Staff and faculty helped
Arts Everywhere Day
come to life.
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honors those who
serve others.
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Important and, in some cases, little-known historic
relics from across North Carolina are available world-wide,
thanks to the dedicated librarians of the North
Carolina Digital Heritage Center in Wilson Library.
For its work, the center is one of 29 finalists for the
2018 National Medal for Museum and Library Service
to be awarded later this month. The medal, the nation’s
highest honor given to museums and libraries by the
Institute of Museum and Library Services, recognizes
exceptional service to the community and honors orga-nizations
that make a difference in the lives of individu-als,
families and communities.
On April 11, the institute and the center invite sup-porters
to share via social media how the center makes
a difference in their lives and communities. Use the
hashtags #ShareYourStory and #IMLSmedals and tag
@NCDHC on Twitter, @NCDigitalHeritageCenter
on Facebook.
PUTTING HISTORY ONLINE
On a recent day in the center, Marty Tschetter, local
history librarian at the Wayne County Library, arrives
with a 1920s-era poster appealing for donations to fund a
building to honor local people who died in World War I.
Carefully handling the poster, technician Jay
Mangum secures it for photographing behind a
large clear plate. A couple of clicks later, and the poster
is one step closer to its place on the center’s website,
DigitalNC.org (See the scan on page 11).
The poster is an example of the center’s digitiza-tion
work for North Carolina’s museums, libraries
and archives. The center publishes each image in a
highly searchable form along with information on its
background and importance for the public to access at
DigitalNC.org for free.
Local to worldwide in a couple of clicks Outstanding service earns
six employees prestigious
Massey Awards
Six employees at Carolina have been selected by Chancellor Carol L. Folt
to receive the 2018 C. Knox Massey Distinguished Service Awards, one of
the most coveted distinctions earned by faculty and staff.
“These amazing people, through their hard work and dedication, day in
and day out, create the Carolina we love,” Folt said. “They are incredible
community builders and we thank them for their service and commitment
to excellence.”
The late C. Knox Massey of Durham created the awards in 1980 to
recognize “unusual, meritorious or superior contributions” by University
employees. In 1984, he joined the families of his son, Knox Massey Jr., and
daughter, Kay Massey Weatherspoon, to create the Massey-Weatherspoon
fund. Income from the fund supports the Massey Awards and Carolina Semi-nars.
The Massey Award winners will each receive a $10,000 stipend.
Chosen from campus-wide nominations, the Massey Award recipients will
be honored at a luncheon hosted by Folt on April 14, where they will receive
their award citation and stipend. This year’s recipients are:
Martina Kendrick Ballen, senior associate athletic director and chief
financial officer, department of athletics
Gregory J. Gangi, associate director for education, the UNC Insti-tute
for the Environment; associate teaching professor, environment
and ecology
Nan Kham, housekeeper, Taylor Hall
Ronald L. Mangum, clinical assistant professor, School of Social Work
Daryl Maurice Odom, housekeeper, the Kenan Center
Barbara Polk, deputy director and senior associate director, Office of
Undergraduate Admissions
These amazing people, through their
hard work and dedication, day in and
day out, create the Carolina we love.
CAROL L. FOLT
See CENTER page 11 See MASSEYS page 7
At the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center, librarians like program coordinator Lisa Gregory (right) and
graduate student and research assistant Julia Gootzeit digitize items for North Carolina’s museums, libraries
and archives.
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The Triangle Business Journal recently selected former University Board of Trustee member Sallie
Shuping-Russell as the recipient of its 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award.
Shuping-Russell was one of 26 women honored at the 2018 Women in Business Awards ceremony hosted by the Triangle Business Journal at the Pres­tonwood Country Club in Cary.
A renowned leader in investment and financial management, Shuping-Russell has helped found numerous companies and is currently serving as a senior adviser with BlackRock’s Private Equity Partners group. She was born in Greensboro and graduated from Carolina with a degree in English and political sci­ence. She then earned a master’s in business admin­istration from Col-
umbia University.
Shuping-Russell was a partner at Quellos Group before its acqui­sition by Black­Rock. Prior to that, she was a general partner at the venture capital firm Intersouth Partners. She
was also a founder and vice president of Duke Management Co., now DUMAC, where she was responsible for the private investment portfolio of Duke University for 15 years. She has been on the
boards of several entrepreneurial companies, in addition to serving as a director of CommonFund
Capital and the North Carolina Biotechnology
Center Board.
She has continued to devote her time to her alma mater throughout her life. She has served on the UNC Health Care System Board, the University’s Board of Trustees and is currently vice chairman of the UNC Investment Fund. She also chairs
the Carolina Research Ventures Board, which
invests in companies formed from technologies developed at Carolina. She received the Distin­guished Alumni Award from the General Alumni Association in 2011. In 2017, she was one of four alumni to be presented the Board of Trustees’ high­est honor, the William Richardson Davie Award, in recognition of her “dedication, commitment, loyalty and service.”
Check out those ‘70s hairstyles! The Clef Hangers, Carolina’s oldest a cappella singing group, celebrated its 40th anniver­sary with an April 7 concert. Since their founding in 1977, the UNC Clef Hangers have established themselves as a Carolina tradition, performing at some of the University’s biggest events from the Sunset Serenade before the first day of classes to Spring Commencement. Catch up on the group’s history with the video story at unc.edu/discover/clef-hangers-40 or stream their latest release, Castle on the Hill, at clefhangers.com.
Shuping-Russell receives lifetime achievement award from Triangle
Business Journal
Sallie Shuping-Russell
Retired pathology chair
Joe Grisham receives
lifetime achievement award
Blast from the past
CONTRIBUTED
DAN SEARS
Joe W. Grisham, Emeritus Kenan Professor and former chair of the department of pathology and laboratory medicine at Carolina (1973–99), has been named the 2018 recipient of the Jonathan B. Howes Lifetime Achievement Award from the University’s Retired Faculty Association.
The Howes award recognizes and encourages faculty contribu­tions both within the University and beyond in the wider community,
as exemplified by the career of the late Jonathan Howes, who was director of the Center for Urban and Regional Studies.
Grisham will accept the award and speak at the RFA general meeting at noon April 12 at the Friday Cen­ter. To register, visit the RFA website, uncrfa.web.unc.edu.
Grisham was a champion of faculty diversity, encouraging the hiring of women, as well as ethnic and racial minorities. During his tenure, the number of women in the department increased at a rate not seen before in any other department in the School of Medicine. Inspired by Grisham’s efforts, the dean of the School of Medi­cine at the time, Stuart Bondurant, charged a new committee with encouraging affirmative action in faculty hiring. Grisham also nurtured faculty members toward leadership roles, with four becoming chairs of pathology departments, including J. Charles Jennette, at Carolina.
Joe Grisham
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For Arts Everywhere Day, the second annual campus-wide celebration of the arts and creativity that calls attention to the strategic Arts Everywhere initiative that supports The Blueprint for Next, Carolina employees worked behind the scenes and in the spotlight with artists, students, campus departments and others to make the celebration a success. Here’s a look at a few.
Employees set the stage for Arts Everywhere Day
"Singing a lengthy German song cycle in this public venue while people were talking, eating lunch or just passing by, I was still able to see people really focusing in on the performance. People were walking through and, all of a sudden, they heard and saw this unexpected thing. Some were obviously thinking, ‘That’s my thing!’ and stayed, while others decided ‘That’s not my thing’ and moved on—but at least they were introduced to it. Andy, Keiko and I wanted to draw people in and help them understand it all at a high artistic level."
SUCHI MOHANTY, head of the House Undergraduate Library, who helped plan the installation of artist Mary Carter Taub’s installation Right Angles.
MARGO MCINTYRE, Coker Arboretum curator, who chose the site for the Seussian Igloo.
“It’s been fun to see the surprise element as people find the igloo. They’ll say, ‘Oh my, what’s that?’ Then they find the door and use it. We’ve had some families come by and some people studying in it. So it’s great to have some art in the arboretum and cool to participate in Arts Everywhere.”
MICHAEL PIERCE, accessibility specialist in Facilities Services, who handled ADA and accessibility preparations at
all Arts Everywhere sites.
“If a site has interactive parts, I made sure that at least one part of the art is accessible so that people with disabilities can experience it the same as people without a disability. I think Arts Everywhere and the interactive type of art is an important aspect of campus that allows people to have a variety of experiences. It confirms that art is not only something you look at, but you experience, like the interactiveness of the pianos, and that art also has function. It’s important that when we put this art out there that it’s accessible to everyone.”
“We were only halfway through installing the art when students started asking for chalk so they could write down their to-dos. It quickly caught their attention. I think it is a great way for the students or anybody to think deeply about what they would like to accomplish in their lives.”
“During the planning process with Mary, I explained the role the UL plays in student life, how we support student success and how students and faculty use our services and resources. The Undergraduate Library is a vibrant, creative space that runs off of student energy. When I browsed Mary’s online gallery, I was struck by the color and energy in her work and I thought it reflected the energy and creative spirit of the UL.”
TODD MCLAMB, facilities maintenance technician in the Frank Porter Graham Union, who helped assemble the Before I Die installation.
MARC CALLAHAN, baritone and assistant professor of music, who performed Die Winterreise
as ANDREW MYERS created art and pianist
KEIKO SEKINO accompanied.
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The Carolina Center for Public Service recognized sev­eral community-based programs led by Carolina faculty, staff
and students at its 2018 Public Service Awards celebration on April 9.
“Service to others is at the heart of how a great public univer­sity engages with communities and addresses issues of shared concern,” said Lynn Blanchard, the center’s director. “Recipients of this year’s Public Service Awards exemplify the best of how Carolina serves the public good. I am honored to recognize their meaningful and profoundly important work.”
Dorothy Holland, Boshamer Professor of Anthropology Emeritus, received the 2018 Ned Brooks Award for Public Service recognizing her long commitment to building col­laborations between the Uni­versity and the community that create new opportunities and generate academic excel­lence. Holland co-founded the Center for Integrating Research and Action and the Graduate Certificate in Partici­patory Research. CIRA took its social change research to grassroots organizations in the state, spurring new conversations about the best ways to advo­cate for issues. The GCPR creates opportunities for graduate students to develop research skills in partnership with commu­nities and provides them with substantive collaborative research experiences.
The Office of the Provost Engaged Scholarship Award was established in 2000 by then-Provost Dick Richardson to recognize extraordinary public service and engaged scholarship at Carolina.
Alice Ammerman, professor of nutrition in the Gillings School of Global Public Health and director of the Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, was recog­nized for engaged research for the Heart Healthy Lenoir Project. This National Institutes of Health-funded proj­ect was a community-based partnership between HPDP, Lenoir County and East Carolina University to reduce heart disease. Ammerman and her team worked with primary care practices to help patients control their blood pres­sure, increase physical activity and improve diet with heart-healthy recipes.
Jean Davison, associate professor in the School of Nurs­ing, was recognized for engaged teaching for develop­ing a service-learning course focused on migrant Latino
health in North Carolina. The course teaches fundamen­tal concepts of global health and included clinical teach­ing in North Carolina, Honduras and Nicaragua. Davison received an APPLES Service-Learning grant in 2015 and has expanded her local and global outreach course activities as a result.
Project READY: Reimagining Equity and Access for Diverse Youth received the engaged partnership award. Project READY is a grant-funded initiative of the School of Information and Library Science partnering with the Wake County Public School System and North Carolina Central University. These partners implemented a yearlong professional development series for school librarians and
educators working with them focused on racial equity. Librar­ians have since created innovative programs focused on
educational racial equity in local classrooms.
Recipients of 2018 Public Service Awards included, from left, Project READY, represented by research associate Casey Rawson;
Celeste Brown of the White Coats Black Doctors Foundation; and Brian Hogan, leader of three mentorship programs for North Caro­lina middle and high school students.
Public service awards honor mentorship, advocacy programs led by Tar Heels
JON GARDINER
The Robert E. Bryan Public Service Award recognizes undergraduate and graduate students, staff and faculty for exem­plifying outstanding engagement and service to the state of North Carolina.
Joseph Nail, a senior political science and economics major in the College of Arts and Sciences, was recognized for his work as co-creator of FairEd, a nonprofit that uses mentorship programs to provide high school students from low-income backgrounds resources and support during the college application process. Nearly three-quarters of those served are now attending a college or university.
Celeste Brown, a fourth-year medical student in the School of Medicine, is a founding member of the White Coats Black Doctors Foundation. Brown and four other medi­cal students created the foundation in 2015 to address the significant deficit of African-American physicians in North Carolina and the rest of the country. WCBD hosts network­ing and speaking events, conducts a mentorship program and offers a scholarship that offsets the cost of medical school applications.
Brian Hogan, a teaching associate professor in the department of chemistry, is also the director of the Caro­lina Covenant. Hogan was recognized for his leader­ship of three mentorship programs for North Carolina
middle and high school students. SOAR provides
near-peer mentors to young Latino students and encour­ages involvement in science and mathematics. SUCCEED bolsters STEM education in North Carolina schools by donating science experiment kits to classrooms. GLOW works to increase access to higher education among young African-American girls through positive role modeling and academic help. Hogan was a member of the Thorp Faculty Engaged Scholars Class IV.
Bryan Giemza, director of the Southern Historical Col­lection, was recognized for his work partnering with com­munity members in western North Carolina to create Maya from the Margins, a program educating Latino and indigenous students about the history of their roots and culture. The program paired North Carolina students
with families in Yucatan, Mexico, and implemented an exchange program that resulted in a showcase of student research displayed in both North Carolina and Yucatan. The program received recognition from the Rare Books and Manuscript Section of Carolina’s Wilson Library and the Society of American Archivists for its innovation
and creativity.
Law Students Against Sexual and Domestic Violence, a student organization within the School of Law, was
recognized for its work to protect victims from their abusers through the Ex Parte Project, including its partnership with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department. These students believe that the law has the power to bring about mean­ingful social change and that battling domestic violence is an important step toward ending violence against women. Each semester, Law Students Against Sexual and Domestic Violence sponsors a series of panel discussions and research projects to educate the community about the domestic vio­lence epidemic.
A complete list of award recipients is available at ccps.unc.edu/2018-public-service-award-recognition.
– Rhonda Beatty, Carolina Center for Public Service
Dorothy Holland
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WHAT’S A TYPICAL DAY LIKE IN YOUR JOB?
I would break down a typical day into a few areas: communication, education and advising, networking and
outreach. I do a lot of communicating through email and phone. I connect with students, faculty, staff, community partners, local agencies, nonprofits and municipalities. We are trying to build a robust online presence, so a lot of my work is on social media and two different websites. Through the education and advising piece of my job, we help students navigate living off campus. Through networking and outreach, we do a lot of neighborhood relation­ship work. I try to connect the University and the community at a student life level.
HOW DOES YOUR WORK SUPPORT CAROLINA’S MISSION?
The work that I do helps address the basic needs, such as living and safety, of students so that they can do the things that they came here to do intellectually. The University is also a public institution, which means that we have a clear responsibility to the public and the surrounding communities: Chapel Hill, Carrboro and beyond. I support the public in terms of students’ influence and impact in the community and trying to make those positive experi­ences for all involved. We serve our public by supporting our students’ lives off campus.
WHAT DO YOU LIKE MOST ABOUT YOUR WORK?
I really enjoy engaging with people, both students and community members. My dad was on the faculty here for 40 years. I grew up running around on this campus and living in this community, attending public school and cheering on the Tar Heels. For me, this is an ideal job because I get to connect both my professional life working in student affairs and higher education with my love for this institution and this community. I get to help students find a home in a place that’s been home and is home for me.
HOW DID YOU COME TO WORK IN THIS POSITION?
I previously worked as an assistant director in the Center for Student Involvement and Leadership at Appala­chian State University. I came to Carolina as a doctoral graduate assistant in what is now called Student Life and Leadership and continued that work in the Dean of Students office. In the 2010–11 academic year, I was hired as the senior associate dean and director of fraternity and sorority life and community involvement here at Carolina, a position I held until January of this year, when I was hired to this position.
WHAT WOULD OTHERS BE SURPRISED TO KNOW ABOUT YOUR JOB?
I think a lot of people are under the impression that I spend all day putting out fires and dealing with problems. In actuality, most of my job is actually fun and good stuff. It’s helping students be successful, helping people figure out solutions to problems and helping people have a great experience with the University or in the surrounding communities.
Carolina People is a regular feature in each issue of the Gazette that asks one of your fascinating colleagues five questions about the work they do for the University. Do you know someone with an interesting or unique job at Carolina? Please email your suggestions to gazette@unc.edu and put Carolina People in the subject line.
Aaron Bachenheimer
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF
OFF-CAMPUS STUDENT LIFE AND COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS
9 years working at Carolina
JON GARDINER
PEOPLE
Biological materials have complex mechanical properties that are difficult to reproduce using synthetic materials. An interna­tional team of researchers, led by Carolina chemistry pro­fessor Sergei Sheiko, has pro­duced a biocompatible syn­thetic material that behaves like biological tissues and changes color when it changes shape—like chameleon skin.
The research is featured in the March 30 edition of Science.
Sheiko said the research could have powerful implica­tions for the development of a new generation of biomedical devices. In order to produce a medical implant, for instance, the materials must have similar mechanical properties as a surround­ing biological tissue in order to mitigate inflammatory response.
“Our body can be viewed as an aging car that constantly needs replacement parts. Given the steadily aging population, this cre­ates a pressing need for better and more diverse materials for biomedical devices,” said Sheiko, the George A. Bush Jr. Distin­guished Professor of Chemistry. “One key demand is that these materials closely mimic the mechanics of living tissue.”
A number of biological tissues, including the skin, the intes­tinal wall and the heart muscle, have the characteristic of
being soft yet stiffening when they are stretched. The mechani­cal and optical properties of biological tissue also act in con­cert to serve living organisms, such as chameleons, amphib­ians, birds and butterflies. The tissues may adjust their colors
for camouflage.
“Until now, synergistically integrating mechanical and optical performance has been a big material design challenge because we are essentially trying to mimic the skin of James Cameron’s
Avatar: soft on touch, stiff upon deformation and colored for appeal or camouflage,” Sheiko said.
As outlined in the paper, “Self-assembled elastomers with molecularly encoded tissue-like softness, strain-adaptive stiffen­ing and coloration,” the research team has attempted to achieve this by controlling polymer architecture. They synthesized a physically cross-linked elastomer (polymer with elastic proper­ties) composed of a central block onto which side chains were grafted (like a bottle brush) and with linear terminal blocks at each end. They succeeded in encoding in this synthetic polymer both mechanical and optical properties of natural systems, a feat which had previously never been achieved. The polymer was found to be biocompatible and does not require the addition of chemical additives, e.g. solvent.
“The design-by-architecture approach reported in our paper will open the door for making materials as soft as brain tissue and as stiff as skin—ideal for direct use as implants for reconstructive surgery and drug delivery,” Sheiko added.
Watch a video that shows how the material’s color changes when it is stretched at college.unc.edu/2018/03/29/polymer-sheiko.
– College of Arts & Sciences
Chemistry professor develops polymers that mimic chameleon skin
Sergei Sheiko
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There is much more to the new campus mas­ter plan than bricks and mortar, and more sides to the Carolina Center for Public Service than merely doing good deeds.
At their March 29 meeting, the members of the University Board of Trustees got a primer on both from Anna Wu, associate vice chancellor for facilities and University architect, and Lynn Blanchard, director of the public service center.
Both Wu and Blanchard also tied their work to the broader mission of Carolina and The Blueprint for Next, the strategic framework for Carolina.
PLAN FOR THE FUTURE
Wu focused her talk on the process she and her office have engaged in over the past year to “knit together” the master plan with The Blue­print for Next.
What made the process unique, Wu said, was how the people working on the master plan joined with a campus-wide strategic liaison group to align the campus master plan with The Blueprint for Next.
Because of these efforts, Wu added, the mas­ter plan that will be presented in May will not be a wholesale building program, but a docu­ment that identifies target opportunities to add facilities and spaces to advance the blueprint’s signature initiatives.
“Together, we had a chance to identify the intersections of their objectives and explore how programmatic synergies, new transporta­tion resources and physical assets could be lever­aged for innovative and effective uses,” Wu said.
“This opportunity has really been a first for us. We have been able to dovetail the visionary aspects of the strategic framework into a
master plan that forecasts the future vision of the campus while also targeting operational improvement.”
ENGAGED SERVICE
For her part, Blanchard emphasized that the work being done at the Carolina Center for Public Service goes beyond simple vol­unteerism or what is typically thought of as
community service.
“We encompass that, but our work is really inextricably linked to all parts of the Univer­sity’s mission,” Blanchard said. “Our mission is to connect the energy and expertise of this
University to the needs of the community.”
Blanchard added that Carolina public service is really about “engaged service.”
“We like to use the term ‘engaged’ because it means that this is not something we do to
people, or even for people, but rather with
people and communities,” she said.
Chancellor Carol L. Folt said when she came to campus five years ago she heard stu­dents talking about APPLES. She didn’t know what it was then, but she does now. Of all the activities students can get involved with on
this campus, the APPLES Service-Learning
is one of the most profound because it trans­forms not only the communities that stu­dents work with but the students themselves,
Folt said.
Founded in 1990, APPLES has contin­ued to strengthen civic engagement by
bringing together students, faculty and communities in sustained and mutually
beneficial partnerships, said Blanchard. APPLES, which is now operated by the pub­lic service center, offers alternative breaks, a service-learning initiative, internships, courses and fellowships.
“This remains one of the few student-led, staff-supported service-learning programs in the nation,” Blanchard said. “And as stu­dents often point out to us, the hyphen is
critical—it is that vital link that connects service
to learning.”
BEYOND THE NUMBERS
Another student initiative that has grown over the years is the Buckley Public Ser­vice Scholar program that launched in 2003, Blanchard said. In the 2016 academic year, the program engaged 1,557 participants who together logged 197,736 hours in 88 counties in North Carolina.
Last year, the center conducted a survey ask­ing alumni involved in public service to talk about how it shaped their lives. One respon­dent wrote, “My public service experience at UNC was the most profound and important aspect of my college experience. It created a thread through my academic coursework that led me to my current position.”
Wrote another, “I am so grateful for those who ensured I would graduate as an informed citizen dedicated to using my own skills to improve the lives of others.”
– Gary Moss, University Gazette
Public service efforts and a new campus master plan
are both connected to a broader mission
Lynn Blanchard, Justin Williford and Hiwot Ekuban field questions during the Board of Trustees meeting March 29.
JON GARDINER
See more Board of Trustees coverage on page 12.
Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Bob Blouin and Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Winston Crisp have convened a student mental health task force to assess the scope of mental health care needs for students at Carolina.
Crisp announced the creation of the task force March 28 at the University Board of Trustees’ University Affairs Committee. Its charge will be to:
Assess the scope of mental health care needs at Carolina;
Evaluate existing or emerging best practices from a variety
of disciplines; and
Provide evidence-based guidance and recommendations
regarding campus-based policies and programs related to mental health care.
To optimize its effectiveness, Blouin and Crisp selected task force members who represent major areas of campus life, including academics, health, policy and student affairs, Title IX
and students.
Erica Wise, professor of clinical psychology and director of psychological services in the Department of Psychology, will chair the task force. Chuck Duckett, chair of the University Affairs Committee, will also serve on the task force, along with Crisp, Savannah Putnam, the incoming student body president, and Manny Hernandez, incom­ing president of the Graduate and Professional Student Fed­eration. In all, Crisp currently has recruited 19 task force members and hopes to add two more faculty members and an undergraduate.
During his presentation, Crisp shared an overview of Coun­seling and Psychological Ser­vices (CAPS), which provides therapy, psychiatry, referral
and academic intervention ser­vices for students and post-doctoral fellows.
Crisp said Carolina operates CAPS under a short-term thera­peutic model, which is the same approach used by all universi­ties across the country. Its underlying philosophic purpose, he added, has always been to support the academic mission
of the University, which translates into “keeping students
healthy and well-balanced enough to participate fully in the aca­demic enterprise.”
In order to meet that charge, CAPS is open from 8 a.m. to
5 p.m. on weekdays and has counselors on call 24-7, 365 days a year, Crisp said. “We are not necessarily going to have all your needs taken care of the day you walk into CAPS,” Crisp said, but all students are seen for initial evaluations the same day they walk in.
After initial consultation and evaluation, students may be offered individual short-term therapy to stabilize and evalu­ate, with no limit on the number of sessions offered; group
therapy; medication evaluation and maintenance; and aca-
demic interventions and crisis referral.
But that model, as a result of growing demand for services, has become increasingly strained, Crisp said. As a result, there is a growing debate across the country about whether that model should be expanded to include long-term care.
Mental health task force created to assess, meet growing demand
Winston Crisp
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MARTINA KENDRICK BALLEN
As umpire, judge, referee and timekeeper for finances in the
department of athletics, Ballen makes the calls that keep the
department’s budget bal-anced
and healthy. A Caro-lina
graduate, she joined the
staff in 1987 as director of
finance and rose through
the ranks to become senior
associate director of ath-letics
and chief financial
officer. She now adminis-ters
revenues totaling $95.5
million. In an environment
that embraces competition,
she is committed to equity,
and is described as caring,
deliberate, tough and a role model for integrity and heart. Bal-len
leads the department’s diversity committee and created and
helped launch Tar Heel Trailblazers honoring African­-
American
student-athletes who paved the way for those who follow. She
is past chair of the board of directors of the Autism Society of
North Carolina and in addition to her Massey Award, received
the 2011 Harvey Elliott Beech Outstanding Alumna Award.
GREGORY J. GANGI
Gangi is a powerful advocate for the environments that shape
life. He joined the faculty in 2000 and, with dual roles as associate
director for education in the
UNC Institute for the Envi-ronment
and associate teach-ing
professor in environment
and ecology, he connects
scientific curiosity to intel-lectual
capital across campus
and in the state, nation and
world. Gangi is renowned
for his dedication to his stu-dents.
He was previously
honored with a Tanner
Teaching Award and twice
recognized by the National
Academic Advising Association for innovative approaches to
mentoring. For more than a decade, Gangi has served as faculty
mentor and faculty coordinator for the University’s Scholars
Program. “He is an agent of institutional change at Carolina,”
wrote a colleague. Gangi’s classroom knows no boundaries. He
leads environmental field studies around the world, created dual-degree
programs in schools across campus and established the
UNC Clean Tech Summit to link students, their ideas and energy
to industry leaders and potential careers in the environment.
NAN KHAM
Clean workspace creates a healthy workplace, lifting spirits,
enhancing productivity and making a difference for staff, stu-dents
and faculty. With 11
years of service to the Uni-versity
and as a housekeeper
in Taylor Hall, Kham cre-ates
a community in which
teaching, research and ser-vice
thrive. More than 75
colleagues praised her many
professional and personal
contributions to their well-being,
noting her “above and
beyond” efforts to accom-modate
their work sched-ules
and address the unique
challenges of maintaining many laboratories in an aging build-ing.
“When Nan is working in Taylor, the surroundings become
brighter, literally,” praised a colleague. Outside her normal
responsibilities, Kham works with facilities services’ recycling
during student move-in day, contributes to staff activities and
volunteers in the Carolina Campus Community Garden. In the
words of a nominator, “She is extremely hard-working, efficient,
helpful and approachable.”
RONALD L. MANGUM
For Mangum, social work is more than a career; it’s a calling.
For 20 years, Mangum’s calling has been the highest and most
perfect expression of Uni-versity
outreach. Mangum
brings best practices to all
100 North Carolina coun-ties,
working with provid-ers
who partner with the
State Bureau of Investiga-tion
to rescue children in
home-based meth labs, and
who work in juvenile jus-tice
recidivism, child abuse,
neglect and substance use.
Most recently, he helped
build and implement North
Carolina's certified peer support specialist program, credential-ing
people who live in recovery to support others in need. “More
than 3,000 [North Carolinians] are engaged in meaningful vol-unteer
or paid employment — rather than being ‘disabled’—
due in part to the opportunities Ron has helped to create,” wrote
a nominator. Mangum also developed a classroom lecture link-ing
his personal experience as a black man in segregated Dur-ham
to his expertise working with vulnerable, marginalized and
oppressed populations. “I appreciate your candidness and gener-osity,”
wrote a student. “It is an inspiration.”
DARYL MAURICE ODOM
Senior administrators from the Kenan Center, Kenan-Flagler
Business School and the William R. Kenan Charitable Trust
nominated Odom in grati-tude
for his 30 years of
professionalism and good-will.
In the words of a col-league,
“Daryl’s devotion to
high standards, his respect
for his environment and his
collegial attitude toward
co-workers, staff and visi-tors
to the Kenan Center
make him a wonderful role
model for other employees.”
in the Order of the Golden
Fleece. In 1980, the Univer-sity
hired Polk to find and
secure the next generation of
its best and brightest. Now
deputy director and senior
associate director in the
Office of Undergraduate
Admissions, she was the driv-ing
force behind the Univer-sity's
policy to end early-decision,
putting Carolina at
the forefront of a movement
to release high school seniors
from a premature and binding academic commitment. Working
with the department of athletics, Barbara balanced
competing demands to identify student-athletes who are as
capable in the classroom as they are in their chosen arena.
Described as fair, honest, tireless, selfless and gracious, she
is especially valued for helping students and families in
distress. “Her good deeds have typically taken place behind the
scenes and out of the limelight,” wrote a colleague. “She has
done them out of love for the University and the goodness of
her heart.”
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Martina Ballen
Nan Kham Daryl Odom Described as“meticulous,”
Odom upholds the values
of integrity, accountability, service and trust. In addition to his
Massey Award and in recognition of his longstanding and out-standing
job performance, he was honored during the Employee
Forum peer recognition award ceremony with the call of
duty award for those who go above and beyond their job expec-tations.
In words of high praise, one nominator wrote, “To see
Daryl is to recognize that this is a person who takes pride in all
he does.”
BARBARA POLK
She is Carolina’s own, a 1979 graduate, and among the Uni-versity’s
finest—honored as an undergraduate with membership
Ronald Mangum Barbara Polk
Gregory Gangi
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In each of its next six issues, the University Gazette will
profile one of the 2018 Massey Award winners. Watch for
the stories in print and videos online at gazette.unc.edu.
Innovate Carolina presents the premier annual innovation experience at Carolina, the UNC Innovation Showcase, at 5:30 p.m. at the Friday Center. The showcasewill celebrate 40 standout innovators asthey share how they're solving importantproblems and bringing breakthroughideas to market. For more informationand to register, visit innovate.unc.edu/showcase18.
Acclaimed playwright Mike Wiley returns to PlayMakers with singer-songwriter Laurelyn Dossett for a musical journey across time, unearthing the cycles of history in a small North Carolina town. In Leaving Eden, cotton is king in the 1930s, pork processing keeps the town alive in 2016 and black and Latino citizens are the town’s economic backbone past and present. So why do they remain its most vulnerable to violence and hatred? As high-stakes elections loom during both time periods, the young, as ever, have a lot to fight for—and a lot to learn. For tickets, visit playmakersrep.org or call 919-962-7529. Faculty and staff get a 10 percent discount on tickets.
Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Brock Long will speak at Wilson Library at 4 p.m. as part of the Coastal Resilience Center’s Natural Hazards Resilience Speakers Series. Long will discuss lessons learned from the 2017 hurricane season and share a vision for emergency managers moving forward.
Tucker Carlson, a veteran political commentator with stints at CNN, PBS, MSNBC and FOX News, will give the 2018 Roy H. Park Distinguished Lecture for the UNC School of Media and Journalism at 11 a.m. at the Memorial Hall. Carlson’s remarks will be followed by a moderated conversation with associate professor Daniel Kreiss and several MJ-school students. Learn more at mj.unc.edu/ParkLecture2018.
John Harris, director of the Monadnock Institute of Nature, Place and Culture at Franklin Pierce University, will speak at 2:30 p.m. in Reeves Auditorium at the N.C. Botanical Garden. His talk, In the Footsteps of Spring: Retracing Naturalists Edwin Way Teale and John K.Terres, will offer highlights from the wild places thathe revisited from Teale’s 1947 odyssey of 17,000 miles,recorded in the book North with the Spring. Harris willsign copies of his book, Returning North with the Spring,at a reception following the lecture. The event is free, butpreregistration is required. Learn more at ncbg.unc.edu.
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GOT NEWS?
Carolina Public Humanities will host the 2018 E. Maynard Adams Symposium for the Humanities at Wilson Library at 5:30 p.m. The event will feature a keynote address by Jeremy Waldron, law professor at New York University. Waldron is a leading international expert on issues such as torture, hate speech, theories of human equality and
the concept of loyal opposition. The Adams Symposium is free and open to the public.The April Carolina Conver­sation, “What does it Mean to be a Public University?” will be held at 4 p.m. in the Aquarium Lounge in the Stu­dent Union. The gathering will explore the topic of pub­lic higher education through an engaging, participatory dialogue from a range of perspec­tives. Please join the conversation. All you need to bring is an open mind.
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The School of Media and Journalism, in collaboration with Duke Energy, presents Break Through: Communicating in a Crisis, a workshop to provide training, education and net­working for public information officers and others responsible for communicating with the public during emergencies. The free workshop will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Carroll Hall. For more information about the public panel discussion, please contact Michael Penny at mpenny@email.unc.edu.
A Grammy nominee with her own inimitable brand of country music, Raleigh native and UNC alumna Tift Merritt will perform at Memorial Hall at 8 p.m. The singer has been compared to Joni Mitchell and Emmylou Harris in a proud tradition that reaches back to Dusty Springfield and Bobbie Gentry. Tickets start at $25. To purchase tickets, visit carolinaperformingarts.org or call ticket services at 919-843-3333.
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Susan Hassol will give the Earth Week keynote address at 5:30 p.m. in the Genome Science Building, room 100.Hassol is an award-winning climatechange communicator, analyst andauthor known for her ability to translatescience into English. A reception will beheld prior to the address from 4:30 to5:30 p.m. This event is sponsored by theUniversity’s Three Zeros environmentalinitiative.
Carolina Hazards and Resilience Planners will hold a Climate Change and Resilience Symposium from 12:15 to 5 p.m. in the Genome Science Building, room GS200. CHRP is joining forces with the Carolina Climate Change Scientists, merging with their 5th Annual UNC Climate Change Symposium. The keynote speaker will be Susan White, executive director of North Carolina Sea Grant, North Carolina Space Grant and UNC Water Resources Research Institute.UNIVERSITY GAZETTE
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TASK FORCE from page 6
Over a five-year period from the 2012–13 to 2016–17 aca­demic years at Carolina, the number of walk-ins at CAPS increased by 104 percent and the number of urgent next-day follow-up appointments increased by 101 percent.
At the same time, academic interventions and telephone-web contacts both increased by 43 percent. Medical evalua­tions increased by 25 percent, while medication management increased 70 percent.
On average, a student will need to be seen three to five times in order to “stabilize the situation,” Crisp said. Counselors continue to meet with students as many times as necessary to address the problem they are facing.
But because CAPS is not set up to provide long-term thera­peutic care, students in need of such care must be referred to a community provider. Students have raised concerns about the high proportion of students—about 30 percent—who receive long-term care in this way, Crisp said.
The task force must also take into consideration the limited funding sources that CAPS has available to pay for services. Of
the CAPS operating budget of $2.66 million this fiscal year, $2.2 million was paid for with revenues from the student health fee,
he said.
For 2017–18, the student health fee was $381, with $87, or
23 percent, going to support CAPS and the remaining
77 percent going to pay for Campus Health Services and stu-dent wellness.
While adequate funding is an area of concern that must be addressed, Crisp emphasized one ongoing strength of CAPS are counselors who run it.
“I want to be the first person to stand here and say this is not about what is wrong with mental health care on this campus,” Crisp said. “There is nothing wrong with mental health care on this campus except they are overwhelmed.
“We can’t just be overwhelmed and accept that. We have to fig­ure out how to do more of this and how to do this better and that is what this task force and board is going to be about.”
Crisp said the task force will work through the summer before proposing a series of recommendations by the end of the year.
–Gary Moss, University Gazette
Former Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost James W. Dean Jr. has been named the next president of the University of New Hampshire, effective June 30.
After a national search, the UNH University System board of trustees unanimously selected Dean to become the univer­sity’s 20th president, UNH announced April 4.
“I am deeply honored to have the opportunity to serve as president of UNH at a time when all public uni­versities need to rethink our efforts to support the public through teaching, research and engagement,” said Dean. “The university has accom­plished so much already in the classroom, the labora­tory and the community, and it is well positioned to strengthen and even to redefine its role as a leading public research university.”
In announcing Dean as UNH’s next president, John Small, chair of the University System of New Hampshire board of trust­ees, said UNH is gaining an “experienced leader from one of the nation’s top public universities.”
“Jim is committed to and understands public higher education and the key role it plays in the state, the region and the nation,” said Small, who also headed the search committee. “He not only understands but embraces the importance and challenges of access, affordability, diversity and inclusion. He is also eager
to bring his experience in leadership and building relation­ships with businesses to the university for the benefit of our
students. Jim is thoughtful, approachable, visionary and an exceptional team builder—he will be an outstanding president for UNH.”
Dean stepped down as Carolina’s executive vice chancellor and provost in September 2017, after serving four years in the position. He was succeeded by Bob Blouin, longtime dean of the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy.
Dean was named provost after a highly successful 15-year
tenure on the faculty and administration at Kenan-Flagler
Business School; including serving five years as the dean
from 2008 to 2013. He also served as senior associate dean from 2007 to 2008, associate dean of executive development from 2002 to 2007 and associate dean of the MBA Program from 1998
to 2002.
As the University’s chief academic officer, Dean hired seven deans, helping 14 schools and the College of Arts and Sciences chart a strong course for the future. He bolstered faculty reten­tion efforts to ensure Carolina has the very best people teaching and conducting research. Dean also led the campus-wide efforts for Carolina’s 10-year review process for reaccreditation with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges.
Along with other senior leaders, Dean collaborated on a cross-campus effort to strengthen student advising to better meet
the needs of the diverse campus. With administrators in Finance and Operations, he began work to develop a new budget
model to modernize the ways the University allocates resources across campus.
Dean named president of University of New Hampshire
James W. Dean Jr.
DAN SEARS
Jim is committed to and understands public higher education and the key role it plays in the state, the region and the nation.
JOHN SMALL
At the April 4 meeting of the Employee Forum, members heard updates from human resources and others, reaffirmed its “commit­ment to a safe and inclusive campus commu­nity” in recognition of April as Sexual Assault Awareness Month and heard a first reading of a resolution on employee compensation.
Forum delegates also heard presentations from Tinu Diver, associate director for ethics education and policy management, and Delo­res Bailey, executive director of the community organization EmPOWERment Inc.
Bailey wanted delegates to be aware of
the resources available through EmPOWER­ment, such as providing affordable housing for those in need and support for minority and women entrepreneurs with limited access to traditional loans.
Diver informed delegates about the March 29 launch of unc.policystat.com. PolicyStat, a web-based, policy management application provides automated workflow for the creation, editing, review and approval of policies. The new website also serves as a central location for the publication of University policies.
Felicia A. Washington, vice chancellor for workforce strategy, equity and engagement, and several members of her staff had updates for delegates. Here’s a brief summary:
UNC System survey: Preliminary results from the recent University of North Carolina System employee survey show that all UNC System employees expressed strongest positive results for understanding how their job affects the University’s mission, having a good rela­tionship with their supervisor and being proud to be a part of the institution. The strongest negative responses were tied to adequate staff­ing, promotions and fair pay. Carolina had the lowest survey participation rate (38 percent).
SHRA career banding classification and compensation system: UNC Chapel Hill departments continue to provide SHRA employees increases for permissible reasons allowed by the state and UNC System. The System’s market trend analysis shows that UNC Chapel Hill has the greatest percentage of employees compensated at market or above. Ranges for employee salaries were established by the state in 2008 based on market rate salaries at the time, but the state has not imple­mented a comprehensive market rate review for career banding salary ranges since then. The UNC System has worked on a proposal to incrementally adjust the SHRA career band­ing ranges to be used by each institution in the UNC System. Final approval to any changes would have to be approved by the Office of State Human Resources.
SHRA employee appraisals: Performance reviews are being conducted now. Some units are participating in a pilot program to do reviews completely online, which could be adapted across campus as early as next year.
Afterward, delegate Bryan Andregg read a proposed resolution recommending that Chan­cellor Carol L. Folt direct the University’s Office of Human Resources to undertake a three-phase project to study employee com­pensation. The resolution will be read again, discussed and voted on at the forum’s May 2 meeting, which Folt is scheduled to attend.
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DigitalNC.org’s some 36,000 monthly visitors include gene­alogists, historians, K–12 students and the interested public, said Lisa Gregory, the center’s program coordinator. The site’s
visitors are mostly from North Carolina, with about 10 percent coming from foreign countries.
Established in 2009, the center has digitized more than 120,000 yearbooks, scrapbooks, newspapers, photographs and city directories from the past two centuries and more recent decades. Newer entries include newspapers published through the 1980s and 1990s such as Q-Notes, Charlotte’s LGBTQ news­paper and The Shore Line from Pine Knoll Shores. Many of the state’s approximately 800 cultural heritage centers lack the nec­essary equipment, time and personnel, so the center digitizes for them and hosts the content online. Its partners so far include 227 institutions in 79 counties.
Gregory said that the center increasingly focuses on collec­tions from underrepresented and underserved communities. “Traveling to Chapel Hill may be a burden for some, so we are try­ing things such as going into the field to scan materials or using a courier service to bring items here,” she said. “We really want to diversify and represent their voices.”
ON LOCATION SCANS
In September 2017, the center called for nominations for
cultural organizations that would receive on-location scanning. This December the Digital Heritage Center team took a field trip to Johnston County Heritage Center in Smithfield to do a ses­sion of on-location scanning. Armed with two flatbed scanners, laptops, external hard drives and an armful of cords and cables, team members set to work scanning and filling out metadata for over 200 photographs that are now available on DigitalNC.
The center is a collaboration between Carolina’s University Libraries and the State Library of North Carolina. The State Library contributes funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act. University Libraries operates the center, adding equipment and expertise from more than two decades of digitiza­tion activity.
One factor in the center’s success, Gregory said, is that she and her staff leave it to each contributing institution to select materi­als that will bring the most value to its local community.
Through the University Library’s Digital Production Center, the center has equipment to handle crumbling books and dis­tressed items with tender care: flatbed scanners for small, flat items like postcards, a sheet-feed scanner for unbound docu­ments and an archive book scanner for bound materials. The book scanner can produce about 3,000 pages daily.
In six to 12 weeks on average, an incoming project is preserved in pixels. The rare and unique treasures are then available world­wide, ready for anyone to view and use them.
–Scott Jared, University Gazette
Traveling to Chapel Hill may be a burden for some, so we are trying things such as going into the field to scan materials or using a courier service to bring items here.
LISA GREGORY
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Clockwise, from top left, scans from the Digital Heritage Center include this 1920s-era poster from Wayne County; future folksinger Emmylou Harris in a 1966 UNC-Greensboro student yearbook photo with faculty member Arthur Dixon; photo of Spicy Elizabeth Hayes Barefoot (1862–1931) scanned during an on-location session at the Johnston County Heritage Center in Smithfield in December; 1927 Yackety Yack photo of James Kern “Kay” Kyser before he became an iconic big band leader and radio personality; and, also from the Yack, Andy Griffith in 1947, before he was Sheriff Andy Taylor or Matlock on TV.UNIVERSITY GAZETTE
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History professor James Leloudis of the Chancellor’s Task Force on UNC–Chapel Hill History updated the University Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees on March 28 about a plan for developing signs, markers and online content to give people a better understanding of McCorkle Place.
The plan will use that quad to introduce visitors to “the broad sweep of our institutional history, from the story of this land and this place prior to European settlement to Carolina’s stat­ure today as one of the world’s leading research universities,” Leloudis said.
Phase one of the interpretive plan for McCorkle Place includes signage for the north entrance at Franklin Street and the south entrance at Old East; repair and renovation to the Unsung Founders Memorial; a marker for a history of the land’s indig­enous peoples; a marker giving historical context to the Confed­erate Monument; and related digital content.
In the years since the Unsung Founders Memorial was installed, the monument gradually sank into the ground, obscur­ing the figurines that make up its base. The goal of the repair and renovation is to stabilize the piece, improve accessibility and make the space more contemplative and reverential.
The two design concepts presented by Surface 678, a Durham firm, both connect the memorial to the brick walkway, place it on a round hard surface and encircle it with curved walls for reading and sitting. Both also include two markers, an introductory one at the entrance to the space and an artist’s statement.
The only real difference between the two is that the first con­cept breaks one of the curved walls with three slots, each on a sightline to a building constructed by enslaved people: Old East, Old West and Person Hall.
Riggs Ward Design, a Richmond firm, developed design con-
cepts for signage and markers in McCorkle Place. The first
concept embeds medallions and an engraved sign in the wall at the steps leading up from Franklin Street and in a new curved knee wall near Old East. In the second concept, the gateway sig­nage is tall and vertical, with separate markers embedded in the wall at Franklin Street and flush with the sidewalk at Old East.
Each of the proposed markers would include an embedded Bluetooth beacon to alert passersby through their smart phones or tablets, inviting them to access digital historical content online. The digital content will be “a virtual analog” to the history exhibit installed in Carolina Hall in 2016, Leloudis said.
Scholars working under the direction of Leloudis have already completed the digital content about the Confederate Monu­ment and are about halfway through the content for the Unsung Founders Memorial. That story will be told through the life of Wilson Caldwell, who was born into slavery and went on to found a school for African-Americans and to serve as a justice of the peace. Content about the history of indigenous peoples and their relationship to the University will also be devel­oped working with Native American scholars and community representatives.
Task force members hope to prompt people to visit “The Gift,” a tribute to North Carolina Native Americans created by Haliwa-Saponi artist Senora Lynch, at the Student Union.
At the end of the presentation, trustee Jeff Brown asked Leloudis if the interpretive plan for McCorkle Place could be expanded beyond the memorials and monuments there. “I was struck by the gateway markers [with the legend] ‘the birth­place of American public higher education,’” he said. “It seems to me that there’s an opportunity to broaden McCorkle Place’s recognition.”
Leloudis agreed. “That has always been our intent for McCorkle Place and why we’ve described this as phase one,” he said. He added that he could imagine markers at Hill Hall, the University’s first real library, and Graham Memorial, named for University President Edward Kidder Graham, to name a few.
“That has been our ultimate goal all along,” Leloudis said, “to develop interpretive plans and design concepts that would allow us to spin this out to scale.”
– Susan Hudson, University Gazette
History Task Force presents interpretive options for McCorkle Place
Plans from the history task force will use McCorkle Place to introduce visitors to the broad sweep of the University’s institutional history.
DAN SEARS
I was struck by the gateway markers [with the legend] ‘the birthplace of American public higher education.’ It seems to me that there’s an opportunity to broaden McCorkle Place’s recognition.
JEFF BROWN