Distinguished Scholar Lecture: "Ordinary Men Revisited: The Evolution of Holocaust Perpetrator Studies" (11/12)
• "Systemic Racism and The Way We Think" Hour of Action (11/13)
• Communicating Statistics in the Age of COVID (11/16)
• La Confédération Universelle des Juifs Sépharadites: Building a Transnational Sephardi Network out of Interwar Paris (11/16)
• Standard Safe Zone Training (11/16)
• Bullitt History of Medicine Lecture: The History of Anti-Vaccination (11/17)
• 22nd Annual Holiday Carolina Blood Drive (11/19)
• CFE Course Design Institute (11/30)
• Southern Cultures Call for Submissions: The Abolitionist South (due by 11/30)
• Ongoing: Create your ORCID iD and connect it to UNC

November Faculty Governance Committee Calendar

Meetings are subject to change on short notice. All meetings are open to everyone, including members of the public, unless held in closed session. The online calendar includes meeting times and remote connection information, as available.

11/02    Committee on Fixed-Term Faculty

11/02    Faculty Executive Committee

11/04    Committee on Appointments, Promotions and Tenure

11/04    Educational Policy Committee

11/05    Faculty Athletics Committee

11/05    Faculty Information Technology Advisory Committee

11/06    Faculty Council and Meeting of the General Faculty

11/09    Administrative Board of the Library

11/11    Advisory Committee

11/12    Buildings and Grounds Committee

11/16    Committee on Community and Diversity

11/16    Faculty Executive Committee

11/16    Faculty Welfare Committee

11/16    Status of Women Committee

11/16    University Committee on Copyright

11/20    Agenda Committee    

11/30    Committee on Fixed-Term Faculty

11/30    Faculty Executive Committee

11/30    Honorary Degrees and Special Awards Committee

12/01    Educational Policy Committee

12/03    Faculty Athletics Committee

12/04    Faculty Council