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A prudent delay to in-person classes

January 13, 2021 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

CHAPEL HILL – Officials at UNC-Chapel Hill, Appalachian State and UNC-Charlotte are to be commended for holding off on resumption of in-person classes. UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz and Provost Robert Blouin announced last week that classes will still resume Jan. 19, but in-person classes will not begin until Feb. 8. “We are making these… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2021, Appalachian State, Crisis Response, UNC Chapel Hill, UNC Charlotte

Steve Farmer: No number measures a student

September 23, 2020 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

CHAPEL HILL (Sept. 21, 2020) – When we apply to college, we obsess about numbers – GPA, SAT, ACT, class rank. But Steve Farmer sees the whole person. Not just a number. Farmer’s departure as UNC-Chapel Hill’s vice provost for enrollment and undergraduate admissions, announced Monday, is a tremendous loss for the University. A Virginia… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2020, Focus on Quality, UNC Chapel Hill

Goldstein: Lessons learned from UNC’s failed reopening

August 27, 2020 by Higher Ed Works 11 Comments

By Buck Goldstein When I wrote earlier that the fall semester at Chapel Hill would be a test case for broader reopening in society, this isn’t quite what I had in mind. UNC has been in the national news as one of the first schools to reopen — and now one of the first to… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2020, Crisis Response, UNC Chapel Hill

Guskiewicz: Coping for today, but building for tomorrow

August 20, 2020 by Higher Ed Works 4 Comments

EDITOR’S NOTE: After months of preparing to return to campus, UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz made a wrenching decision this week to shift the University back to remote instruction. With Entrepreneur in Residence Buck Goldstein, Guskiewicz teaches a graduate seminar called The American Professoriate. These are his reflections after the first day of class. By… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2020, Crisis Response, UNC Chapel Hill

Guskiewicz: Faculty ‘solving the grand challenges of our time’

August 12, 2020 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

CHAPEL HILL – Viruses are Carolina’s thing. Whether it’s pioneering work in HIV by Dr. Mike Cohen or development of the drug remdesivir by Dr. Ralph Baric to treat COVID-19, the university has a focus – and a reputation – for taking on some of the world’s nastiest infections. While professors teach the next generation, UNC Chapel… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2020, Crisis Response, UNC Chapel Hill

Guskiewicz: ‘We can do this safely’

June 10, 2020 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

CHAPEL HILL – Some of the plans are still coming together. But UNC Chapel Hill Chancellor Kevin M. Guskiewicz says he’s confident students can safely return to campus this fall. “Most people are eager to get back,” Guskiewicz says in the accompanying video from a Zoom interview. “We’ll only do that if it is safe… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2020, Crisis Response, UNC Chapel Hill

Guskiewicz: Researcher, listener, conciliator

December 18, 2019 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

CHAPEL HILL – When he named Kevin Guskiewicz as Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill last week, UNC System Interim President Bill Roper named a nationally recognized concussion researcher, a listener and a conciliator. “Kevin Guskiewicz possesses the leadership qualities needed to take Carolina forward: strength, poise, humility, vision, the strong… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2019, Leadership, UNC Chapel Hill

Guskiewicz shares concerns about Silent Sam settlement

December 18, 2019 by Higher Ed Works 3 Comments

After listening to faculty and students, then-Interim Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz of UNC-Chapel Hill sent the following letter to UNC Interim President Bill Roper and UNC Board of Governors Chair Randy Ramsey regarding the campus climate and concerns about the legal settlement of the Confederate Monument. December 11, 2019 President William RoperRandy Ramsey, Chair – UNC… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2019, Leadership, UNC Chapel Hill

2019 Davie Awards: Teresa Williams, Kel Landis, Art Pope

November 22, 2019 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

CHAPEL HILL (Nov. 19, 2019) – Interim Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Board of Trustees presented the board’s highest honor this week to three individuals who exemplify dedication, commitment and service to the University. The three recipients of the 2019 William Richardson Davie Award are Teresa Holland Williams of… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2019, UNC Chapel Hill

Carolina faculty roll out to explore NC

November 7, 2019 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

CHAPEL HILL – You don’t normally picture professors from UNC-Chapel Hill in Kinston. Or Eden. Or Rocky Mount. Or Cherokee. Or North Wilkesboro. Or Lumberton. But those are just some of the places they visited Oct. 16-18 on the Tar Heel Bus Tour, an effort launched in 1997 by the late Chancellor Michael Hooker. Interim… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2019, Excellence, Great Universities, UNC Chapel Hill

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