State
employees campaign
kicks off Oct. 1
Carolina will kick off its part in the annual fundraiser, the
State Employees Combined Campaign (SECC), on Oct. 1. (See below.)
With
a theme of "Hope. It's all some people have ..." organizers
hope to raise $1.1 million for local, state and national non-profit
organizations through the Orange County Campaign, which runs from
Oct. 1 to Oct. 31. Last year, SECC raised a little over $1.1 million
dollars.
School
of Public Health Dean Bill Roper and Bob Schreiner, the school's
special project director, are this year's co-chairs.
Roper
said that the 2002 campaign offers employees a wonderful opportunity
to continue Carolina's strong tradition of serving the people
of North Carolina.
"It
is a great honor to serve as co-chair for this campaign,"
he said. "The combined campaign offers a great way for Carolina
to give to our communities.
"I
believe my serving as co-chair emphasizes the message of the importance
of the campaign to our employees and to the local community."
Charity
Fair
State Employees Combined Campaign (SECC) will kick off its 2002
campaign with a Charity Fair on Oct. 1 in the Great Hall of the
Student Union. Come by the Great Hall from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. to
learn about the various agencies supported through gifts to SECC.
Agencies will have exhibits set up so that employees can ask questions
and see exactly where their money will go. By attending the fair
and learning about what each charity does, employees can make
a donation to the charity where they feel it will do the most
good.
Stone
Center presents
diasporic issues
• di*as*po*ra
The
African diaspora is "a socio-historical concept that defines
the making of what has been called the African world. It refers
to a dispersion of people of African origin who were forcibly
removed from Africa during the trans-Atlantic slave trade. It
also includes those who left by other means. These two sets of
people have formed identifiable, stable communities in other lands."
(Definition provided by Joseph Jordan, director, Stone Center,
and edited for length.)
As
a show of commitment to the University's educational mission,
the Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center is hosting several
programs this fall in which University faculty and staff will
showcase their knowledge while presenting issues relevant to the
African diaspora* and the diasporic experience.
On
Sept. 18, Frank Brown, Cary C. Boshamer professor of education
and educational leadership professor with the School of Education,
will discuss his recent work on Caribbean and African immigrants
and compare of the trends in educational attainment among populations
and U.S.-born blacks and whites. This program is a part of the
African Diaspora Lecture Series, a cornerstone program of the
Stone Center.
Maria
DeGuzman, assistant professor of English, will moderate the second
part of the Cross-Cultural Communications Institute, another cornerstone
program. The program, Encounter/Encuentro: Meetings in African,
Latin and African American music, is scheduled for Oct. 4, with
the first part premiering on Oct. 3. Presentations also will be
made by student Nathan McClintock and Lisa Brock, associate professor
of African history and diaspora studies at the School of the Art
Institute of Chicago. Also appearing will be Anthony Macias and
Marta Moreno Vega, who served on the original panel for this event,
first presented at the 2002 National Black Arts Festival in Atlanta.
During
the entire academic year, the Stone Center will host the Diaspora
Festival of Independent Black Films. The fall edition will feature
films from Africa, Latin and North America. A discussion session
with the directors and/or artists for each film will be held after
each viewing. Charlene Regester, film historian and adjunct assistant
professor in the African and Afro-American Studies department,
has completed extensive research investigating the contributions
of African Americans to American cinema before 1950. Regester
will serve as a moderator for several of the film discussions
during the festival. For a complete listing of films, film descriptions,
and events associated with the festival, see www.unc.edu/depts/bcc.
Tuition
task force to develop plan
A task force has been formed to develop a multi-year tuition plan
for Carolina.
The
Tuition Advisory Task Force, which first met last month, has strong
student and faculty representation, Executive Vice Chancellor
and Provost Robert Shelton told the Faculty Council on Sept. 6.
It is co-chaired by Shelton and Student Body President Jen Daum.
Three members of the Board of Trustees serve on the group as well.
"We
have more time this year," Shelton said. "It will never
be enough, but we have more time."
Shelton
was alluding to the task force that attempted to do the same work
during a two-month span in December 2001 and January.
The
charge of this group will be to develop, in coordination and consultation
with the Office of the President of the UNC system, a multi-year
tuition plan. The previous University tuition task force began
with a similar charge, but those efforts were dropped in order
to allow more time for universities within the UNC system to work
in concert on such a plan.
Trustees
must approve whatever recommendation the task force makes. The
trustees' recommendation, in turn, must be approved by the UNC
Board of Governors. Any recommendation from that panel would then
be forwarded to the legislature for final approval.
A
year ago, for instance, the trustees approved a $400 increase
in student tuition, but the Board of Governors forwarded a recommendation
of only $300 to the legislature.
Shelton
has said consistently during his tenure as provost that tuition
is an issue that should be studied regularly and thoroughly and
not just in the weeks leading up to a proposed tuition increase.
Previous
task forces have been equally consistent in explaining their rationale
for increases.
A
major goal has been to set aside a fixed percentage of revenues
generated by tuition increases to provide need-based financial
aid to make sure that students from low-income families are not
priced out of college. And that has been done in every campus-based
increase enacted since the mid-1990s.
A
second goal has been to try to reserve what was left of the revenues
to enhance the quality of education here -- not just pay for rising
enrollment costs. Ways to do that include setting aside money
to retain and attract top faculty or to simply increase faculty
in order to lower class sizes.
A
third goal has been to offer students and their parents some degree
of predictability about what tuition will be throughout the students'
academic career here.
The
way to achieve predictability, Shelton and others have said, is
through a multi-year tuition plan such as the one the task force
will develop.
Election
is a test between friends
It's a race between friends.
And
whoever crosses the finish line first, the other will cheer him
or her on in the contests to come.
Such
was the tenor of appearances at a Sept. 4 Employee Forum meeting
by Howard Lee and Ellie Kinnaird, two state senators forced to
face each other in a primary campaign because of redistricting.
Kinnaird
said that it has been a difficult campaign because two people
used to running with each other have been thrown into a situation
where they have to run against each other. Kinnaird and Lee have
worked side-by-side in the Senate for the past six years, representing
an area that includes Orange County.
Regardless
of what happened in the Sept. 10 primary election between them,
Kinnaird said, each will continue to support the other.
Lee
called Kinnaird a "longtime friend and colleague" who,
along with other members of the Orange County delegation, helped
make up a "great" legislative team. Lee described himself
as a hard-hitting campaigner, part of his persona that he said
he's putting on a shelf this time around.
"I
can't do that, because I have too much respect for the woman whom
I'm challenging for this position," he said.
Both
candidates struck similar chords, saying they would fight to preserve
the University's overhead receipts and work to manage area growth
in environmentally sensitive ways.
Lee
and Kinnaird did differentiate their positions on some of the
issues in the race.
Kinnaird
said she opposes a state lottery because it would not create jobs
and would require advertising. Lee said he supported allowing
residents to vote on a referendum on the lottery.
Kinnaird
said the state must look at increasing taxes on tobacco, beer
and wine to bring in more revenue and offset cuts to programs
such as human services. Lee said every potential revenue source
needed to be examined but had to be done so in the context of
what could get through the legislature.
Campaign
finance reform would be one of Kinnaird's highest priorities,
and she has limited the amount of donations she will accept. Lee
said he supports campaign finance reform but supports campaign
"honesty" even more, with candidates being required
to disclose who gives them money and how it is used.
Kinnaird
said she would support collective bargaining for state employees
to ensure that they had a say in how the budget process affected
them, while Lee argued that the process is already open and that
the key is to make sure that state employees have a voice in that
process. Lee said he would consider a bill calling for collective
bargaining but doubted such a bill would become law.
Chancellor
endorses training measures
Chancellor James Moeser has endorsed two Employee Forum resolutions
aimed at helping to further staff members' educations and skills.
One
of the resolutions asks that "all University supervisors
encourage, support and make it possible for their employees to
attend University training, continuing education classes, and
degree seeking classes."
The
other resolution calls for Staff Development Fund earnings to
supplement Educational Assistance Program funds from now on subject
to annual review by the forum and chancellor. Administered by
the
Office
of Human Resources, the program reimburses employees up to a limited
amount per fiscal year for taking classes that relate to their
jobs.
Philip
Carson named
to University trustees
Philip G. Carson, a Carolina alumnus and an attorney from Asheville,
is the newest member of the University Board of Trustees.
The
UNC Board of Governors on Aug. 9 officially elected Carson to
fill the seat left vacant by the departure of Hugh McColl. Carson
will serve a partial term ending June 30, 2005. Afterward, he
will be eligible to serve two consecutive four-year terms.
He
will be sworn in at the Board of Trustees meeting to be held Sept.
25 at The Carolina Inn.
Born
in Gastonia in 1938, Carson graduated from Carolina in 1963 with
a bachelor of arts in English with honors in writing. He graduated
from the University's School of Law in 1967.
He
now serves as senior partner with Adams, Hendon, Carson, Crow
& Saenger, a law firm in Asheville that concentrates in business
law, taxes, estates and trusts.
Carson
served on the Board of Governors from 1973 to 1995, including
a four-year stint as chair from 1984 to 1988. In 1989, he received
the National Distinguished Service Award from the Association
of Governing Boards in recognition of his outstanding service.
He
has been involved throughout his life in a number of civic activities
and currently serves as a member of the North Carolina Progress
Board and the Heritage Tourism Advisory Committee.
He
is an Army veteran and a member of Trinity Episcopal Church. He
and his wife Ruth Bowles Carson have a daughter, Marjorie S. Carson.
Hollywood
duo teaches directing,
acting and writing
Two important motion-picture and television figures have arrived
at Carolina to teach directing, acting and writing for the stage
and screen, as visiting professors in an emerging, interdisciplinary
program in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Joan
Darling is a two-time-Emmy Award winner, who directed "Chuckles
Bites the Dust" for the "Mary Tyler Moore Show,"
one of the most lauded comic episodes on American television.
Bill Svanoe, her husband, is a well-known screenwriter and playwright,
who launched his career by writing the tune "Walk Right In,"
a number-one record for the Rooftop Singers, which he co-founded.
"It's
a real feather in the University's cap to have these two here,"
said David Sontag, the Wesley Wallace distinguished professor
of communication studies and an award-winning film and television
writer and producer.
"Bill
is one of the leading screenwriters and playwrights in the country.
Joan has won many accolades for her directing and was named one
of the top new acting teachers in America [in "The New Generation
of Acting Teachers"]," said Sontag, who is leading the
development of the new program in writing for the stage and screen,
involving faculty in communication studies, dramatic art, English
and creative writing.
Darling
was one of the first women directing film and television in the
1970s, and she was the first woman nominated for an Emmy for directing.
She won an Emmy and a Directors Guild Award, for directing the
ABC special "Mom's on Strike." Her first feature film,
"First Love" starring Susan Dey, was selected one of
the year's 10 best films by CBS.
She
directed the most memorable of the Mary Tyler Moore series. "TV
Guide" called "Chuckles Bites the Dust" the "number
one television episode of all time" and a "New York
Times" critic called it "the funniest half hour on television"
[when the ever-sober Mary tried to stifle a fit of giggles at
the funeral of a TV clown.
She
also directed the pilot of "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman"
and many award-winning popular shows, including "M.A.S.H.,"
"Magnum PI," "Phyllis," "Rhoda,"
"Doc" and "Rich Man Poor Man." She directed
two of the highest rated episodes of Steven Spielberg's "Amazing
Stories."
Darling
also held starring roles on stage and television. She appeared
for four years in the award-winning play, "The Premise"
with Gene Hackman and George Segal, and played Viola in "Twelfth
Night" for the American Shakespeare Festival. She won an
Emmy for her portrayal of Dorothy Parker in "Woven in a Crazy
Plaid."
She
is also a highly respected acting-and-directing instructor. She
created the "Directing the Actor" workshop for Robert
Redford's Sundance Institute, where she has been a creative advisor
for the past 10 years. She has also been a guest lecturer at UCLA,
the American Film Institute, the California Institute for the
Arts and the University of Southern California.
Svanoe
has won wide recognition for his work as a screenwriter and playwright.
He wrote for many television movies including "Returning
Home," a remake of the classic "Best Years of Our Lives"
starring Tom Selleck; "Miles to Go" with Martin Balsam
[for which he won the Christopher Award for Outstanding Writing);
and "Terror on the Beach" with Dennis Weaver, which
"TV Guide" called "one of the 10 best movies of
the year". He also wrote "Sparks" starring Victoria
Principal, "Seduced by Evil" with Suzanne Sommers, and
"Superdome" with David Jansen.
He
has also written for major television series, including "The
Six Million Dollar Man" starring Lee Majors and "Grif"
with Lorne Green. His feature-film screenplays include "Waltz
Across Texas" starring Anne Archer, and "Extreme Measures"
-- released as "Fatal Beauty" -- with Whoopi Goldberg.
Svanoe
is the author of stage plays produced in the United States and
Europe. His first, "The Newsstand," won him the Outstanding
New Playwright Award in New York City and the Outstanding Foreign
Playwright award in Holland. He also wrote "The Downside
Risk," "Jellyroll Shoes," "Punch and Judy,"
"Trader Jack and the Stinger," and "The Black Duck."
He
taught writing at The University of Colorado, Carnegie Mellon
University and West Virginia University. He and Darling previously
taught at Carolina during the spring 2001 semester.
Their
visiting professorship positions in the departments of communication
studies and dramatic art are supported by funds from an alumnus
who wishes to remain anonymous.
David
Orr, leading environmental education expert, speaks Sept. 24
David Orr, one of the world's leading experts on environmental
education and environmentally friendly design and construction,
will give a lecture at 7 p.m. on Sept. 24 that focuses on Oberlin
College's "green building" experience and its Climate
Neutral by 2020 policy.
The
free lecture is co-sponsored by the Carolina Environmental Program
and the University's Sustainability Coalition, and will be held
in the Tate-Turner-Kuralt Building auditorium. Refreshments will
follow the program, in the fifth-floor lounge.
Orr
will give a more technical lecture on lessons learned while designing
and constructing green buildings at 9 a.m. on Sept. 25 in Toy
Lounge, located on the fourth floor of Dey Hall.
Orr
is best known for his pioneering work on environmental literacy
in higher education and his recent work in ecological design.
He raised funds for, and led the effort to design and build, the
$7.4-million Adam J. Lewis Center for Environmental Studies at
Oberlin College, a building described by "The New York Times"
as the most remarkable of a new generation of college and university
buildings.
Orr
serves as professor and chairman of Oberlin's Environmental Studies
Program. He is a contributing editor of "Conservation Biology,"
a trustee of the Compton Foundation and the Educational Foundation
of America and a member of the Advisory Committee for the Luce
Foundation Environmental Program.
His
more than 110 publications include three books: "The Nature
of Design," "Earth in Mind" and "Ecological
Literacy." Among Orr's honors are the National Wildlife Federation's
National Conservation Achievement Award and the Lyndhurst Foundation's
Lyndhurst Prize.
"The
environmental crisis originates with the inability to think about
ecological patterns, systems of causation, and the long-term effects
of human actions. In contrast, what can be called ecological design
intelligence is the capacity to understand the ecological context
in which humans live, to recognize limits, and to get the scale
of things right," Orr wrote in "Earth in Mind."
The
UNC Sustainability Coalition was formed in response to an executive
order from then-Gov. Jim Hunt, as well as a student proposal calling
for implementation of "green" practices on campus. Such
practices are in accordance with the campus's master plan, whose
environmental strategy establishes campuswide recommendations
for keeping Carolina's natural systems healthy and reducing the
University's environmental impact on the larger community.
The
coalition includes task groups on academics, business operations,
energy, land and buildings, material resources and waste reduction,
outreach, transportation and water resources.
The
Carolina Environmental Program (CEDP) is a multidisciplinary initiative
of the University dedicated to addressing factors that build an
environmentally sustainable society. CEP offers majors in environmental
science and environmental studies within the College of Arts and
Sciences. The program also fosters collaborative research on large-scale
environmental problems and provides technical assistance, training
and up-to-date information on environmental issues to N.C. communities.
The
CEP administers a network of field sites in partnership with the
College of Arts and Sciences Study Abroad Office, including locations
in Highlands and Manteo, as well as Bangkok, Thailand and Salzburg,
Austria.
NC
DENR secretary to speak
North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources
(NC DENR) Secretary Bill Ross, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost
Robert Shelton and N.C. Central University Environmental Science
Program Director Yolanda Banks Anderson will speak at the "One
North Carolina Naturally" Eastern Piedmont Regional Meeting,
to be held Sept. 12 at the William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing
Education.
The
conference -- co-sponsored by Carolina, N.C. Central and Duke
universities -- seeks to develop and implement a statewide conservation
plan.
For
more information, contact Richard Rodgers at N.C. DENR, 715-4152
or richard.rogers@ncmail.net;
or see www.enr.state.nc.us/officeofconservation/pages/regionalmeetings.html.
