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              If you email Paul Jones, you’ll receive a swan song to the electronic
communication he helped bring to Carolina: “Good-bye Email,
I’m divesting.”
Jones, who gave up email June 1, 2011, insists he isn’t being elusive.
The body of the instant reply names nearly 20 other ways to keep in
touch with Jones, including Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Skype and
LinkedIn. To collaborate on a paper, upload it to Google Docs. To set
up an appointment, look him up on Google Calendar and add yourself
to a free space.
Make a video and upload it to YouTube. Send him a text message.
You can still drop by his office in Manning Hall or pick up the phone,
like people did in the old days.
Jones’s automatic reply signs off with, “Peace, Love and
Understanding.”
But understanding isn’t a given. How can we live without email?
Inspired by ‘Magic School Bus’
Miss Frizzle, the red-haired teacher from the popular “Magic School
Bus” educational books has a favorite line that Jones said helps define his
Carolina Faculty and Staff News
Vol. 38, No. 2
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Vice Chancellor and General Counsel Leslie
Strohm told the University Board of Trustees on
Jan. 24 that the allegations that her office under-reported
sexual assault cases “are false, they are
untrue and they are just plain wrong.”
She presented two separate documents with
the numbers to prove it.
According to The Daily Tar Heel, a com-plaint
about how the University handles sexual
assault cases was filed last week with the U.S.
Department of Education’s Office for Civil
Rights. The complaint also reportedly alleges
that the University under-reported cases of sexual
assault in its annual Campus Security Report.
The complaint, which Strohm said the Univer-sity
has not yet received, reportedly alleges that
the University had violated a number of federal
laws, including the Clery Act, Title IX of the Edu-cation
Amendments of 1972, and Title VI and
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The first document Strohm showed trust-ees
was a one-page email that former Assistant
Dean of Students Melinda Manning sent to her
supervisor in Student Affairs. The email reported
16 sex offenses in 2010 – 12 that took place on
campus and four off campus. Of those on campus,
10 took place in residence halls, the email showed.
Strohm then presented an excerpt from the
Officials stand by UNC’s reporting of sexual assault cases
uni v e r s i t y
See Claims page 6
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for work
ethic
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McCracken
discusses
campus
safety
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Bacon
touts
vital role
of AHEC
12 See Technology page 7
January 30, 2013
Beyond email:
the constantly
changing realm
of electronic
communication
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Addendum supports conclusions of
initial Martin academic review report
Former North Carolina Gov. Jim Martin
stands behind his assertion that the anomalies
discovered in courses offered in the Department
of African and Afro-American Studies were an
academic issue, not an athletic one, and that the
academic abuses did not go beyond two individ-uals
in the department who no longer work here.
Martin presented those findings last month
to both the University’s Board of Trustees and
the Board of Governors Academic Review Panel
that is examining the campus investigations into
academic impropriety (see bit.ly/WGrWWt
for details).
In response to a request from the BOG panel
for additional information, Martin last week
included an addendum to the initial report that
detailed the enrollment composition of the anom-alous
courses and grade changes in those courses.
He was assisted in both analyses by national man-agement
consulting firm Baker Tilly.
The initial report summarized the issues at the
macro level and presented conclusions about the
participation of student-athletes in the anoma-lous
courses related to other courses in African
and Afro-American studies as well as across the
University as a whole, Raina Rose Tagle, a partner
with Baker Tilly, told the BOG panel on Jan. 25.
The addendum provides additional data and
drills down to specific course details, including
grade averages for both student-athletes and
non-athletes and factors affecting the clustering
of students in class enrollment, she said.
“We believe the information we presented
in this addendum is wholly consistent and sup-portive
of the conclusions we initially reported
in the main report,” she said. “We have been as
thorough as possible to come up with a robust
analysis. It is the same data, the same analysis
and same conclusions – just more precise.”
Equal access to courses
Student-athletes were not the primary benefi-ciaries
of the anomalous course sections, Mar-tin
and Rose Tagle found. All students had the
opportunity to enroll in these courses.
The follow-up examination looked at the
proportion of student-athletes and non-athletes
in 172 suspect lecture and independent
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A NEW STRAT EGY
“We educate and inspire through athletics” is the mis-sion
statement for the Department of Athletics as a result
of the newly completed strategic plan developed under
Director of Athletics Bubba Cunningham. The planning
team identified four core values for Carolina Athletics:
bit.ly/14ouFZZ responsibility, innovation, service and excellence.
CLIMBING FOR A CRISIS
Carolina alumnus Greg Allgood recently climbed
Mt. Kilimanjaro to raise awareness of the global clean
water crisis. Allgood is director of Procter & Gam-ble’s
Children’s Safe Drinking Water Initiative, which
provides more than a billion liters of clean drinking
bit.ly/Wxiq6V water annually.
‘A VIEW TO HUGH’
UNC Library’s blog, “A View to Hugh,” highlights the
photographs and films of Hugh Morton. Through the
photos of the Dean E. Smith Center, Jack Hilliard,
collection volunteer, takes a look back at the begin-ning
of what has become one of the premier basket-bit.
ly/VHL85a ball facilities in the country.
The University will test the emergency sirens on Feb. 12 between noon and 1 p.m. as part
of the Alert Carolina safety awareness campaign. Each semester the University tests the
sirens to make sure the equipment works.
During the test, anyone outside on or near campus, including downtown Chapel Hill, will
likely hear the sirens. People inside a building or driving a car should not expect to hear them.
The sirens will sound an alert tone along with a brief pre-recorded voice message. When
testing is complete, a different siren tone and voice message will signal “All clear. Resume
regular activities.”
Other than during a test, the sirens will sound for a major emergency or an immediate
safety or health threat such as:
An armed and dangerous person on or near campus;
A major chemical spill or hazard;
A tornado warning for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro area issued by the National Weather
Service; or
A different emergency, as determined by the Department of Public Safety.
“The sirens are the fastest way for the University to alert people about a life-threatening
emergency on or near campus,” said Chief Jeff McCracken, director of public safety. “We
conduct regular tests of the siren system to remind everyone what the sirens sound like and
to help our students, faculty and staff think about what to do in an actual emergency.”
During the test, the University will send test text messages – one when the sirens
sound along with a second one to mark the “all clear” – to the 50,000 cell phone numbers
registered by students, faculty and staff. In an emergency, the University also will post safety-related
announcements on the Alert Carolina website, alertcarolina.unc.edu.
In 2012 the University put up posters in every classroom to help educate students and
faculty about what to do when the sirens sound.
The University uses multiple ways to communicate based on criteria outlined in the Emer-gency
Notification Protocols. The University will inform the campus community using three
different types of notifications: Emergency Warning (sirens), Timely Warning and Informa-tional
Message. Information about each type of notification is included on Alert Carolina,
alertcarolina.unc.edu.
As an additional safety measure, students and employees are encouraged to register for the
American Red Cross Safe and Well list (www.redcross.org/safeandwell), which provides a
way for people to let their families know they are OK in the event of an emergency while
keeping cell phone lines open for emergency calls. The Alert Carolina website also includes a
link to Safe and Well.
University to
test emergency
sirens Feb. 12
See Academic Review page 11
The UNC Board of Governors is trying to determine how
to align higher education priorities and resources with the
challenges facing North Carolina.
Members of the UNC system’s 17 campuses believe the
answer lies in preserving the mission and autonomy of each
institution. That assertion came in response to a BOG com-mittee’s
draft of a new five-year strategic plan.
In crafting “Our Time, Our Future: The UNC Com-pact
with North Carolina,” the UNC Strategic Direc-tions
Committee focused on areas related to performance
and accountability. The committee examined ways to
improve graduation and retention rates and combine tra-ditional
education with new instructional methods, includ-ing
expanded distance education opportunities, among
other areas.
The committee wants to see the proportion of college
degree holders climb to 32 percent by 2018, with 37 per-cent
of the state’s population holding a bachelor’s degree or
higher by 2025. Achieving these goals would call for nearly
93,000 additional degrees by 2025, the report said. (To
read the report, see bit.ly/YcAnKi.)
Carolina faculty members discussed the report draft dur-ing
the Jan. 11 Faculty Council meeting.
Chair Jan Boxill said the draft had some worthy goals but
also some areas that were “worrisome for our campus” and
in need of clarification.
“We are not one university with branches, but different
institutions with different missions,” she said. “We cannot
afford a one-size-fits all approach. The education of our stu-dents
and control of the curriculum must remain with each
constituent institution and its faculty.”
Rachel Willis, Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished
Associate Professor of American Studies, said in drafting
input for the BOG committee, she channeled the voice of
the late William C. Friday, the man whose name was syn-onymous
with N.C. higher education for decades. Willis is
a member of the multi-campus Faculty Advisory Council
(FAC) to the UNC Strategic Directions Committee.
She thanked the faculty for their input. “You gave me
fact-based evidence across a multiplicity of units as individu-als,
as committee members and as administrative leaders,”
she said.
“There was uniformity that we need to differentiate by
mission, and even within the institutions, we need to differ-entiate
by our differences,” she told the council. “We found
this idea echoed by every campus.”
The FAC report also incorporates other core beliefs
including preserving quality as well as quantity in defining
academic productivity and involving faculty members in
developing strategic goals concerning academic outcomes.
(To read the FAC report, see bit.ly/Y4HVia.)
Earlier in the meeting, Chancellor Holden Thorp
encouraged the faculty to read the reports of independent
reviews conducted by former North Carolina Gov. Jim
Martin and national management consulting firm Baker
Tilly, which are posted on the Academic Review website
(academicreview.unc.edu).
The findings were presented last month to the Board of
Trustees. On Jan. 25, the University released additional
information as part of an addendum to the independent
academic review, which has been posted on the Academic
Review website. Martin provided comments accompanied
by data produced by Baker Tilly in the addendum.
Boxill reminded faculty that this spring, Hunter Rawl-ings,
president of the Association of American Universi-ties,
will help University officials examine the future rela-tionship
between academics and athletics on campus.
Thorp announced Rawlings’ visit last August as part of the
University’s comprehensive efforts to address academic
issues on campus.
Bringing in outside experts to provide an independent,
comprehensive analysis of the relationship between aca-demics
and athletics was a key recommendation in the Fac-ulty
Executive Committee report. (See the previous Gazette
story, bit.ly/Wbni5k.)
“We hope this will bring all our efforts together and let us
move forward,” Boxill said. She said she was working with
Thorp to involve faculty in that process.
January 30, 2013 3
Faculty Council
In December, as Employee Forum Chair
Jackie Overton recuperated in UNC Hos-pitals
after successful surgery, friends who
came by to visit were amazed at what “a
good grump” she proved to be.
For four days, Overton said, she was a real
Chatty Cathy, but her doctors warned her
that the fifth day, when the epidural tube
was removed, would be “the day you meet
your pain.”
That was when Chancellor Holden
Thorp and his wife, Patti, stopped by for
a visit.
Overton said she was feeling pretty nau-seated,
but that warning didn’t deter the
Thorps. Patti grabbed a wastebasket to hold
by the bed as they talked – in case it was
needed, Overton said.
The incident was emblematic of the kind
of leader – and friend – Thorp has been,
she said. “He listened with his heart, not
with his head,” Overton said.
Thorp has not only been a good friend
to Overton, he also has been a friend to the
Employee Forum, she said. He has listened
to concerns forum members have raised and
has provided unprecedented access to the
resources of his office to address those con-cerns,
she explained.
Overton recounted the story of that hos-pital
visit in what might be Thorp’s final
visit as chancellor to the Employee Forum
at its Jan. 9 meeting.
“My main message to you today is that
the University is doing absolutely great,”
Thorp said.
The University may be going through
a trying period, and it will see a transition
among its leaders, he said, but its underlying
vital signs have never been better.
Thorp gave an impressive number to
affirm his diagnosis: #1. For the 12th year in
a row, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Maga-zine
has ranked Carolina the top value in
public education because of Carolina’s “stel-lar
academics at a bargain price,” he said.
Looking toward the fiscal situation,
Thorp said he anticipated “a relatively flat
state budget.”
As for the federal budget, Thorp said
he would have preferred that President
Barack Obama and Congress embrace the
recommendations of the National Commis-sion
on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform
(known as the Simpson-Bowles commis-sion,
led by co-chairs Erskine Bowles and
Alan Simpson).
“There was pain in there [the recommen-dations]
for everybody,” Thorp said, from
reducing the amount spent on Medicare to
increasing the age for Social Security eligi-bility
to raising taxes on the wealthy.
Having room in the federal budget for the
research grants that are the lifeblood of pub-lic
research universities like Carolina calls
for shared sacrifices, Thorp suggested. The
biggest source of annual revenue to support
the University budget is the federal govern-ment,
he explained.
“Erskine [Bowles] has been one of the
great forces in America trying to get people
to be logical and sensible about how to deal
with this fiscal crisis,” Thorp said.
In fact, Bowles and Simpson had just
appeared on “Meet the Press” on Jan. 6 to
discuss their prescription of spending cuts
and tax increases. As Thorp noted, “Erskine
had his Carolina tie on.”
Turning to internal matters, Thorp talked
about recent efforts to improve the work
environment in Housekeeping Services.
He thanked forum members for their
patience as the University worked through
the issues. “It isn’t perfect yet, but it’s better
than at any time I have been affiliated with
the University,” he said.
Thorp acknowledged the commitment of
leaders within that unit, including Director
Darius Dixon and Anna Wu, assistant vice
chancellor for facilities operations. They are
listening to employees’ concerns and work-ing
to make things better, he said.
“When I leave as chancellor, one of the
things I’ll say I’m most proud of is the work
of so many people to make things better in
Housekeeping,” he said.
Overton: Thorp has been a friend to Employee Forum
UNC campuses advocate preserving mission, autonomy of each school
Carolina’s upcoming siren test on Feb. 12 is
much more than a way to make sure the emer-gency
siren system and related communication
methods work properly. It also gives people on
campus an opportunity to think about what
they would do in an actual emergency.
And that forethought
can make a big differ-ence
in an emergency
situation, said Chief Jeff
McCracken, director of
public safety.
“People should have
a plan in mind about
how to respond in an
emergency because it’s
very difficult to plan for
an emergency when you’re in the middle of
one,” he said.
“It’s important for people to know before-hand
where the exits are, where the fire escapes
are, the safest place in the building to be if a
tornado is spotted, that kind of thing. Planning
decreases panic and increases the chance for a
better outcome in an emergency situation.”
McCracken also encouraged people to be
familiar with the three types of notifications
University officials use to inform the campus
community about safety issues: Emergency
Warnings, Timely Warnings and Informa-tional
Messages (see alertcarolina.unc.edu for
details about each notification).
He spoke with the Gazette about keeping
the campus community safe.
Why does the University have Alert Carolina?
The real basis is safety, but there are other
parts, too, which are based on federal require-ments
in the Clery Act for certain types of
notification.
We’ll issue an emergency warning when
there’s an imminent threat to life on campus.
A timely warning is required for serious crimes
specified in the Clery Act when we think
there’s still an existing threat to the campus.
That was really the original version of
the emergency communications policy,
and we learned later that the campus com-munity
wanted more information about
things that didn’t rise to the first two levels of
notification. So now we have a third level,
informational messages.
Is the timeframe the same for all three notifica-tion
levels?
No, it depends on the situation. In the first
two levels of the policy, we really want people
to do something for their safety, but in the
third level we aren’t asking people to do any-thing.
It’s strictly to inform them about a situ-ation
on or near campus they may hear about
and wonder about their safety.
In an emergency, there’s an imminent threat
of some type and we want people to seek shel-ter
for their safety immediately. As soon as we
become aware that there is a life-threatening
situation, and it’s verified, we will activate the
sirens and all the other communications that
come with it.
In a timely warning, we want to heighten
people’s awareness and ask them to do some-thing
specific for their safety. The timeframe
backs down a little bit while we investigate to
get more information.
The informational message is solely for
information; there is no continuing threat to
campus and no requirement about the time
in which we send that notification. This level
has the longest gap between the incident and
when people are notified.
That being said, we want to send these mes-sages
just as soon as we can – with correct
information. That can take a while, especially
if we’re working with another agency; that’s
just the way it is.
What goes into the decision-making process
for sending an informational email?
The decision-making process is most diffi-cult
in the area between an informational mes-sage
and a timely warning. The key is whether
we think there is a continuing danger to
the campus.
We gather all the information we can,
which sometimes comes from another police
agency, depending on where the incident has
occurred. There are a lot of variables involved,
but if we know that a situation has occurred
– and not sending information about it will
create a void that will be filled with incorrect
information – we send an informational mes-sage.
If we believe there’s a continuing threat,
it rises to a timely warning.
We want to give as much information to the
community as possible so people can make
decisions concerning their safety, but there
are times we can’t release everything we know
about a case. If we have certain information
that is crucial to an ongoing investigation, we
may not be able to include it in the message to
campus because it will impede our ability to
proceed with the investigation.
Every situation is different, so to say there’s
a fine line where we’re always going to do this
or not going to do this just isn’t realistic.
Is the emergency communications system
effective?
Yes, and it isn’t static. Any time there’s an
emergency or major incident, we do an after-action
review of that incident – whether it’s
internal for a small incident or involving mul-tiple
agencies for a big incident.
The communication protocols are one
thing we review; if we can improve them, we
revise them. The policy will naturally evolve
over time. We rely a lot on technology for
communicating to the campus, so as technol-ogy
changes, the policy will change in con-junction
with it.
Is crime on or near campus increasing?
Statistically, the crime rates have not
increased on or near campus. There have
been some incidents recently where firearms
were discharged in the downtown area. In two
cases, the firearm was not fired at anyone but
was discharged into the air.
Even so, part of the perception that there is
an increase in crime in the Chapel Hill areas
has to do with the fact that we’re doing a good
job communicating with the community. Our
current policy is much more proactive than it
used to be; we push information to the public.
That’s particularly true for the informational
emails people now receive. In the past, they
may not have known about those incidents. I
think that leads to the perception that there is
an increase in crime when actually there isn’t.
One new step we’ve taken is to work with
Chapel Hill police to increase foot patrols in the
downtown area on weekend nights in targeted
locations. We hope it will not only serve as a
deterrent for people who would cause problems
but also will help people feel safer in those areas.
What can people do to promote their own safety
and the safety of the campus community?
I like to ask people to be the eyes for the
department. We have 53 sworn law enforce-ment
positions to police the campus, and obvi-ously
they cannot be everywhere at one time.
First, we want people to be aware of their sur-roundings
and report anything that is suspicious.
Sometimes people are uncomfortable doing
that because they think they’ll have to become
personally involved if they call the police. That
is not the case. If people see something or some-one
suspicious, they can call Public Safety and
we will send an officer to investigate.
The caller doesn’t have to meet with the
officer or file a report. We’ll look into it, and
take any appropriate action.
We also want people to use some common
safety tips, which are listed on the Alert Caro-lina
page. Use the public transportation on cam-pus,
particularly at night. The University invests
a lot of money in our public transportation pro-cess,
and student fees support Point-to-Point.
There aren’t many hours of the day when there
isn’t some kind of transportation available.
People should use the emergency phones
located across campus. It doesn’t have to be an
emergency. People can call if they see something
that’s suspicious, and we’ll investigate. These
phones are easy to use. Just push one button and
it rings directly to our communications center.
When should people call 911? What about
reporting information?
If there’s an emergency, people should call
911 so we can get someone there as quickly as
possible. If someone has information about a
crime that isn’t an emergency, they can call our
non-emergency number (919-962-8100).
They also can call the Chapel Hill-
Carrboro-UNC Crime Stoppers tip line at
919-942-7515. Calls to Crime Stoppers are
confidential and anonymous. Or, they can go
to the Silent Witness online reporting form on
the Public Safety website, bit.ly/14oOmkv.
We’ll follow up information we get in any of
those ways.
What do you want people to know about safety
at Carolina?
Our campus is relatively safe. Are we immune
to crime? Certainly not, but violent crime is a
pretty rare occurrence on our campus. I think a
lot of that is attributed to people who look out
for their own safety and call us when they see
things that don’t look right. The more people
do that, the safer our campus will be.
We are constantly looking for partners across
campus to address crime and public safety con-cerns.
If people want public safety program-ming
we are prepared to make presentations on
a number of topics, or we can tailor information
to address a particular issue of interest. We want
to help as much as we can.
It’s really about building trust so when we
send a notice to campus, people will say, ‘I
might not know everything that’s going on but
safety officials have the facts and they’re mak-ing
decisions based on what they believe is
best for the campus.’ If we can get to that
point, it will be wonderful.
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McCracken
McCracken: UNC community is key in keeping campus safe
The Department of Public Safety’s mobile command center is geared for use during an emergency
situation or campus special event.
January 30, 2013 5
Faculty/Staff News
If a faculty member writes a best-selling text-book
while on reduced teaching load, who owns
the copyright? Who should get the royalties?
If a student takes really great lecture notes,
can she sell them to her classmates?
The University has a copyright policy that
seeks to address many such issues that arise in an
academic setting. Even so, the variety and com-plexity
of the situations it covers can make it hard
to interpret, said Anne Gilliland, scholarly com-munications
officer in the University Libraries.
Gilliland has created several case studies
that clarify the question of “Who owns my
work?” They, and a link to the copyright pol-icy,
are on the University Copyright Commit-tee
website, bit.ly/11XgN9p.
“UNC’s policy tries to strike a balance,” Gil-liland
said. While faculty and staff expect that
they will be compensated whenever work they
produce is commercialized, the University relies
on the intellectual work of individual employees
and faculty members to fulfill its core mission.
In general, Gilliland said, many questions
come down to whether the work can be classi-fied
as “directed” or “non-directed.”
Employees generally produce directed work
in response to a specific assignment or set of
instructions, as when a supervisor asks a staff
member to write computer code for a busi-ness
function or create a procedure or proto-col.
These types of intellectual work belong
to the University, unless a prior contract speci-fies
otherwise.
Conversely, much faculty work, such as
publishing research findings, is non-directed.
The faculty member initiates and completes
the work using his or her best judgment. The
individual retains the copyright.
Situations where University employees create
course syllabi, curricula and other works as part
of their job responsibilities are more nuanced.
“Faculty and other employees think of these
works as the product of their own creative out-put.
They use their independent professional
judgment to create them, and they want to be
able to control and also profit from the effort,”
Gilliland said.
According to the UNC copyright policy,
most lecture content, syllabi, slide presenta-tions
and other pedagogical materials created
at Carolina remain in the ownership of their
creator. However, the University retains a
license to use these works for educational or
research use without having to pay royalties. If
the work is commercialized, the creator gets to
keep the royalties in most cases.
But not all cases. That faculty member with
the textbook? The reduced teaching load may
constitute what the copyright policy terms an
“exceptional” use of University resources, Gil-liland
said, which means the University may
own the rights unless another agreement is
negotiated.
As for the student with the lecture notes –
under UNC policy, she may not sell or other-wise
commercialize them.
Members of the campus community can
consult with Gilliland about copyright and
intellectual property issues: anne_gilliland@
unc.edu or 919-843-3256.
– Judy Panitch, University Libraries
Chancellor Holden Thorp has
appointed an 11-member search com-mittee
to help identify candidates to
become the University’s vice chancellor
for development. He charged the com-mittee,
chaired by Lowry Caudill, an
alumnus and member of the Board of
Trustees, co-founder of Magellan Labo-ratories
and an adjunct faculty member,
at its first meeting last week.
“With the search for the University’s next chancellor well under
way, it’s important to initiate the process now to time the vice
chancellor search so my successor will have an opportunity to pro-vide
input and be involved in the interview process and final selec-tion,”
Thorp said in a campus email message earlier this month.
He is using the same strategy with the search for the execu-tive
vice chancellor and provost (see bit.ly/WvgR8w.)
Thorp said he consulted with Chancellor Emeritus James
Moeser, who dealt with two vacant administrative positions
when he became chancellor in 2000. Moeser confirmed that
initiating these key searches now would help accelerate the
transition process within the administration and put Thorp’s
successor in the best position after taking office.
“I am grateful to Julia Sprunt Grumbles for her continued
service as interim vice chancellor,” Thorp said. “A Carolina
alumna, Julia is the former corporate vice president of Turner
Broadcasting in Atlanta. She has done an excellent job oversee-ing
the central development office since last September.”
Besides Caudill, the search committee members are:
Alice Ammerman, professor of nutrition, Gillings School of
Global Public Health, and director, Center for Health Pro-motion
and Disease Prevention;
David Anderson, associate dean for advancement and presi-dent
of the Medical Foundation of North Carolina, Inc., which
Mark Heise, associate professor of microbiology and immu-nology
in the School of Medicine, is also a principal inves-tigator
who works with mosquito-borne viruses to discover
how viruses cause disease and how that information can help
develop more effective vaccines and therapy.
Heise is a staunch advocate of wearing personal protective
equipment (PPE) in the laboratory. He spoke about the impor-tance
of PPE in a recent interview for the Gazette (his full video
interview is posted at bit.ly/XFBzDz).
The necessity of PPE: Part of working with infectious
agents means keeping in mind the importance of protecting
yourself from the things you are working with, Heise said. “So
we want to make sure that our eyes are protected, because with
many of the viruses, inoculating yourself in the eye is the way
you can contract the virus. And we want to protect our hands
from breaks in the skin… so it is just good practice to use PPE
to make sure we’re protected.”
Safety for the entire lab: As a principal investigator,
Heise said the issue isn’t just about protecting himself, it is also
making sure the people who work with him are protected and
that they are doing things safely. “Science is a lot of fun. Science is
really interesting, but the consequences of an accident in the lab
for any individual can be quite serious,” he said. “I want to make
sure that people who are working in the lab are doing it safely.”
Why the lab coat? In the video, Heise talks about
the importance of wearing a lab coat to keep viruses or other
potentially hazardous substances off researchers’ clothes. “I
don’t work in the lab as much as my people do, but I do go
directly from work to pick up my kids at school. So when my
son or daughter gives me a hug, I want to make sure that I
don’t have anything on my clothes that I wouldn’t want them
exposed to,” he said.
“We work with these materials all the
time. We know the risks; we know what
we are doing. We know how to handle
them safely. But, other people we inter-act
with didn’t sign up to work with
these things, so I think it’s important not
only to protect ourselves, but to protect
anybody else we interact with.”
The bottom line: “It’s important
to wear PPE because the consequences
of being exposed to something dangerous just aren’t worth the
risks,” Heise said. “It’s easy to put on eye protection. It’s easy to
put on gloves, easy to wear a lab coat. It protects you and every-one
you interact with. It’s just the way to do things.”
– John Covely, Department of Environment, Health and Safety
Heise advocates wearing personal protective equipment in the lab
Heise
Copyright guidance available for faculty and staff
Caudill to lead vice chancellor for development search committee
Caudill
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2011 Campus Security Report that listed
14 sex offenses taking place in campus resi-dence
halls (four more than Manning’s email
reported) and five other offenses elsewhere
on campus (three more than Manning’s email
indicated), along with the same number Man-ning
gave for off-campus offenses.
“So the facts are these: The Office of Uni-versity
Counsel reported every single sex
offense that Melinda Manning sent to us, plus
seven additional sex offenses that we gathered
through our outreach to other offices like cam-pus
police and Chapel Hill police,” Strohm said.
The Campus Security Report is a document
the University is required to prepare under a
federal law known as the Clery Act, which also
requires that the report be publicly posted
each October.
Strohm said her office begins gathering
data for the report in January from a range of
sources, including Student Affairs, the Office
of Human Resources, UNC Public Safety,
Chapel Hill Police, Carrboro Police, other
law enforcement in any jurisdiction where
the University owns or leases property, and
UNC Hospitals.
Chancellor Holden Thorp said it is impor-tant
for the campus community to understand
the diligence and care that Strohm and her
staff have exercised to address this issue. “It is
a daunting task but it is one we do well and we
do with the greatest sense of responsibility,”
Thorp said.
Thorp said he had a conversation over the
weekend with Carolyn “Biddy” Martin, presi-dent
of Amherst College, which has faced
similar concerns about its handling of sexual
assault complaints and has positively responded
to these concerns. Based on that conversa-tion,
Thorp said the University was seeking
approval to retain Gina
Maisto Smith, a nation-ally
recognized lawyer
and leading consultant
on sexual misconduct
issues, to bring a healthy
outside perspective on
where things stand cur-rently
at Carolina.
University Trustee
Chair Wade Hargrove
encouraged people to reserve final judgment
of the matter until all the facts are in. He said
it would be “premature and inappropriate” to
comment on allegations that have been levied
from a complaint that the University has not
yet seen.
“I just want to assure the campus commu-nity
and others outside Chapel Hill that we
are taking it quite seriously,” Hargrove said.
“We are looking at it and trying to get our arms
around the facts. And we will deal with it in a
timely and responsible manner.”
Thorp also pointed out that the University
has been in “a fluid and changing environ-ment”
since the Office for Civil Rights sent a
new set of standards in 2011 under Title IX
of the Education Amendment of 1972. These
were presented in a “Dear Colleague” letter.
In response, many campuses, including Car-olina,
launched an extensive review of policies
and procedures for addressing and responding
to sexual assault allegations, Thorp said.
Those guidelines formed the basis for an
overhauled policy implemented at UNC this
academic year (see the Policy on Prohibited
Harassment, Including Sexual Misconduct,
and Discrimination, go.unc.edu/Sd86Q).
Thorp said it is his firm belief that student
well-being, despite the other difficult issues
Carolina has faced in recent months, is the
most important issue facing higher education,
and he welcomed feedback on the issues.
“It is as challenging as anything we have to
do,” he said. “It involves sensitive and difficult
issues, and it involves trying to treat people
fairly within that environment.”
Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Winston
Crisp said that although federal law prohib-ited
him from addressing specific allegations
reported in the paper, he looked forward to
responding fully when the opportunity arose.
“Let me join with the chancellor in saying
unequivocally that I see this issue as one of
utmost importance,” Crisp said. “We abso-lutely
have a responsibility to provide all the
support and services to all of the victims of
sexual violence we possibly can.”
Crisp said he had spent 20 years on this
campus working on this issue and others
involving students and that he remained “dedi-cated
to creating an atmosphere that is worthy
of this place.”
Thorp said it may take about a month for
the Office for Civil Rights to evaluate the com-plaint.
If the office determines that an inves-tigation
is warranted, “we will cooperate fully
with them,” he said.
Strohm said that she “fervently hoped”
that the allegation was the result of a
misunderstanding.
“It is clear that the OCR complaint has
sparked a conversation about sexual violence,”
Strohm said. “That is a conversation that is
important and definitely worth having.
“It is a conversation that is only going to be
successful if it is approached with honesty and
facts and good will and a team effort to jointly
solve this problem that is so important to all of
us. The Office of University Counsel looks for-ward
to being a part of that conversation.”
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Smith
The market value of the UNC-Chapel
Hill Foundation Investment Fund Inc.
at the end of the last fiscal year (June 30,
2012) was $2.14 billion, a decrease of
$80 million from the previous year, said
Jon King, president and chief executive
officer of UNC Management Co. Inc.
At Carolina, the University’s endow-ment
funds, as well as most long-term
funds held by affiliated foundations, are
pooled in the UNC-Chapel Hill Founda-tion
Investment Fund Inc. (CHIF) for
investment purposes.
The CHIF invests all its assets in
UNC Investment Fund LLC, which also
includes assets invested from other con-stituent
institutions in the UNC system.
The change in value reflected a net
investment return of 2.1 percent on the
fund, counterbalanced by the $119 mil-lion
distribution from the fund to sup-port
designated University programs.
Another component reflected in the
fund was new private gifts made to the
fund during the year.
In his annual presentation to the
Board of Trustees on Jan. 24, King said
the rate of return, while disappoint-ing,
was still a positive return in a year
when positive returns were difficult to
generate.
The fund’s primary investment objec-tive
is to preserve its inflation-adjusted
purchasing power by earning an annual
rate of return of at least 5.5 percent
in excess of the inflation rate over the
long term.
In 2012, the fund fell short of that tar-get.
“We didn’t even earn the payout last
year,” King said.
Still, because of the difficult mar-ket
conditions, the 2.1 percent rate of
return ranked in the top quartile of the
BNY Mellon Endowment and Founda-tion
Universe, King said. (The universe
is a fund-level tracking service provided
by the Bank of New York that university
fund managers across the country use for
peer comparisons of both performance
and asset allocation results.)
While the 2012 return did not meet
the long-term goal of growing the prin-cipal
after spending and inflation, King
said it was important to stay focused on
the primary goal of the fund, which is to
create “intergenerational equity” by pro-ducing
a steady rate of growth over the
long run.
The investment strategy is geared
toward producing steady returns, at
minimal risk, over a three-, five- or
10-year period of time, King said. And
that line of thinking is harder to main-tain
in an environment in which more
and more investors are thinking in win-dows
of time of three, five or 10 minutes,
he added.
CHIF’s long-term performance
remains strong, with a 10-year return
that exceeded 8 percent – a return that
ranks in the top quartile of university
endowments.
University’s
investment fund
weathers
difficult year
supports the School of Medicine and UNC Health Care;
James Dean, Sarah Graham Kenan Distinguished Scholar
and professor of organizational behavior and dean, Kenan-
Flagler Business School;
Douglas Dibbert, president, General Alumni Association;
John Ellison, president and chief executive officer of the
Ellison Company, Inc. and a former member of the Univer-sity’s
Board of Trustees;
Michael Kennedy, senior client partner with Korn/Ferry
International, an Atlanta-based executive recruitment and
leadership development firm, and past chair of UNC’s Board
of Visitors;
John Montgomery, executive director of the Educational
Foundation, Inc. and senior associate athletic director,
Department of Athletics;
Terry Rhodes, professor of music and senior associate dean
for fine arts and humanities, College of Arts and Sciences;
Barbara Rimer, Alumni Distinguished Professor and dean,
Gillings School of Global Public Health; and
Anna Wu, assistant vice chancellor for facilities operations,
planning and design, Finance and Administration Division.
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progression through more than three decades of information
technology at UNC: “Take chances, make mistakes, get messy.”
Jones, who started at Carolina in 1977 in the Office of Infor-mation
Technology and now holds joint appointments in the
School of Journalism and Mass Communication and School
of Information and Library Science, helped write the code for
UNC’s first email program nearly 30 years ago.
He went office to office, singing the praises of email’s superior-ity
to the inter-office memo.“At the time, I had people rhapsodize
over the texture of paper that came out of a Xerox machine,” he
said. “‘It’s something about holding it in your hand, it’s some-thing
about the way the words are formed.’ In an office memo?”
It’s human nature, Jones said: If things are working for you,
why should you learn something new?
Like the inter-office memo of days gone by, Jones thinks
email has run its course. He was spending hours filing, deleting
and responding to misdirected mail, retail discounts and spam.
The platform, he said, sucked away time from more meaningful
communication.
“I’d come in, pour a cup of coffee, and spend the next 45 min-utes
managing email,” he said.
Jones started to realize that more highly interactive commu-nication
forms, like video, would bypass email, and he asked
himself whether he was willing to risk making the change.
Keep moving forward
“Sometimes I envy Paul and his no email,” said Barbara
Moran, dean emerita and professor in the School of Informa-tion
and Library Science. “I’d gain hours in my day. But would I
be able to do what I need to do? I’m not sure I would.”
Moran spends at least two hours each day dealing with her
email. It isn’t uncommon.
“I’ll have 40 messages
in my inbox, and they just
keep coming,” she said.
“People are afraid to go
away on vacation because
they worry they are going
to come back to 10,000
messages. I think we’re all
tethered to our electronic
information now.”
With electronic infor-mation
here to stay,
Moran said an academic
institution like Carolina
has to keep moving for-ward.
The worst thing to
do in a university envi-ronment
is stop learning
how to do new things.
“We have people work-ing
in the library who
came in when there was
nothing but card catalogs,” she said. “During the course of a
career, how do you stay up with the changes? You have to con-stantly
be flexible and always open to new ideas and new technol-ogies.
If you don’t, you just can’t serve your patrons very well.”
Nothing completely displaces what came before, she said.
New features from new programs make life easier, and remain-ing
open to them makes change less overwhelming.
Staying connected to 20 social networking platforms doesn’t
seem that it would be easy, and Jones said it isn’t. In the future
he’ll narrow down the social networking services he uses, but
right now he knows he needs to remain hyper-connected to
collaborate.
“It would make more sense if I just focused on one or two
social networking solutions, and one day I probably will,” he
said. “But I’m asking other people to change their patterns, and
I feel like I should be doing things to make that easy for them.”
Finding your own way
Students, he said, now reserve email for communicating
with parents and administrators – because they have to. On a
sunny day, he sees them on the quad, using Face Time on their
iPhones to show faraway friends their beautiful campus.
“You have students who are on a four-year cycle, and they
come in adept at the newest practices, and that’s what they
expect. They like communication to be mobile, terse, under
their control, visibly pleasing, highly interactive and with differ-ent
degrees of privacy,” he said.
Many of them, he said, gave up email for social networking
long ago, and it’s worth exploring why.
“It’s not that they don’t use email, but that they don’t
use it the same way we do,” said Chris Williams, program
director of ResNET, which provides on-site IT support,
education and the technology infrastructure for the UNC
residential communities.
Students have to use email to communicate with profes-sors,
he said, but they typically spend more time filtering spam
than reading messages. “On average, they are receiving 50 to
100 messages a day,” he said. “We’ve learned that to effectively
communicate with students, you have to make your message
available in every possible form to cater to all students.”
Jones acknowledges that most employees on campus need
email. But when it starts to take over the day, he suggests add-ing
in some of the social networking platforms people have
mastered in their private lives.
“Can you and a colleague instead ask each other quick
questions through a chat program?” he asked. “Sure. It’s less of
an interruption than an email you worry you’ll forget to return.”
Moran agrees that even if people can’t go the no-email route,
they can look for ways to manage an overwhelming inbox.
“Even our students spend an inordinate time on email,” she
said. “You have to find what works with your personality and
your own life, the way you manage all the other things you have
going on.”
Some people check and return email once in the morning
and once in the afternoon. Moran reads each email as it comes
in, something she admits might be a time hog. But it’s more her
style as an educator and researcher who wants to remain open
to her students and collaborators.
“I hear the little noise and I feel like someone is talking to me,
and I need to answer them,” she said.
In the end, both Jones and Moran agree, the search for the
most meaningful form of communication comes down to
service. And on a university campus, it will never be a one-size-fits-
all solution.
“When you look at what your customers are doing, and what
they want from you, you have to ask yourself: ‘Am I doing my
best to really serve this person?’ Because that should be your
goal,” Jones said.
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Barbara Moran, from the School of Information and Library Science, says email, though time consum-ing,
would be hard to give up.
When students go ‘no email’
“Students live in an on-demand
world,” said Chris Williams, director
of ResNET. He shares a few solutions
for making sure information reaches
them where they are:
Make information web-accessible
so students can find it using a
Google search, and at their own
convenience.
Consider making content like
training sessions available on
YouTube or iTunesU. “Students’
favorite TV shows don’t start
at 8 p.m.,” Williams said, “but
when they log into Hulu and
press play.”
Use Facebook and Twitter to
connect with students. If social
media seems challenging, hire a
student to help.
Manage expectations. “Remem-ber,
a student’s main goal is to
attend classes and graduate.”
Students want communication that is mobile, terse and highly
interactive, Paul Jones says.
8 University Gazette
Lectures and events
Jan. 31 – The Center for the Study of the American
South will host a reception for painter Damian Stamer at
5:30 p.m. at the Love House and Hutchins Forum. His exhi-bition
“Overgrown” will be on view at the center through the
spring semester.
Jan. 31 – James Salzman, Samuel Mordecai Chair in the
School of Law and the Nicholas Institute Professor Chair
in the School of the Environment at Duke University, will
deliver the lecture “Drinking Water: A History” at 5:30 p.m.
in room 4003 of the FedEx Global Education Center.
Jan. 31–Feb. 2 – The symposium “W.E.B. DuBois and the
Problem(s) of the 21st Century” will be presented by distin-guished
faculty, alumni, students and honored guests of the
Department of African and Afro-American Studies in Hyde
Hall’s University Room. For details and registration, visit
bit.ly/14jejkl.
Feb. 1 – Gary Varner, professor of philosophy at Texas
A&M University, will give the lecture “A Two-Level Utili-tarian
Perspective on Humans and Animals” from 3 p.m.
to 5 p.m. in 213 Caldwell Hall. The event will be hosted
by the UNC Center for Bioethics and the Expressive
Communication and Origins of Meaning Research Group.
bit.ly/UxQXEI
Feb. 3 – The exhibit “Photographic Angles: News Photog-raphy
in the North Carolina Collection” in the collection’s
gallery closes.
Feb. 7 – Frank Costigliola, professor of history at the Uni-versity
of Connecticut, will give the lecture “The Processes of
Thought in George Kennan’s Imagining of Russia” at 4 p.m.
in 509 Hamilton Hall as a part of “The U.S. in World Affairs:
The Cold War and Beyond” lecture series.
‘Southern Sounds/Out of Bounds:
Music and the Global American
South’ conference
Join musicians and scholars Feb. 8 and 9 for an exploration of
the culture, meaning and practice of music from the globalized
American South across borders, genres and identities. Special
programming includes a keynote lecture from Karl Hagstrom
Miller on the future of music at the dawn of the 20th century
and an artists’ conversation with Abigail Washburn and Wu Fei
on their combinations of traditional U.S. Appalachian music
with Chinese traditional music. The conference, presented by
the Center for Global Initiatives and the Center for the Study
of the American South in collaboration with Carolina Perform-ing
Arts, is free with registration.
Tickets are available for the evening performances: Carolina
Chocolate Drops with Vusi Mahlasela on Feb. 8 and Abigail
Washburn and Kai Welch with Wu Fei on Feb. 9. Conference
registrants receive a 20 percent discount code while tickets last.
cgi.unc.edu/gas
Free tax return help
UNC Law Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA)
will provide free income tax return preparation for people
with incomes less than $51,000 at clinics held from Feb. 2 to
March 24. VITA will also sponsor a website where individuals
with incomes less than $57,000 may prepare their own taxes
online. Law school students, master of accounting students
and a few undergraduates will serve as volunteers to provide
this service for the Carolina and Chapel Hill communities. For
more information, visit bit.ly/W57XmX.
SEC sets record in 2012
The University’s Carolina Cares, Carolina Shares charitable
giving campaign set a new record for giving in 2012.
The campaign, this year called “Tar Heels Give More,”
News I n Brief
Carolina Global
Photography Exhibit
2013 on display
View amateur photography from around the world in this exhibit
featuring works by UNC students, faculty, staff and alumni through
March 8 at the FedEx Global Education Center. All photography on
display was submitted as part of the 13th annual Carolina Global Pho-tography
Competition. This year, in connection with the campus-wide
academic theme “Water in Our World,” one photograph was selected
as the best water image. There was also a “Chancellor’s Choice” cat-egory,
the winner selected by Chancellor Holden Thorp.
Felix Gonzalez-Torres, “Un-titled”
(Portrait of Ross in
L.A.), 1991. Candies individu-ally
wrapped in multicolored
cellophane, endless supply.
Ideal weight: 175 lbs. © The
Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foun-dation.
Courtesy of Andrea
Rosen Gallery, New York.
Presenting a broad spectrum of art made over the last 20 years, “More Love: Art, Politics and
Sharing Since the 1990s” will open Feb. 1 at the Ackland Art Museum with 48 works by 33 emerging
and established artists. ackland.unc.edu
Jan. 31 – Join a members’ exhibition preview of the exhibit at 5 p.m. RSVP to tiny.cc/
members_rsvp
Jan. 31 – A public opening reception will be held at the museum from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Feb. 2 – A “More Love” book signing with consulting curator Claire Schneider will be held at
2 p.m. in the Ackland Museum Store.
Feb. 3 – Take a curator’s tour of “More Love” at 2 p.m.
Feb. 6 – Michelle Robinson, assistant professor of American studies, will be the featured speaker at
Arts for Lunch and will give the lecture “Love Freaks! (And Order Avenges)” at noon. The event is free
to members and valid UNC One Card holders, $5 for all others. RSVP online at tiny.cc/lunch_rsvp
Feb. 7 – Art and Literature in the Galleries will explore Italio Calvino’s “Difficult Loves” with Xin
Liu, teaching fellow in the Department of Romance Languages, at 6:30 p.m. The event is free to
members, high school students and valid UNC One Card holders; $10 for all others. RSVP to:
acklandRSVP@unc.edu
Feb. 10 – Peter Nisbet,
chief curator, and arts writer
Amy White will provide two
unique perspectives on the
exhibition “More Love” with
a public tour at 2 p.m.
UNC alumnus Cam Carrithers’ “Garifuna Culture in Belize” is this year’s
winning photo.
Curriculum development
awards
Feb. 7 – Applications are due for Curric-ulum
Development Awards for faculty who
are interested in developing new courses
with significant global content or enhancing
global content in existing courses. Priority
will be given to courses that focus on water,
the pan-university theme, especially those
in schools and departments that currently
lack such a focus. bit.ly/Wry6Zs
ENVR 890 dedicated to
academic theme
“Water In Our World” (ENVR 890), held
this spring, is the first of many University-wide,
interdisciplinary courses that will coin-cide
with the two-year campus wide theme.
Registration for ENVR 890, a one-credit
class, was open to graduate students and
advanced undergraduates. Examining a range
of critical topics on global water, this course
will bring together expert faculty from UNC
and visiting scholars to lead units on water
development, water safety, water in the envi-ronment,
human rights to water, water and
civilization and the water/energy nexus.
‘Water and Energy in
the Crosshairs’
Experts on issues of water and energy will
gather Feb. 6 – 8 for “Water and Energy
in the Crosshairs,” a conference on global
environmental challenges and solutions.
Events will take place at the Varsity Theatre,
FedEx Global Education Center and the
Kenan Center. Visit bit.ly/W58xRD for a
complete schedule.
The conference is free and open to the
public, and online registration ends Jan. 31.
Events will include a screening of “Switch,” a
new documentary about the future of energy,
a keynote address by Christian Parenti,
author of “Tropics of Chaos: Climate
Change and the Geography of Violence,” on
the effects of the loss of biodiversity, panel
presentations, discussions and more.
“Water and Energy in the Crosshairs” is
the third in a four-part series on global sus-tainability
bringing together local and global
experts to explore key issues related to water
and energy in an inter-disciplinary and com-munity
gathering.
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raised a total of $894,533, more than $112,000 over 2011.
Almost 2,900 employees contributed, the highest participation
since 2004.
The total set a record for the most money ever raised by the
annual charitable campaign. It also set a record for the State
Employees’ Combined Campaign as the most ever raised by a
single state agency and university.
“The past several years have been challenging, but Carolina’s
employees have always come through when we asked them
to help those in need,” said Brenda Richardson Malone, vice
chancellor for human resources and campaign chair. “This year,
we really meant it when we said, ‘Tar Heels Give More!’”
Schools, divisions and departments that met participa-tion
goals and other metrics will be recognized by Chancellor
Holden Thorp and Malone at an awards reception in February.
DEADLINES TO WATCH
Jan. 31 – 2013 King’s College Fund Proposals are due for
projects and collaborative events that advance the relation-ship
between UNC and King’s College London. All propos-als
should be approved by the chair of the department or cur-riculum.
Funds may be requested to cover travel by faculty
and graduate students, costs of housing and hospitality for
events and other expenses if appropriate. More information:
bit.ly/WZdF5r
Feb. 6 – Nominations are due for the 2013 C. Knox Massey
Distinguished Service Awards, given for “unusual, meritori-ous
or superior contribution made by an employee, past or
present.” Winners will be announced in late March and the
six recipients each will receive $7,500. Nominations may
be submitted online (bit.ly/14oMcRT) or by campus mail
to: Carolyn Atkins, C. Knox Massey Awards Committee,
CB# 6100. For information, see bit.ly/WAMf7v or contact
Atkins at 919-962-1536 or carolyn_atkins@unc.edu.
Feb. 8 – Nominations are due for the 2013 Chancellor’s
Awards for Excellence in Student Activities and Leadership.
Complete information and a nomination form are located
online: bit.ly/WAMjUO. For further information, con-tact
Tammy Lambert at 919-966-3128 or email lambert2
@email.unc.edu.
Feb. 18 – Proposals are due for service-learning course
development grants through APPLES, a program of the
Carolina Center for Public Service. Five $8,000 grants and
three $1,500 mini-grants will be awarded for courses that
successfully integrate community-based service into the cur-riculum
and promote the pedagogy of service-learning at
Carolina. Joint applications from collaborating faculty are
welcomed. For more information, visit bit.ly/14jh0T8.
March 4 – Nominations will close for Faculty Mentor-ing
Awards. Sponsored by the Carolina Women’s Lead-ership
Council, these awards recognize outstanding men
and women faculty members who go the extra mile to
guide, mentor and lead undergraduate students, gradu-ate
students or junior faculty. Three recipients each will
receive $5,000. To learn more or submit a nomination, visit
bit.ly/Yt8lhw.
NEWS IN BRIEF Submissions
Next issue includes events from Feb. 14 to Feb. 27.
Deadline for submissions is 5 p.m., Mon., Feb. 4. Email
gazette@unc.edu. The Gazette events page includes
only items of general interest geared toward a broad
audience. For complete listings of events, see the
Carolina Events Calendars at events.unc.edu.
PlayMakers offers discount
for UNC employees
PlayMakers Repertory Company will continue to present
“A Raisin in the Sun” and “Clybourne Park” in rotating repertory
through March 3. UNC faculty and staff can purchase tickets to
both plays at a discounted rate. Contact 919-962-PLAY (7529)
for more information.
Dee Dee Batteast as Ruth Younger, Matt Garner as Karl Lindner,
Miriam Hyman as Beneatha Younger and Mikaal Sulaiman as Walter
Lee Younger in “A Raisin in the Sun.”
10 University Gazette
Carolina working   at
The town of Pittsboro will always be home to Teretha
Rone. She was born and raised there and it’s where she has
lived all of her 54 years.
But Chapel Hill is a big part of her life now, too. Since
August 2004, it has been the place where she earns a living.
In that sense, Chapel Hill has become a home away from
home not only for Rone, but for three of her four siblings
as well.
She has a brother who works for the Town of Chapel Hill
and two sisters who, like Rone, work as housekeepers for
the University. Her sister Anita Rone started in 2002, Rone
followed in 2004 and her other sister, Schenika Garland,
started a couple of years later.
Rone’s life has had its ups and downs. Divorced after
eight years of marriage, she raised her two sons on her own.
Before coming to Carolina as a housekeeper, she had a job
on the cafeteria tray line at UNC Hospitals for 15 years.
Last January, Rone was transferred from taking care of
Hinton James Residence Hall to the dayshift at the School
of Government. It proved to be the right fit from the start,
so much so that people at the school joined with students
from Hinton James to nominate her for a C. Knox Massey
Distinguished Service Award. Rone was among the 2012
award winners.
At the School of Government, she has won the respect of
people like Danielle Phillips, a program manager there.
“Teretha is always busy around the building during the
day and takes so much pride in making sure everything is
clean,” she said. Rone takes on a lot and is always pleasant,
Phillips added.
Random Gott, an audio-visual technician at the school,
added, “This kind and good woman is of great value both in
what she does and how she does it.”
Susan Austin, career services director, said Rone had
demonstrated an “incredible work ethic – even in the face
of personal challenges.” Austin added, “Her work on a daily
basis is exemplary and she always rises to the occasion when
we have special events requiring additional touches.”
Brad Bednar, an applications analyst at the school,
described Rone as “an absolutely amazing person.”
In his nomination letter he wrote: “She’s always happy
and upbeat, and has the Herculean task of keeping our
building clean during the day. It’s her positive attitude, hard
work and the fact that she always has a smile on her face that
I think makes her well deserving of this award.”
Life can be hard, Rone has learned. But she has also
learned that work is often what you make it, and is almost
always better when approached with a cheerful attitude and
grateful heart.
She has even learned to smile when people incorrectly
call her “Teresa” instead of Teretha. She figures they
are just trying to be friendly, and there is nothing wrong
with that.
“I love my job,” Rone said.
Leadership in
workplace
sustainability
training
Employees play an integral role in advanc-ing
campus sustainability, one of Carolina’s
core values and priorities. People who want to
learn how to help their offices become more
economically, environmentally and socially
responsible can attend the upcoming work-shop,
“Making the Workplace More Sustain-able,”
offered by the UNC Sustainability Office
and Office of Waste Reduction and Recycling.
Last fall, 13 employees attended the inau-gural
workshop, and their feedback led
to expanded programming this year. The
upcoming two-day training will be held
from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Feb. 19 and
Feb. 21 at the Administrative Office Building
on Airport Drive.
The first day is dedicated to University sus-tainability
goals and initiatives; participants
will learn how to host sustainable events.
The second day is dedicated to the work-place
sustainability assessment tool, which
helps people identify, measure and promote
sustainable opportunities in different areas
including purchasing; energy; transportation;
water; waste reduction, recycling and reuse;
food and events; and health and wellness.
The assessment provides guidance for ways
that basic practices can make a big differ-ence
in common workplace situations. Take
printer cartridges, for example:
Switching to recycled printer cartridges
would help save 1 million gallons of oil a
year in the United States since about one-half
quart of petroleum goes into the plastic
for each cartridge.
Setting default printing options to black
and white and using electronic file sharing
prolongs the life of printer cartridges.
To recycle a printer cartridge at the end of
its use, employees can request that Central
Receiving pick it up, or they can send it
back to the manufacturer.
Visit itsapps.unc.edu/TrainDev to view the
course catalog and register for “Making the
Workplace More Sustainable.”
Rone approaches
her job, like her life,
with a smile
January 30, 2013 11
Treating people with chronic health conditions calls for
collaboration – among health-care professionals with
expertise in various areas as well as between organiza-tions
that deal with distinct aspects of health care.
Carolina Advanced Health, a joint venture of UNC Health
Care and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of N.C. (BCBSNC),
does both of those things. Launched a little more than a year
ago, the Chapel Hill-based medical practice takes a holis-tic
approach to improving patients’ health while reducing
health-care costs.
A comprehensive team of primary care physicians and other
health professionals – including a physician assistant, a nurse, a
nutritionist, a behaviorist, a clinical pharmacist and a care man-ager
– works with patients and their families to involve patients
in their health and create personal health goals.
The collaborative nature of Carolina Advanced Health is the
first of its kind in the state, said Thomas K. Warcup, the prac-tice’s
medical director.
The three-year pilot practice is designed to provide care for
BCBSNC members, including state employees, with chronic
conditions such as diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pres-sure,
asthma, COPD, depression and heart disease.
On-site services also include a laboratory for quick access to
lab results and a dedicated BCBSNC customer service repre-sentative
to answer health insurance questions.
“This holistic approach allows us to identify the underly-ing
factors and risks that contribute to chronic illness and
address them in an integrated manner,” said Carol Lewis,
a psychiatry instructor in the School of Medicine and the
lead project manager behind the design of Carolina Advanced
Health.
For information about the primary care practice, see
bit.ly/VLHmsZ.
Carolina Advanced Health provides holistic approach to patient care
study courses between 2001 and 2012, the
time period for which student-athlete data
was available.
Student-athletes comprised 45 percent of
the enrollment in these courses, Rose Tagle
said. Some courses had no student-athletes,
while a handful had all student-athletes,
but there was no consistent percentage of
student-athletes on a course-by-course basis,
she explained to the BOG panel.
“The percentage of student-athlete partici-pation
was consistent with non-athlete partici-pation
in that department and other depart-ments,”
Rose Tagle said.
Both the original and the follow-up analysis
showed a natural clustering in course enroll-ment
among various student affiliations,
including fraternities and sororities, residence
halls and student-athletes.
“The make-up of anomalous courses wasn’t
different from the non-anomalous courses or in
different departments,” Rose Tagle said. “Peo-ple
want to take classes with people they know.”
Both student-athletes and non-athletes
earned high grades in the suspect courses – a
3.56 and 3.63 grade-point average, respectively
– the new analysis found, something Martin
linked to grade inflation in higher education.
Student-athletes did receive temporary
grade changes more often than non-athletes
did, Rose Tagle said, but she and Martin
did not find this surprising. Given student-athletes’
schedules, it is often necessary for
them to make up a missed exam, which the
temporary grade could reflect, she explained.
But student-athletes were not as likely
to receive unauthorized permanent grade
changes as non-athletes, the findings showed.
Faculty awareness
Many factors affecting academic and admin-istrative
oversight led to a climate that sup-ported
the academic improprieties found
in African and Afro-American studies, Rose
Tagle explained to the BOG panel.
She clarified that Martin had not implied
that the Faculty Athletics Committee (FAC)
ignored red flags or had been warned about
anomalous courses up to a decade ago. In
hindsight, though, the initial report said, the
information the FAC reviewed may have rep-resented
a missed opportunity to look into the
issue further.
In 2002 and in 2006–07, the FAC had dis-cussed
the frequency of student-athletes tak-ing
independent study courses, but at the time,
Rose Tagle said, “no one understood the true
nature of what we’ve come to know as anoma-lous
courses and no one even suspected there
was an occurrence of academic misconduct.”
Lissa Broome, a law school faculty member
who was on the FAC in 2002 and 2006–07 and
now serves as the University’s Faculty Athletics
Representative, told the BOG panel that neither
she nor her colleagues on the committee during
those years were aware of any courses that were
listed as lecture courses but taught as anoma-lous
independent study courses.
“We all thought if it had been brought to our
attention, it would have raised a red flag and
we would have asked for additional informa-tion,”
Broome said.
The meeting minutes show that the FAC
asked advisers in the Academic Support Pro-gram
for Student-Athletes for information
about monitoring student-athletes’ indepen-dent
study enrollments and to report back if
there were concerns, she said.
Broome also wanted to make sure the panel
understood that the FAC and the general fac-ulty
would never use academic freedom to
justify academic improprieties or misconduct.
The Martin report indicated that some faculty
had suggested that academic freedom allowed
great latitude in teaching approved courses.
The issue was discussed during this month’s
Faculty Council meeting when history pro-fessor
Lloyd Kramer expressed concern that
a perception that faculty were unconcerned
about the integrity of courses could be used by
people who wanted to damage the autonomy
of academic freedom.
“We want to make sure that message isn’t
taken away from this discussion and we appre-ciate
Raina clarifying that in her remarks,”
Broome said.
Next steps
Rose Tagle said the analyses – and conclu-sions
– were final.
“We have had total access to every piece of
data we have asked for or desired to incorpo-rate
into this analysis,” she said. “Our analysis
and review have been exhaustive, and there is
nothing else we would want to look at.”
Lou Bissette, chair of the BOG Academic
Review Panel, said the group hoped to make
its report to the full board in February.
Academic Review from page 2
The original reports by former North
Carolina Gov. Jim Martin and manage-ment
consulting firm Baker Tilly, as well
as the addendum to Martin’s report,
are posted in the Reports section of the
Academic Review website, academic
review.unc.edu. An audio of the Jan. 25
BOG Academic Review Panel meeting
is available at bit.ly/Yc6oSI.
A WINTRY MIX
Though students started the semester Jan. 9 in shorts and flip-flops,
Carolina saw light snow in late evening Jan. 17, which lingered through
morning. The winter weather wasn’t enough to delay classes or work,
but left a gorgeous cap of white on the Old Well for students and
employees to enjoy as they made their way across campus. Just eight
days later, the threat of sleet and freezing rain canceled classes midday.
12 University Gazette
It was nearly 40 years ago, but Tom Bacon still remembers
the hour he spent sitting in Glenn Wilson’s office in Mac-
Nider Hall as if it were yesterday. Looking back, he sees it
as the hour that changed his career trajectory.
It took place in 1974, roughly two years after the N.C.
General Assembly awarded Carolina an $8.5 million grant to
develop a statewide system of area health education centers –
or what would come to be known as AHEC.
Wilson was its founding director; Bacon, at that time, a doc-toral
student in public health who wanted to learn what this
new organization was all about.
Bacon remembers Wilson standing in front of a North Caro-lina
map that filled almost the entire wall and pointing to nine
dots that spanned Asheville to Fayetteville to Wilmington.
And from those dots, Bacon could see Wilson’s vision for
training health professionals to meet the needs of rural and
other underserved communities take shape.
Early snowbirds
Bacon and his wife, Ellen, had been studying maps, too – in
1971 when they suffered through what they had decided would
be their last frigid winter in Chicago.
Bacon was from Florida, Ellen from Arkansas, and they
chose North Carolina because it was a place where snow was a
novel surprise.
They had been in Chicago so Bacon could earn a master’s
degree in demography from the University of Chicago. That
degree helped him get a job doing population research at the
Research Triangle Institute, which, in turn, equipped him with
the skills and experience he needed to get a part-time job at
AHEC about a year after his conversation with Wilson.
In 1977, as Bacon was about to finish his degree, Gene Mayer
– who was then AHEC’s deputy director, soon to become the
director – offered Bacon a position as associate director of
evaluation.
Bacon continued in that role until 1982 when he was hired to
lead the Mountain AHEC in Asheville. He returned to Chapel
Hill to succeed Mayer as AHEC director in 1996, a position he
will continue to hold under a successor is hired this spring.
Today, AHEC’s mission remains largely the same as in the
1970s: improving the distribution and retention of health-care
providers, with a special emphasis on primary care and pre-vention;
improving the diversity and cultural competence of
the health-care workforce; enhancing the quality of care and
improving outcomes; and addressing the health-care needs of
underserved communities and populations.
“I am very fortunate to have worked for this program for 35
years because it has a mission that I believe in and it attracts the
kind of people I love working with on this campus and in our
AHEC centers,” Bacon said.
“They are very talented people who are passionate about
providing care to people and training the next generation of
doctors, nurses, dentists, pharmacists and other health profes-sionals
that we will need.
“It was the best job in the state, and that’s why I stayed.”
Building on a legacy
As a new AHEC leader will look to
the future, Bacon said, it is important to
remember how far North Carolina has
come in terms of extending health care to
its neediest citizens.
During World War II, North Carolina led
the nation in the number of draftees rejected
from military services because of poor health.
“It resulted in the funding for this medi-cal
school and this hospital,” Bacon said. In
1944, then Gov. J. Melville Broughton appointed the commis-sion
that recommended funding for both.
“It is remarkable history and it connects to AHEC through
a series of visionary leaders, including Dr. W. Reece Berryhill,”
Bacon said.
Berryhill was the founding dean of the four-year medical
school, which was created to serve as “the medical school of the
people.” But when Berryhill stepped down as dean in 1964, he
realized that the mission of extending medical care throughout
the state remained incomplete. So he led an effort in the late
1960s known as Division of Research and Education in Com-munity
Medical Care – a forerunner to AHEC.
“He saw AHEC as the continued expression of this medical
school reaching out to serve the people of North Carolina,” Bacon
said, and that vision remains as powerful today as it was then.
The power of partnerships
Bacon has led efforts to modernize AHEC and extend its edu-cational
reach through the use of technology. He has worked to
make AHEC a vital resource for health-care providers as they seek
to transform the way care is delivered in an era of health reform.
In 2010, AHEC received $13.6 million from the U.S. Depart-ment
of Health and Human Resources to assist primary care
practices throughout the state in implementing electronic
health records – a technology that will become even more vital
in improving quality and lowering costs in the future.
Last June, while AHEC was preparing a celebration of its
40th anniversary, Bacon met with Wilson again – this time to
talk about how the program got started and to explore the mis-sion
AHEC might play in the next 40 years.
The two men talked about the support and vision of leaders
such as the late William Friday, who had recommended federal
support for AHEC in the early 1970s, and Ike Taylor, former
medical school dean and father of singer James Taylor, who
lobbied the N.C. General Assembly for AHEC’s initial funding.
They also spoke of the enduring value of partnerships in
AHEC’s success.
“The key to our program is to be very clear about what our
vision is, to be very clear about what our values are and to be
very clear about what we would like to see happen in the way of
improved health for the people of the state,” Bacon said.
Each year, AHEC supports thousands of students who are
placed with community providers to gain real-world clinical
experience and explore opportunities where they might ulti-mately
practice. Since 1978, 3,200 physicians have graduated
from AHEC residencies – most are in primary care, and more
than half still practice in North Carolina, Bacon said. These
graduates are more likely to practice in the state’s small towns
and rural areas, where they remain badly needed.
Nearly 200,000 health professionals each year attend AHEC
continuing education programs, many targeted to national
issues such as veteran’s mental health care, chronic illnesses in
the elderly or childhood obesity.
“Our programs are designed to take the best of what every-body
has to bring,” Bacon said. “It’s a little bit like conducting
an orchestra. Everybody has a part to play if we are going to be
able to achieve what we want to achieve.
“It goes back to Glenn Wilson’s concept of partnership.
AHEC is nothing without its partners – at the community level
and right here on campus.”
Looking to the future
Still, there are counties in North Carolina that lack a dentist
or a permanent physician or have an inadequate number of
nurses, Bacon said. The need is greatest in the state’s economi-cally
distressed areas, including the mountains, the northeast or
along the South Carolina border – just as when AHEC began.
Geography is no longer the only barrier, he said. Urban poor
lack health insurance, and a fast-growing, underserved His-panic
population sees language and culture as barriers to care.
Bacon is guardedly optimistic that the Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, can be a positive
force in eliminating some of these barriers.
Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the legislation was
constitutional, but at the same time, gave each state the right to
reject one of its major components: the expansion of Medicaid
to serve the working poor.
Of the nearly 10 million people in North Carolina, about
1.3 million are uninsured, Bacon said. Of those, roughly half
would be covered under Medicaid if the state decides to opt in,
and many more would be covered through the health insurance
exchange designed to offer small businesses and individuals
more affordable insurance options.
Within the uncertain health-care environment, AHEC’s
work will continue, Bacon said: “With its emphasis on training
primary care providers and offering training programs and sup-port
services across the state, I believe the program is well posi-tioned
for the future to help providers adapt to improve health
care for all North Carolinians.”
Bacon: AHEC’s success
reflects enduring power
of partnerships