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G66 N C. J)OCUMENTS 8 :B66 BOARD O F 17/ 1 G O V E R N O <ftE~ INGHOUSE c.2 The University of North Carolina / Spring 1994 The UNC Board of Governors has tapped Patsy Bostick Reed to be the next chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Asheville. UNC President C. D. Spangler, Jr., placed Reed's name in nomination during the board's April meeting. Reed, who takes office June 15, succeeds Lauren R. Wilson, who has served as interim chancellor since Samuel Schuman stepped down from the post last December. She becomes the first woman to lead UNCA and the sec ond to be elected a UNC chancellor by the Board of Governors. C In recommending Reed, Spangler said: C "Dr. Patsy Reed is an experienced and it seasoned administrator with an outstand ing record on the faculty of two state A standing ovation greets Patsy Bostick Reed (center) as she enters t he room following her unanimous universities. Throughout her career, she election as chancellor of UNC Asheville. Well-wishers (from left) include UNC Board of Governors members Samuel Neill, John Cecil, and Philip Carson. Her husband, Dewitt, is to the left of Or. Reed. At Reed continued on page 5 right are UNC associate vice presidents Cynthia Bonner and Judith Pulley. Fuse-Hall Named Bond Proceeds Spur UNC Construction UNC Secretary A flurry of building activity has begun !ems in 1989, no ground was broken on a on UNC campuses since the November 2 University building financed with state Rosalind Fuse-Hall is the new secre passage of the $310-million bond refer appropriations. Despite lingering voter tary of the 16-campus University of endum for University construction. The concerns about the state's economy and North Carolina. Named to the post in bonds will fund more than three dozen increased government spending, North January by the UNC Board of Governors, building and renovation projects for the Carolinians approved the UNC bonds by she succeeded D. G. Martin, Jr., who 16 UNC campuses, the NC School of a margin of 52 percent to 48 percent. became UNC's vice president for public Science and Mathematics, and the UNC Thomas I. Storrs of Charlotte, retired affairs last year. Center for Public 'lelevision. chairman of NationsBank Corp., coordi As secretary, Fuse-Hall, 36, is the UNC had developed a massive con nated an intensive statewide campaign to primary liaison between UNC President struction backlog during several years of convince voters of the pressing need for C. D. Spangler, Jr., the Board of Gover· tight state budgets that left no money to nors, and campus trustees. She also the new projects and to demonstrate the fund new buildings. For three years economic benef_its of a major UNC con- Fuse-Hall continued on page 2 after the state was beset by budget prob- construction continued on page 2 2 DOA RD OF GOVERNORS Q UARTERLY/ SPRING 1994 Fuse-Hall from page 1 Construction from page 1 its collection in a rented warehouse several miles from campus. struction program. North Carolinians Construction bids have been solicited for Our University, Our Future-the for other UNC bond projects, including umbrella organization led by Storrs an $8.8-million academic support ser raised S1. 1 million to support passage of vices building at Appalachian State Uni the referendum. versity, a $34.9-million engineering In March, Pembroke State University graduate research center at NC State became the first UNC campus to break University, a $4-million conference cen ground on a bond-financed facility. ter at UNC Asheville, and $2.5 million in UNC President C. D. Spangler, Jr., along improvements to the North Carolina with state and campus officials, turned Arboretum. Additional projects are in the first spades of dirt for a $5.7-million various stages of design. administration building. PSU's current In May, the UNC Board of Governors building, now more than 40 years old, is asked the N.C. General Assembly for seriously overcrowded. final authorization to build five self A few weeks after the PSU ground- liquidating projects that received partial t breaking, UNC Charlotte broke ground financing from the bond issue. These '::.;.,L(J~ .:::~~~:: .a .: on a long-awaited classroom and aca projects include renovation of the - j demic-support facility. This $22.6- Chidley Hall dormitory complex at NC million project includes a three-story Central University and construction of a Rosalind Fuse-Hall classroom building for the College of student services-cafeteria-student union works with the board, the president, and Arts and Sciences and a classroom addi complex at Winston-Salem State Univer other senior staff members to develop tion for the College of Business. sity. Three other bond-supplemented policy for the University. East Carolina University coordinated projects will be built at UNC-Chapel Since 1989, Fuse-Hall had been associ its groundbreaking for a $28.9-million Hill: a six-floor addition to the School of ate dean in the College of Arts and Sci addition to Joyner Library with May Dentistry, an addition to the Lineberger ences at UNC-Chapel Hill, where she graduation ceremonies. ECU outgrew Comprehensive Cancer Center, and a di rected academic, personal, and career the library, built in 1954, years ago. new home for the Kenan-Flagler Busi counseling programs for some 1,500 Three years ago, the scarcity of shelf ness School. The portion of these five minority undergraduates. She previously space and a severe shortage of seating projects to be financed through the bond served as assistant di rector of minority forced the library to begin storing part of issue totals $47.5 million. 0 affairs at St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y. Before entering university administration, Fuse-Hall worked for two years as a staff attorney in the U.S. Secu rities and Exchange Commission's Divi sion of Enforcement in New York City. A native of Fayetteville, Fuse-Hall graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1980 with a bachelor's degree in criminal justice. She earned her law degree from the Rutgers School of Law in New Jersey. An alumna of Leadership America, a national leadership-development program for women, Fuse-Hall also has partici pated in BRIDGES, a program recently launched at UNC-Chapel Hill to provide leadership training for women faculty and administrators on UNC campuses. Fuse-Hall is married to Jarvis Hall, an instructor in the School of Commerce at Washington and Lee University and a Pembroke State University was the first UNC campus to break ground o n a facility approved in the doctoral candidate in political science at November 2 bond referendum. Participating in ceremonies for a S5.7-million administration building were (from left} PSU Board of Trustees Chairman Marion Bass, Chancellor Joseph Oxendine, N.C. Duke University. They have one daugh Secretary of Administration Katie Dorsett, UNC President C. D. Spangler, Jr., and PSU Student ter, Ifetoya Mandelisa, age 3. 0 Government Association Vice President Terrence Brewton. BOARD OF GOVERNORS QUARTERLY / SPRING 1994 3 UNC Wilmington Professor Receives 0. Max Gardner Award Gerald H. Shinn, professor of philoso phy and religion at UNC Wilmington, received the 1994 0. Max Gardner Award during the UNC Board of Gover nors' May meeting. Shinn was honored for his commitment to improving human welfare and his lifelong efforts to foster international understanding. The annual award was established by the will of Gov. 0. Max Gardner to rec ognize faculty who have •made the great est contributions to the welfare of the human race." It is the only award for which all faculty members of the 16 UNC campuses are eligible. The 1994 award carries a S7,500 cash prize and was presented by UNC President C. D. Spangler, Jr., and Gardner Award Com mittee Chairman John A. Garwood. A 26-year veteran of the UNCW fac ulty, Shinn is best known as the driving O. Max Gardner Award winner Gerald Shinn (center) is congratulated by (from left) UNC President C. 0. Spangler, Jr., UNC Board of Governors Chairman Samuel Poole, Gardner Award Committee Chairman force behind the creation of the Albert John Garwood, and UNC Wi lmington Chancellor James Lcutzo. Schweitzer International Prizes. These prizes are presented every four years by UNCW to individuals who reflect Spangler Foundation Endows Professorships Schweitzer's philosophy of "reverence for life• and who excel in his areas of exper· UNC President C. D. Spangler, Jr., before serving for two decades as UNC's tise, namely, medicine, the humanities, announced in January that the C. D. senior vice president for academic af and music. Shinn also founded the N.C. Spangler Foundation would donate $ I fairs. Daniels chaired NCSA's Board of Educational, Historical, and Scientific million per year for the next ten years to Trustees from 1989 to 1992. Foundation; the UNCW Institute for the University of North Carolina. To be Other chairs endowed through the gift Human Potential, and the UNCW Mu distributed among the 16 UNC campuses will honor former UNC Board of Gover seum of World Cultures. His Parnassus at the foundation's discretion, the S 10 nors Chairman Robert L. Jones !East on Wheels project is a one-man effort to million will create a distinguished pro Carolina University]. Board of 'lrustees combat illiteracy in the state. He estab fessor endowment trust fund on each Chairman E. V. Wilkins !Elizabeth City lished the annual Living 'Ireasure of campus or help complete ongoing cam State University). Chancellor Lloyd V. North Carolina Award and the biennial paigns to endow specific professorships. Hackley (Fayetteville State University], National Living 'Ireasure Award; both •rn my eight years at the University,• and Speaker of the House Daniel T.