July 18, 2007 edition
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Massey Award winner Kirk Pelland has nurtured Carolina's grounds for 25 years. At times it's been like waging war on the elements.
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Plans for Carolina North are still on the drawing board, but
they have been whittled down from three to one. That plan — the
“East-West” draft conceptual plan — will be presented to the University Board of Trustees
next week.
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The goal of PACE is simple enough. It’s about streamlining
administrative functions to free up money to support the University’s core
academic priorities: teaching, research and public service.
The steps needed to reach that goal extend what we already
do at Carolina, said Dwayne Pinkney, assistant vice chancellor for finance and
administration. “It’s about trying to do our jobs smarter,” Pinkney said.
“That’s really a matter of course for our campus as we have looked for ways to
do business as effectively and efficiently as possible.”
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When Chris Payne hired on in fall 2000 to serve as
Carolina’s director of student housing, he found himself on the cusp of what
would become the most prodigious and sweeping period of campus construction in
University history.
That November, voters approved higher education bonds that
helped fuel much of the growth, and University officials put much thought into
the design, location and function of the new buildings. That thinking was
captured in a new master plan approved the following spring. The plan, among
other things, called for a transformation of south campus that would make it as
fully hospitable and service-friendly to students as it was already to hospital
patients.
One cornerstone of that transformation, Payne said, now
stands at the corner of Manning Drive and Ridge Road in the form of the Student
and Academic Services Buildings, or SASB. When the two-building complex opens
this fall, it will provide an array of vital student and academic services,
officially 15 in all, in a total of 116,000 square feet.
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The University Steering Committee for Worker Health, Safety
and Wellness has
begun distributing an Employee General Interest Survey to a random sample of
employees. The survey is part of a yearlong assessment of campuswide worksite
wellness needs, opportunities, resources and interests.
“It is important that the survey reflect the opinions of
every segment of the campus, and every response is extremely valuable. We want
to obtain a high response rate, so we’re asking every employee who receives a
survey to take a few minutes to complete it,” said Ben Birken, steering
committee coordinator.
At the end of the survey, respondents will have an option to
enter a drawing to win a prize.
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