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 Winston Crisp tapped to lead
student affairs
Marchionini named dean of SILS
Derickson begins March 15 as
assistant provost,
University registrar
McNeil, Manning and Hashemi receive women’s advancement
awards
Winston B. Crisp, a 1992 law school alumnus who has served as
Carolina’s assistant vice chancellor for student affairs since 2005, has been
appointed vice chancellor for student affairs, effective May 10. The Board of
Trustees approved the appointment Jan. 28.
“Winston Crisp has worked the past 18 years to make Carolina
an even better place for our students to experience,” said Chancellor Holden
Thorp. “He has great leadership qualities, and we’re excited about the ideas
and passion he has for Carolina and this
new role.”
Crisp will succeed Margaret Jablonski, who has been vice chancellor
since May 2004. He will lead a division that works to create and maintain an
institutional climate that fosters learning, development and a strong sense of
community for Carolina students. He will oversee policies, programs and
services for more than 28,000 undergraduate, graduate and professional school
students.
The student affairs division has about 360 permanent
employees and more than 1,200 student staff members. Student affairs manages
about a third of all campus buildings and more than a dozen departments,
including Campus Health Services, Campus Recreation, Campus Y, Carolina Union,
University Career Services, Counseling and Wellness Services, Dean of Students,
Disability Services, Housing and Residential Education, Information Technology,
LGBTQ Center, and New Student and Carolina Parent Programs.
As assistant vice chancellor for student affairs, Crisp has
been responsible for student affairs programs and advising, a variety of
student services – ranging from counseling to dispute resolution and
judicial programs to Greek affairs – and various aspects of enrollment
management, student records and registration, and parent relations.
He has been an adviser to and leader of the University’s
student crisis team, and he has contributed to efforts to strengthen the
student judicial and honor system and leadership development program. He has
co-taught a first-year seminar on policy and practice in American universities,
as well as classes on legal writing, advocacy, the 14th Amendment and due process.
In 2007, Crisp spent the summer at Virginia Tech as a UNC
volunteer on loan, helping his counterparts in student affairs there with
recovery efforts after the campus shooting tragedy and learning how their
experiences could benefit Carolina.
Previously, Crisp spent 12 years at the School of Law. He
served as its first full-time assistant dean for student affairs and the first
associate dean for student services. In those roles, he played a key role in
strengthening coordination among the academic program, financial management,
outreach and student support.
Gary Marchionini, Cary C. Boshamer Professor in the School
of Information and Library Science, has been named the school’s dean, effective
April 1. The Board of Trustees approved the appointment Jan. 28.
A Carolina faculty member since 1998, Marchionini heads the
school’s Interaction Design Laboratory and chairs its personnel committee. He
serves on the Campus Research Computing Committee and has helped lead numerous
campus initiatives. Last spring, he was nominated by his students and selected
as the school’s Outstanding Teacher of the Year.
“Gary Marchionini is a distinguished faculty member whose
extraordinary academic background is internationally renowned,” said Chancellor
Holden Thorp. “He is the ideal person to lead our School of Information and
Library Science into this new decade when information and technology have never
been more important in our society.”
Marchionini is president of the American Society of
Information Science and Technology, an international organization of
professionals who focus on improving access to information. He is the chair of
the National Institutes of Health/National Library of Medicine’s Biomedical
Library and Informatics Review Committee and from 2002 to 2008 served as
editor-in-chief of the Association for Computing Machinery’s “Transactions on
Information Systems.” He is editor of the Morgan-Claypool book series,
“Information Concepts, Retrieval and Services.”
Marchionini has published widely on topics related to
digital libraries, information seeking, usability of personal health records,
multimedia browsing strategies and personal identity in cyberspace. He has been
awarded numerous grants from leading foundations and research awards from
companies including Microsoft, IBM and Google. He is the author of “Information
Seeking in Electronic Environments,” part of a Cambridge University Press
series.
He will head a nationally ranked school with 26 faculty
members who teach about 330 graduate students and 58 undergraduates. Before
coming to Carolina, Marchionini was a faculty member at the University of
Maryland for 15 years, and from 1978 to 1983 he taught and conducted research
at Wayne State.
Barbara B. Moran, who was dean of the school from 1990 to
1998, has served as interim dean since May 2009 when José-Marie Griffiths
completed her term as dean.
“We’re grateful to Barbara for providing dedicated
leadership to the school during the search,” said Bruce Carney, interim
executive vice chancellor and provost. “Her calm and steady guidance through
this transition has once again demonstrated her amazing skills as dean and her
deep devotion to the school and to Carolina.”
Derickson begins March 15 as
assistant provost,
University registrar
Christopher Derickson, now the University’s associate
registrar, will begin work as assistant provost and University registrar on
March 15.
In his current position, Derickson has served as the team
leader for student records for ConnectCarolina, the University’s new integrated
administrative computer system that ultimately will replace disparate aging
systems managing student services, human resources, payroll and finance.
“We are fortunate to have someone with Chris’ exceptional
capabilities, and who knows Carolina so well, lead the registrar’s office,”
said Bruce Carney, interim executive vice chancellor and provost.
“What attracted us to Chris was his vision for the overall
responsibilities of his office and his dedication to the staff and the many students,
faculty and alumni the office serves. His success with ConnectCarolina has
required a lot of coordinated and collegial work, and he understands very well
that launching a system of this magnitude is only the beginning.”
As registrar, Derickson will serve as part of the provost’s
leadership team. His responsibilities include overseeing the registration,
assignment of class space, collection of grades, reporting of academic
eligibility, administration of the graduation process and issuance of transcripts
for Carolina’s 18,000 undergraduates.
Before coming to Carolina in 2007, Derickson worked at
American University from 1994 to 2007, last serving as supervisor of academic
records services and special adviser to the university registrar.
He received his master of arts in history at AU and is
working on completion of his doctoral degree in history there as well. He
received his bachelor’s degree, also in history, from Rutgers University.
Roberta Kelly has served as interim registrar since July
2009 when Alice Poehls, who had been registrar since 2005, resigned.
McNeil, Manning and Hashemi receive women’s advancement
awards
Bruce Carney, center, interim executive vice chancellor and
provost, is flanked by winners
of the University Awards for the Advancement of Women, at left, Parastoo
Hashemi and
Melinda Manning, right. Laurie McNeil also was an award recipient but was
unable to attend the ceremony. The awards were presented Feb. 8.
A reception was held Feb. 8 for three winners of University
Awards for the Advancement of Women as part of the campus’s kickoff of Women’s
Week 2010.
Honorees were Laurie McNeil, professor of physics and
astronomy; Melinda Manning, assistant dean of students; and Parastoo Hashemi, a
postdoctoral research associate in the chemistry department.
McNeil joined the physics and astronomy department in 1984
as the first, and sole, female tenure-track member. As chair of the department
for five years, McNeil helped to double the number of female faculty members in
her department. She secured funding from the National Science Foundation for
the University to establish a program to prepare science majors to be excellent
high school science teachers.
McNeil was also one of the original Working on Women in
Science scholars – known as WOWS – a program designed to foster the
careers of women in science that she helped propose. McNeil has chaired the
American Physical Society Committee on the Status of Women in Physics and was a
member of the U.S. delegation to the first International Union of Pure and
Applied Physics conference on Women in Physics.
Manning is an adviser for Project Dinah, a UNC women’s
safety and empowerment organization dedicated to anti-violence and sexual
assault awareness and equality in all relationships. She has facilitated HAVEN
trainings (Helping Advocates for Violence Ending Now) and information sessions
for students during orientation, and she helps student advocates across campus.
Manning helps and supports survivors of sexual assault by
promoting the hiring of an interpersonal violence coordinator and aiding
survivors in the readjustment to campus life.
Hashemi, whose research focuses on the development of
microsensors and their use to measure chemical events in the brain, seeks out
talented young women to fill undergraduate and graduate positions in her lab.
At least six of these undergraduate women
have gone on to apply to medical, public health, neuroscience and biomedical
engineering graduate programs. Hashemi has supported their
independent projects and presentations of their work at major neuroscience and
chemistry
conferences, where young women are a notice-able minority.
She is currently establishing a foundation that supports
mentors in recruiting and training young women in scientific research.
The awards, created in 2006, are sponsored by the offices of
the Chancellor and the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost.
The faculty and staff winners each receive an award of
$5,000; the student scholar receives $2,500. The awards honor individuals who
have mentored or supported women on campus, elevated the status of women or
improved campus policies for them, promoted women’s recruitment and retention,
or promoted professional development for women.
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