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Jeff Chen
incoming co-president of
the Campus Y
"I would like to see a chan
cellor who continues to
uphold the long-standing
traditions of public service
and diversity at Carolina and
to also realize that there are
still some improvements
that can be made and to
facilitate those improve
ments in a positive way."
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Doug Crawford-Brown
director of the Institute for
the Environment
"I'm always one for a very,
very open process where
anybody gets to see what's
going on. But these are sort
of touchy positions in the
sense that the chancellor
that we'll get at UNC prob
ably has been a chancellor
somewhere else or is at the
next level down —a pro
vost or something else.”
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Hanna Samad
UNC freshman
"I don't really get what the
chancellor has to do with
us on a daily basis. Students
probably should be more
informed. If I knew more I
could probably have more
of an opinion, but I don't
think students really know
why they should care."
Emil Kang
UNC executive director for
the arts
"It's not something one can
conduct in an open man
ner. ... UNC is a different
animal: It's a state institu
tion, so there' a lot of pres
sure for freedom of informa
tion. ... I've been amazed
at the transparency of
everything."
Katrina Ryan
owner of Sugarland on
Franklin Street and former
candidate for the Carrboro
Board of Aldermen
"UNC owns a lot of land
around here, and it has a
lot of money to spend. ...
There are going to be a lot of
changes on Franklin Street
in the next five years, and a
lot of it is University-driven
rather than town-driven."
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FROM STAFF REPORTS
When the chancellor search committee meets
today, the 21 members will walk into a room
and sit down. Shortly thereafter, those doors
will close to the rest of the community.
Behind those doors, they probably will discuss candi
dates for the position, consider qualities they want to see
and maybe even weed out a few applicants.
But until July 1, no one else will know exactly what goes
on in that room.
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Any individual who wants to can write to the head of the
search committee. I can't say for sure, but based on what
I know of him as a person, I think he would take any input
like that seriously.
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Virginia Carson
director of the Campus Y, UNC alumna
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Women Faculty and Professionals
(The AWFP is) strongly urging the committee to look at
women and minority candidates who have been histori
cally underrepresented from the top positions of leader
ship at the University. We think it's a really good time to
look a little broader and to take a look at some folks who
might not have been considered in the past. 99
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It's not so much where the person comes from as it is that
they get this place, that they understand it, that they under
stand the relationship of this University to the state of North
Carolina. Steve A ,, red
executive associate provost /
Chancellor search
Daniel Gitterman
professor of public policy
(The committee is) probably a little
short on students. I also have concerns
that it was short on assistant and asso
ciate professor representation. There is
a huge wave of retirements predicted,
and I think there's a newer generation
I include myself in, and we are not par
ticipating in the search.
Cindy Spurlock
president-elect of the Graduate
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Federation
I want someone who is open to new
ideas and who listens to some people
who aren't administrators. I think our
administrators have good ideas, but
the students are the ones who are in
the trenches sometimes.
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DTWELYSSA SHARP
And while several say its important that those doors
remain closed, the community is forming its own opin
ion.
Several opinions, in fact. And they range from wanting
the next chancellor to come from within the University to
suggesting a leader with business experience.
So until those doors fully open, the community’s role will
remain one of advice only.
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Brenda Denzler
* k professor of public policy
The truth of the matter is that the kinds of people that
you get to serve on a committee and the background
and the skills that they bring do shape the direction that
that committee is going to take, whatever it's doing. So
if you get a dozen captains of industry, two faculty and
two staff people, which direction do you think the com
mittee is ultimately going to go?
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Bill Funk
head consultant of R. William Funk & Associates, which is
helping UNC's chancellor search committee
The candidates that seem to be getting the most atten
tion from the committee are individuals who ... have
been in significant leadership roles, managed significant
budgets or numbers of faculty or staff or departments.
They're pretty senior level administrators in academia
sterling academic credentials. *
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The days are gone when leadership of higher education
cannot include a focus on internationalization. ||
Marjorie Crowell
assistant provost for international programs UNC alumna
Judith Wegner
professor in the School
of Law
"It really doesn't do us well
to pretend we're a business
when we're an institution
for higher education. ...
The chancellor isn't running
a bank or a business of that
type. It really is an educa
tional undertaking."
Bill Barney
professor of history
"I think they have certain
parameters in mind that
by definition exclude some
sorts of people, but that's
just a hunch of mine. There's
probably a bias toward
wealth and a business back
ground and focus on fund
raising. I would like them to
stress creativity and vision
more."
COURTESY OF DANIEL KIM
Ted Zoller
executive director
of UNC's Center for
Entrepreneurial Studies
"No matter what the back
ground of the chancellor
is, there needs to be a per
son in the administration
representing the needs
of the faculty. The chan
cellor doesn't necessarily
need to come from that
background to be suc
cessful as long as they've
included the faculty in a
senior role."
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Erica Rafferty
vice president of the Out-of
. State Student Association
"We want a chancellor that
will work with out-of-staters
and wants to make sure that
out-of-state students get the
same treatment as every
one else when it comes to
tuition."
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Holden Thorp
dean of College of Arts and
Sciences
"I trust whatever they come
to."
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