SECC: 'Make a difference
in the lives of others'
Rankings reflect progress
with priorities
Rocking laser shows return
to planetarium Sept. 2
Nominations open for
University Teaching Awards
Task force follows through
on ideas
UNC defends stand on
fraternity
Pepsi supports Carolina
Covenant with vendor contract
Ozick mines Dickens for
novel inspiration
Grant to promote civic
education in schools
West House runs short
of survival options
Employee Appreciation
Event set for Nov. 5
SECC: 'Make a difference in
the lives of others'
The University
will kick off the 2004 State Employees Combined Campaign (SECC)
on Sept. 9.
The Carolina Kickoff event includes training
and lunch for volunteers and will culminate with a charity fair
at 1 to 4 p.m. on the third- and fourth-floor boxes of Kenan
Stadium. Representatives from 50 popular SECC agencies will
set up booths, desserts will be served, and all employees are
encouraged to attend.
Organizers are confident that employees
will exceed last year's contributions of nearly $1.1 million
for local, state and national non-profit organizations donated
through the University's charitable giving campaign, which runs
through Oct. 31.
"Carolina's strong track record
of success with the combined campaign is a tribute to our own
employees," Chancellor James Moeser said. "Their contributions
make a difference in the lives of others in our community and
around the state."
"UNC-Chapel Hill is crucial to the
statewide campaign," said campaign chair Robert Blouin, dean
of the School of Pharmacy. "Last year Chapel Hill gave 45 percent
of the total $2.45 million that was raised by all the state
universities and schools, and one-fourth of the $4.2 million
raised statewide."
Surpassing last year's impressive standard
will pose a challenge. "Giving will be difficult for many staff
and faculty members who have seen their paychecks reduced through
higher health insurance costs and modest state-funded raises,"
he stressed.
Despite those hardships, Blouin emphasized
the importance of the campaign. "Many UNC-Chapel Hill employees,
as well as citizens of our great state, benefit from the services
of the charitable organizations under the SECC umbrella," he
said.
Campaign organizers said their goal is
100-percent participation by all employees, no matter the size
of the gift.
Pledge forms and handbooks listing agency
descriptions will be distributed to employees through captains
and division leaders following the kickoff. More than 900 charities
are on the SECC list, and employees can choose specific charities
for their donations or make undesignated gifts.
"Employees here may not know it,
but the SECC at Carolina is recognized as a national model for
workplace giving campaigns," said Eric Wild, SECC regional coordinator.
"We are confident that this year will be the single most successful
effort in SECC history, and it all begins next Thursday -- everyone
is welcome."
For more information about the campaign,
including next week's kickoff and charity fair, contact Eric
Wild at 821-2886 or ericwild@ncsecc.org.
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Rankings reflect progress with
priorities
Carolina
ranked as the nation's fifth-best public university and a leader
in making education financially accessible to students, according
to "U.S. News & World Report" magazine.
Two "U.S. News" rankings -- best value
and least debt load -- helped affirm Carolina's standing among
the national leaders in student accessibility as the University
launches its innovative Carolina Covenant program this fall
for low-income students. (See related
story.)
The University also posted a 21-point
gain in the magazine's faculty resources category ranking, Carolina's
best showing in that category in five years. In measuring this
gain, the magazine considered snapshots including class size,
average faculty compensation in 2002-03 and 2003-04 and the
proportion of faculty who are full-time and with the highest
degree in their field.
Carolina showed particular progress in
reducing class size. In 2003, 51 percent of Carolina's course
sections enrolled fewer than 20 students. That was second among
Carolina's public peers and up from 40 percent in 2002.
"Carolina is making progress in
strategic areas that we have defined as critical to providing
a high-quality undergraduate education," said Chancellor James
Moeser. "These `U.S. News' rankings reflect only one assessment
of a university's quality. Our focus is on overall excellence
to benefit the people of North Carolina and beyond."
The "U.S. News" rankings are based on
a formula that weighs data including opinion survey responses
about academic excellence from peer presidents, provosts or
admissions officials; student retention rates; faculty resources
(ranging from class size to faculty compensation to faculty
credentials); student selectivity; financial resources; graduation
rates; and alumni giving.
University leaders see the magazine's
rankings more as a yardstick than as a compass. To support Carolina's
vision of becoming the nation's leading public university, the
University has developed its own clear priorities to help advance
that ongoing pursuit of excellence and to guide decisions about
investing resources.
These priorities, which include reducing
teacher-pupil ratios, are articulated in the Academic Plan and
Measures of Excellence, which the University developed in 2002
in consultation with the Board of Trustees.
For more information on these measures,
see www.unc.edu/depts/design/academic_excellence.
Among public campuses ranked by "U.S.
News," the University of California at Berkeley ranked first,
followed in a tie for second by the universities of Michigan
at Ann Arbor and Virginia. The University of California at Los
Angeles was fourth, followed by Carolina at fifth for the second
consecutive year. These same five campuses have either traded
or tied for the top five slots among publics for years.
Overall, Carolina ranked 29th -- the same
as last year -- among both public and private campuses. Other
top publics ranked overall between 21st (Berkeley) and tied
for 25th (UCLA).
Carolina ranked second among national
public campuses and 19th overall in "Great Schools, Great Prices,"
based on a formula determining which schools offer best value
by relating academic quality to the net cost of attendance for
a student who receives the average level of financial aid. Another
category -- least debt among students -- listed Carolina sixth
among public campuses and 11th overall with 24 percent of graduates
posting an average debt totaling just over $11,500 in 2003.
Thirty percent of Carolina undergraduates
received need-based financial grants in 2003. The University
awarded $160 million in aid to more than 13,500 students. Undergraduates,
on average, had two-thirds of their need met with scholarships
and grants and contributed the other third through loans and
work-study jobs. Most aid packages nationwide are closer to
two-thirds loans and one-third grants.
In recent years, when the University enacted
a campus-based tuition increase, it dedicated 35 percent of
the revenue to aid for needy students, and every needy student
received a grant to cover a campus-based tuition increase. The
average cumulative indebtedness of a graduating senior who borrowed
dropped from $13,700 in 2000 to $11,519 in 2003.
In other "U.S. News" rankings, the University's
Kenan-Flagler Business School tied for sixth with the Carnegie
Mellon University and the University of Texas at Austin among
undergraduate business degree programs. Kenan-Flagler tied for
third among public campuses.
"U.S. News" included Carolina in
a category called "programs to look for" -- highlighting outstanding
examples of academic programs that lead to student success.
Education experts, including staff of the Association of American
Colleges of Universities, helped identify these programs.
Carolina was listed among 15 campuses,
including four publics, with exemplary senior capstone experiences.
Such honors programs permit students to create a special senior
project integrating what they have learned.
Carolina was among 40 public and private
campuses cited for their first-year experiences programs, which
include first-year seminars and other programs bringing small
groups of students together with faculty and staff on a regular
basis. The University was one of 18 public campuses selected.
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Rocking laser shows return
to planetarium Sept. 2
The Morehead
Planetarium and Science Center will be rocking with some of
the biggest names in music beginning Sept. 2. Laser shows featuring
the works of Pink Floyd, the Beatles, Radiohead and the Beastie
Boys will return to the center for the first time in almost
a decade.
"People have been coming up to me
and asking when we were going to bring laser shows back," said
Holden Thorp, Morehead Center director. "We decided that it
would be a good idea to bring them back before we start renovations
on the building in 2006."
In the center's Star Theater dome, the
shows will engulf the audience with a combination of dramatic
laser images and different styles of music to produce a concert-like
atmosphere.
"Lasers are a medium unlike any
other," said Luke Donaher of LFI International, the laser show
provider. "Children especially respond to things they haven't
seen before, and lasers are a medium people don't come in contact
with often."
During their 12-week run, laser shows
will be offered Thursdays and Fridays at 8 and 9 p.m. and Saturdays
at 8, 9 and 10 p.m.
Matinee shows specifically geared to a
family audience will be offered Saturday and Sunday afternoons,
including a laser detective mystery that teaches about the solar
system, a humorous program about the science of time and a tribute
to the Motown sound. Show times are Saturdays at 11:30 a.m.,
1:30 and 3:30 p.m. and Sundays at 1:30 and 3:30 p.m.
Admission is $7.50 for adults and $5.50
for children, students and seniors. Morehead Center members
receive a $2 discount for each ticket.
More information is available at www.moreheadplanetarium.org
or by calling 962-1236.
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Nominations open for University
Teaching Awards
The University's
annual effort to identify and reward exceptional teaching is
under way. The University Committee on Teaching Awards urges
faculty and staff members to join students in submitting nominations
for several campuswide awards. The deadline for nominations
is Oct. 1. The award categories are:
Board of Governors' Award for Excellence
in Teaching -- This award is given by the Board of Governors
to a tenured faculty member on each UNC-system campus for excellent
and exceptional teaching at the undergraduate level over a sustained
period of time. If you nominate someone for this award, include
a current curriculum vitae.
Distinguished Teaching Awards for Post-Baccalaureate
Instruction -- Four awards are given to faculty members for
exceptional teaching of post-baccalaureate students.
Awards to faculty for excellence in undergraduate
teaching -- Five Tanner Awards, one Friday Award, one Sanders
Award and one Sitterson Award are given to full-time faculty
members.
Tanner Awards to Graduate Teaching Assistants
-- Five Tanner Awards are given to graduate teaching assistants
for excellence in undergraduate teaching.
Mentor Award for Lifetime Achievement
-- This award acknowledges lifetime contributions to teaching,
learning and mentoring beyond the classroom and is not limited
to traditional faculty. If you nominate someone for this award,
focus on his or her long-term impact on students.
The committee is chaired by Jean DeSaix,
Department of Biology. Call DeSaix at
962-1068 or e-mail jdesaix@email.unc.edu.
Debbie Stevenson, executive assistant to the provost, can also
assist with more information. Call Stevenson at 962-7882 or
e-mail debbie_stevenson@unc.edu.
More information and nomination forms
are available at www.unc.edu/teachawards.
Winners will be recognized at a basketball
game in early 2005 and will receive framed citations and checks
at the annual awards banquet in April.
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Task force follows through
on ideas
In the seven
months since the Chancellor's Task Force for a Better Workplace
issued its final report and recommendations, groups across campus
have spent hours working on the issues highlighted in the report.
Proposals have been completed for each of the recommendations,
and implementation of a number of the proposals is under way.
Highlights include:
Establishing
an ombudsman office, which was the top priority in the report.
This office will provide an informal mechanism for faculty and
staff to resolve employment-related concerns. Two ombudsperson
positions have been created, a search has been undertaken, and
finalists have been identified. Finalists for both positions
are expected to participate in open forums on campus this fall.
Office space also has been made available.
Jumpstarting
the computer loan initiative with $15,000 from Chancellor James
Moeser's 2003 bonus that he declined to accept.
Presenting
the first Student Undergraduate Staff Award. Student Government
created the award to recognize excellence in service to undergraduate
students. Jeffery "Butch" Garris, production manager for the
Carolina Union, received the inaugural award in April.
Holding a
summer job fair in April to identify summer jobs for children
of employees.
Creating an
emergency loan program with private funding.
Launching
a pilot program in the fall of 2005 to allow employees with
some college experience to earn undergraduate degrees as part-time
students. The pilot will include 10 full-time employees with
college experience who will take courses to complete their undergraduate
degrees while maintaining full-time University employment. These
employees will be admitted as junior transfer students and have
three years to complete their degrees under the program.
Expanding
the sliding-scale parking permit fee structure by adding an
additional tier for employees making $25,000 or less.
Enhancing
employee recognition programs. For example, two additional employees
received the C. Knox Massey Distinguished Service Awards this
year when the number of Massey Award recipients expanded from
four to six.
The Task Force Monitoring Committee, composed
of the committee chairs from the Task Force, was charged with
advising Moeser on the actions that should be taken to follow
through with the task force's proposals. Proposals have been
listed under short-, medium- or long-term priorities, based
on their complexity and the need for action from outside the
University to accomplish the recommendations.
More recently, Vice Chancellor of Finance
Nancy Suttenfield appointed an SPA Dispute Resolution Review
Committee, chaired by University law professor Glenn George.
The committee has been charged to review the existing grievance
process for SPA employees, which was one of the recommendations
made by the task force.
George said the committee will make recommendations
for changes and improvements in the current process, consistent
with state policy. The group hosted open forums on Aug. 27 and
Aug. 30 to give employees an opportunity to share their comments,
concerns and suggestions.
Glenn said employees can still send their
comments to the committee at unc-grievanceanddispute@listserv.med.unc.edu
or ggeorge@email.unc.edu
or by campus mail address to Glenn George, CB# 3380. She added
that input is welcome.
Wellness is another emphasis area included
in the list of short-term recommendations. Proposals include
greater access to health screening, reinstating wellness classes
and working with campus dining facilities to offer healthy alternatives
for lunch. The University will review options to integrate these
and other wellness proposals into a more comprehensive program.
Co-chaired by Moeser and Employee Forum
Chair Tommy Griffin, the 27-member task force was made up of
a range of faculty, staff and students.
Moeser appointed the task force in response
to increased awareness of workplace issues at the University,
created when Barbara Ehrenreich's "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not)
Getting By in America" was chosen for the 2003 freshmen summer
reading program.
The summer reading selection, which examined
the nation's income gap, helped prompt these discussions at
a time when UNC and other state agencies faced budget problems.
Similarly, the financial struggles faced by housekeepers, groundskeepers
and other low-paid staff members served to remind the University
community that many of the issues Ehrenreich raised in her book
hit close to home.
Moeser formed the panel after discussions
with Griffin, Faculty Chair Judith Wegner and former Student
Body President Matt Tepper.
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UNC defends stand on fraternity
The University
is defending its nondiscrimination policy and its responsibility
to all student groups in a case involving Alpha Iota Omega,
a religious fraternity that has become the subject of a federal
lawsuit and new campus debate.
The lawsuit, filed Aug. 25 in U.S. District
Court in Greensboro, challenges the University's decision to
discontinue official recognition to the three-member fraternity
because it refused to follow the campus nondiscrimination policy.
Chancellor James Moeser affirmed the University's
position in a statement responding to the lawsuit by the Alliance
Defense Fund, an Arizona-based legal defense organization.
"This University strongly encourages
students to nurture their moral, spiritual and religious lives,"
Moeser said. "We have nearly 5,000 students who belong to our
42 recognized religious student groups, the overwhelming majority
of them being Christian. We are a public institution, and we
cannot discriminate. That's the law. And that's why we are very
comfortable with the position that we've taken on this issue.
Membership in recognized student groups
must be open to all students on a nondiscriminatory basis, he
said.
"We think our position strikes the
right balance between First Amendment rights to freedom of association
and the rights afforded by the 14th Amendment and the North
Carolina Constitution to freedom from discrimination," Moeser
said.
Moeser staked out the University's position
in an Aug. 12 letter responding to allegations by the Foundation
for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), a Philadelphia-based
advocacy group. (Copies of the response and allegations by FIRE
and the alliance are posted at www.unc.edu/news/FIRE.html.)
U.S. Rep. Walter B. Jones, a Republican from the state's Third
District, has asked the U.S. Department of Education's Office
of Civil Rights to look into the fraternity's complaint.
When the University recognizes student
groups, it provides their members with priority access to University
facilities for meetings and events as well as the right to seek
student activity fee funding from the Student Congress, officials
said. University recognition requirements include provisions
that the groups agree to abide by the campus nondiscrimination
policy by allowing membership and participation without regard
to age, race, color, national origin, religion, disability,
sex or sexual orientation.
University officials said they tried to
work with the leaders of the fraternity to resolve the recognition
issue while still honoring their mission of providing leadership
and outreach to the campus Greek community through evangelism
and mentorship. Fraternity members refused, setting the stage
for the current debate.
Currently, the University has 595 recognized
student organizations on campus that adhere to the University's
nondiscrimination policies. Alpha Iota Omega is not banned from
campus. Because of its refusal to comply with the University's
policy, however, it is not eligible for privileges available
to recognized student groups, including priority access to University
facilities for meetings and funding from the University's Student
Congress.
The Campus Ministers' Association has
approved a statement endorsing the University's practices. Signed
by clergy from eight denominations, it says none of them "has
experienced discrimination based on our particular form of religious
expression by the University. Not accidentally, none of our
groups have within their by-laws exclusive clauses that require
a particular religious affiliation for membership."
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Pepsi supports Carolina Covenant
in vendor contract
Pepsi Bottling
Ventures LLC has been awarded the University's preferred vendor
contract for soft-drink services through a competitive proposal
process.
As part of its proposal, Pepsi became
the largest donor to support the University's groundbreaking
Carolina Covenant initiative benefiting low-income students
by pledging a $1.5 million gift.
In August, Pepsi assumed campuswide beverage
vending rights for most University facilities through that five-year,
$5.25 million contract. (The terms of that contract are similar
to one that had been held for nearly a decade by another vendor.)
In addition, Pepsi committed the gift to support student scholarship
programs, and University officials then designated the Carolina
Covenant program as the recipient.
The Carolina Covenant makes a Chapel Hill
education possible debt-free for academically qualified low-income
students. (See story on page 1.) Carolina became the first major
U.S. university to announce plans for such a program last October.
Since then, several public and private campuses nationwide,
including Harvard University and the University of Virginia,
have created similar programs.
Beginning this fall, eligible incoming
freshmen who qualify for the Carolina Covenant can graduate
without borrowing if they work on campus 10 to 12 hours weekly
in a federal work-study job. Carolina will meet the rest of
those students' needs through a combination of private gifts
such as Pepsi's, as well as federal, state, University and other
privately funded grants and scholarships.
"We thank Pepsi Bottling Ventures
for this generous gift to help support the Carolina Covenant
and to provide life-changing opportunities to deserving students
seeking a Carolina degree," said Chancellor James Moeser. "We
have been heartened by widespread interest in this program.
Prospective students and parents have heard our message about
accessibility. And supporters such as Pepsi Bottling Ventures
will ensure the Carolina Covenant helps students and families
from North Carolina and beyond for the long term."
Said Keith Reimer, president and chief
executive officer of Pepsi Bottling Ventures LLC, "Pepsi is
pleased to be a partner with the University and to be associated
with an innovative initiative like the Carolina Covenant. This
program is making a college education at one of the nation's
leading universities possible for talented students."
Under the new contract, Pepsi agreed to
provide fountain, canned and bottled beverage products on campus.
The contract covers beverage vending machines and fountain drink
machines across the campus, and some bottled and canned products
in convenience stores and snack bars. The contract also covers
vending machines in athletic facilities, but not game-day concessions
in athletic venues.
Pepsi's gift counts toward the University's
Carolina First campaign goal of $1.8 billion. Carolina First
is a comprehensive, multi-year private fund-raising effort to
support Carolina's vision of becoming the nation's leading public
university.
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Ozick mines Dickens for novel
inspiration
"Bull's Head Book Notes" features
book reviews by Erica Eisdorfer, manager of the Bull's Head
Bookshop in the Student Stores.
"Heir to the Glimmering World" by
Cynthia Ozick
Strands,
some dark, some glittering, some invisible, connect the world
to itself. This is one explanation for the fact that Cynthia
Ozick's wonderful novel, "Heir to the Glimmering World," is
newly published, just now, just in time for the School of Government's
Sept. 9 dedication of its new beauty spot: the Nanette Mengel
Garden. Let me be clear: Here, Charles Dickens is the filament.
Nanette Mengel, beloved teacher, spent productive years in the
`60s at Berkeley writing a dissertation on Mr. Dickens. Cynthia
Ozick used that same author as her inspiration for "Heir to
the Glimmering World," an unabashedly Dickensian novel, which
means that she paid attention to language, that she wound a
heck of a story, that she wasn't ashamed to use a little well-placed
coincidence and that she orphaned her main character early and
to good effect.
Nanette read Dickens for his delicious
melding of wit and dark psychology. In "Heir to the Glimmering
World," Ozick delivers the same mix. It's 1935, and the orphaned
Rose signs on as amanuensis to Rudolf Mitwisser, who might actually
need a nanny or housekeeper -- who can tell in such chaos? Mitwisser
is the world's expert in Karaism, an ancient religious sect.
His wife, formerly a physicist, who seems now to have lost her
mind, may or may not be the mother of Schrodinger's love child.
Their children bounce off walls, fall down stairs, break things,
howl. And here's the best part: The whole family is indebted
to -- more, completely dependent upon -- a mysterious benefactor,
James A'Bair (who is modeled by Ozick on the real-life Christopher
Robin). The whole thing is sensational.
Witty and amusing? By all means. Light?
Oh no. Like Dickens, whose writing was constantly backshadowed
by his own squalid childhood, Ozick has her demon, and it's
the Holocaust, which colors everything she writes and which
looms and lurks in this novel, too, though it remains unnamed.
Nowadays, Dickens is often pish-toshed:
a little too obvious, a trifle sentimental. But it's his ability
to acknowledge and describe the dark side of the moon that's
made his books last so long. Ozick, unashamed of that brilliant
form, The Novel, has sniffed at the prevailing too too moderne
view. "Heir to the Glimmering World" is her homage to him in
that she does beautifully what he did so well: Like gardeners,
they planted and pruned and trimmed and turned chaos into beauty.
"Heir to the Glimmering World" is published by Houghton Mifflin.
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Grant to promote civic education
in schools
The N.C.
Civic Education Consortium, a non-partisan partnership in the
School of Government, received a national grant in August to
promote civic learning.
The Campaign for the Civic Mission of
Schools awarded six $150,000 grants through a rigorous national
competition, with the six selected coalitions chosen from 36
state proposals. Each grant covers a two-year period beginning
in November and will help support the work of state-level coalitions
organized to advance civic learning.
The N.C. Civic Education Consortium will
work with several state and national partners, including the
N.C. Department of Public Instruction and the National Center
for Learning and Citizenship, to conduct two pilot studies of
best practices in civic education.
The pilot work in Duplin County Schools
will identify and evaluate new forms of civic education assessment
and accountability, while a project in Charlotte-Mecklenburg
Schools will develop model current events resources for teachers
that will be made available statewide.
"This is a milestone for a campaign
that's only six months old," said David Skaggs, the campaign's
executive director. "Over the next two years we expect these
state coalitions to show what can be done to restore civic learning
to a central place in our schools."
The campaign is a national initiative
whose mission is to prepare America's young people to be informed
and active citizens in U.S. democracy. The Carnegie Corp. of
New York and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation fund
the campaign; the Council for Excellence in Government, in partnership
with the Academy for Educational Development, manages the initiative.
"The North Carolina Civic Education
Consortium is excited about the opportunity provided by this
grant," said Debra J. Henzey, consortium director. "It will
assist us in filling gaps in our knowledge of best practices
that promote life-long civic engagement and in giving policymakers
better information on decisions that support these practices."
More information on the Campaign for the
Civic Mission of Schools is available at www.civicmissionofschools.org.
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West House runs short of survival
options
The University
has taken a firm position against the 69-year-old West House
remaining in its current location after 2006.
Earlier this year, a group calling itself
the West House Coalition formed to mobilize support for keeping
it in the northwestern part of campus.
The group also explored the possibility
of having the building moved, but abandoned the idea after learning
the move would cost $500,000 or more. University officials say
they would permit the move, but would not fund it.
More recently, the group enlisted the
support of N.C. Sen. Ellie Kinnaird, who in an Aug. 12 letter
to Chancellor James Moeser asked him to meet with her and other
West House supporters to "discuss what further steps" could
be taken to resolve the matter.
Moeser, in an Aug. 18 letter, told Kinnaird
that he did not believe the University Board of Trustees would
consider a recommendation to redesign the Arts Common, were
he disposed to make such a recommendation.
He added, "My position on the matter is
equally firm."
The West House is a 1,140-square-foot,
one-story brick house that sits in the middle of a future Arts
Common conceived as part of the campus master plan approved
three years ago. The arts common plan has been unanimously approved
and endorsed by the Chancellor's Buildings and Grounds Committee
and the Board of Trustees.
More specifically, Moeser told Kinnaird
in his letter, "West House sits atop the site where the underground
parking deck meets the utility lines, which will be adjacent
to the new music building. There is absolutely no possibility
of it remaining at the site."
Kinnaird and others have argued that saving
the building is worthwhile because it is part of a broader effort
of historical preservation.
But Moeser, in his letter to Kinnaird,
said he was a "staunch supporter of historic preservation."
Since he arrived on campus four years ago, a historic preservation
specialist and a landscape architect have been hired to ensure
that mistakes are not made at a time of rapid change.
"Some of the proponents of saving
West House have charged that the University is uncaring about
its history," Moeser said in the letter. "Surely, no one could
look at our agenda for preservation and restoration and honestly
make that charge. We are spending millions to restore truly
important campus landmarks from the late 19th and early 20th
centuries. The 69-year-old West House does not fall into the
same category. It is, by contrast to these larger, more architecturally
and historically significant buildings, a small and interesting,
if undistinguished, curiosity built by a wealthy industrialist
to house his son while he was a Carolina student."
Efforts are under way to restore such
landmark buildings as Memorial Hall and the Campus Y, and the
renovation of such buildings as Murphey Hall has already been
completed, he said.
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Employee Appreciation Event
set for Nov. 5
The Office of Human Resources, Employee
Services Department has announced that Nov. 5 is the scheduled
date for the 2004 Employee Appreciation Event. The event’s
focus will be on educational and advancement opportunities for
University faculty and staff.
Concurrent sessions related to financial planning, professional
development and leadership will be offered at various campus
locations throughout the day. University departments will present
information about their services during a morning session.
There will also be an afternoon gathering
in the Student Union courtyard (weather permitting) that will
feature guest speakers and live entertainment. The Student Stores
Bookstore and TIAA-CREF will again co-sponsor a 35 percent discount
on merchandise as part of the appreciation event.
The Employee Appreciation Committee is
planning the event. Committee members are representatives of
faculty and staff from a cross section of campus.
More details will be appearing in
future "Gazette" issues, including detailed schedules
and topics of sessions. The Employee Services Department will
organize the event. Direct any questions or comments to Employee
Services at 962-1483.
