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Carolina leads the way with Bain study
Community Day at the Ackland is Nov. 27
Sustainability focus, passport applications highlight international week
Eve Carson Memorial 5K for Education slated for Nov. 21

posted 11/17

Carolina leads the way with Bain study

Since Chancellor Holden Thorp hired Bain & Company to identify ways for Carolina to streamline business operations and cut costs, Cornell University and the University of California, Berkeley have followed suit.

In a Nov. 14 New York Times article, Thorp described the benefit of Bain’s outside perspective. “Like any other large organization, we hire people, we buy stuff, we connect to the Internet, we build buildings and take care of our property,” he said in the article, “and we wanted Bain to look at how we could carry out those functions as efficiently as possible.”

As a result of the study, Bain developed a set of options in 10 key project areas that could reap significant savings. Like Carolina, Cornell and Berkeley have asked Bain to focus on business functions to free up money that can be applied to academics.

For more information, you can read this New York Times article (http://universityrelations.unc.edu/budget/documents/2009/nytimes
_111509_3.pdf) and the article in the Nov. 18 University Gazette about Carolina Counts (governance.html#1), the University-wide effort to streamline operations.

posted 11/17

Community Day at the Ackland is Nov. 27

Spend the day after Thanksgiving at the Ackland Art Museum in an exploration of art and ideas from around the world.

Muralist Michael Brown will lead an art-making workshop, Carolina art students will help people design and screen-print t-shirts, and gallery teachers and docents will lead guided tours, among other family-centered events. The free daylong activities will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Specific events include moving our bodies in response to movement in art, performances by students from the Arts Academy at Chapel Hill High School, scavenger hunts, the effect of music on art and a chance to don props and costumes that suggest a favorite Ackland guardian or hero.

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posted 11/11

Sustainability focus, passport applications
highlight international week

Campus and community members are invited to take part in creating a large floor mandala – a circular graphic artwork – out of trash and recycled materials at the FedEx Global Education Center as part of International Education Week Nov. 16-20.

Mandala assembly will take place on Nov. 16 from noon to 4 p.m.; Nov. 17 from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.; and Nov. 18 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Durham artist Bryant Holsenbeck, who works with recycled materials, will direct the project. She also will speak at an opening reception for the artwork on Nov. 19 at 7 p.m.

Also, members of the campus community and their families can apply for or renew their passports Nov. 17-18. Officials from the U.S. Department of State will be on hand in room 4003 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. to accept the applications. Passport photos can be taken during the event for $7, courtesy of the UNC One Card Office, or beforehand at the UNC One Card Office. For a list of documents to bring, visit http://www.global.unc.edu.

For a full schedule of events, refer to http://www.global.unc.edu and click “Events.”

posted 11/3

Eve Carson Memorial 5K for Education
slated for Nov. 21

The second annual Eve Carson Memorial 5K for Education race will be held on Nov. 21 at 10 a.m. Check-in for the race, which begins on Polk Place in front of South Building, starts at 8 a.m.

Named for Carolina’s former student body president in honor of her commitment to service, the race is designed to bring together the campus and local communities to benefit education. Participants of all ages and skill levels are welcome, and walking is an option.

Shown in the photo at left, Chancellor Emeritus James Moeser was a participant in last year's event, which raised more than $24,000. This year, two-thirds of the proceeds will go to the Eve Carson Scholarship Fund and the remainder will be split between the First Book literacy organization and Frank Porter Graham Elementary School, where Carson volunteered as a science instructor. The event is sponsored by Pi Beta Phi sorority and Phi Delta Theta fraternity.

For more information and to register, refer to www.educationforeve.com. The registration fee is $15 before Nov. 21 and $20 on race day.