CHAPEL HILL (Jan. 19, 2021) â UNC-Chapel Hill learned a few things about COVID-19 and human behavior last fall. As students resume classes today, Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz says in the accompanying video, officials have put those lessons to work. âItâll be different from a typical semester, but weâre going to do everything we can to… READ MORE
Financial challenges at Chapel Hill
CHAPEL HILL (Jan. 15, 2021) â Between reduced state support over the past decade and additional spending due to the coronavirus pandemic, UNC-Chapel Hill faces substantial financial challenges. âWe will have a financial shortfall due to the pandemic that weâre going to have to address. But we donât yet know the full extent of it,â… READ MORE
A prudent delay to in-person classes
CHAPEL HILL â 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. âWe are making these… READ MORE
Steve Farmer: No number measures a student
CHAPEL HILL (Sept. 21, 2020) â When we apply to college, we obsess about numbers â GPA, SAT, ACT, class rank. But Steve Farmer sees the whole person. Not just a number. Farmerâs departure as UNC-Chapel Hillâs vice provost for enrollment and undergraduate admissions, announced Monday, is a tremendous loss for the University. A Virginia… READ MORE
Goldstein: Lessons learned from UNCâs failed reopening
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 isnât quite what I had in mind. UNC has been in the national news as one of the first schools to reopen â and now one of the first to… READ MORE
Guskiewicz: Coping for today, but building for tomorrow
EDITORâS 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
Guskiewicz: Faculty âsolving the grand challenges of our timeâ
CHAPEL HILL â Viruses are Carolinaâs thing. Whether itâs 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 â and a reputation â for taking on some of the worldâs nastiest infections. While professors teach the next generation, UNC Chapel… READ MORE
Guskiewicz: âWe can do this safelyâ
CHAPEL HILL â Some of the plans are still coming together. But UNC Chapel Hill Chancellor Kevin M. Guskiewicz says heâs confident students can safely return to campus this fall. âMost people are eager to get back,â Guskiewicz says in the accompanying video from a Zoom interview. âWeâll only do that if it is safe… READ MORE
Guskiewicz: Researcher, listener, conciliator
CHAPEL HILL â 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. âKevin Guskiewicz possesses the leadership qualities needed to take Carolina forward: strength, poise, humility, vision, the strong… READ MORE
Guskiewicz shares concerns about Silent Sam settlement
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 â UNC… READ MORE
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