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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. Blue, identify and publicly recognize outstand· said Spangler, •1 have become increas­ Jr. INC Central University]. The ing artisans, bringing them to ingly convinced that if we are to have a foundation's first installment also will Wilmington to demonstrate their skills to great university, we must have great bolster ongoing campaigns to endow the students and the local community. professors. By helping to provide distin­ Alan T. Dickson Distinguished Univer­ The board's citation reads in part: guished professorships, we can improve sity Professorship in Management at NC "Professor Shinn is a man with a multi­ the competitiveness of our University in State University and the Paul Fulton tude of ideas, but more importantly, he is seeking and retaining powerful profes­ Distinguished Professorship at Winston­ a man who acts on his ideas and his sors.• Salem State University. goals. Though he often acts quietly, his Among the chairs to be established are Spangler has in recent years helped impact reverberates around the world. the Raymond H. Dawson Distinguished endow several other distinguished pro­ ... Through personal example and his Professorship in Political Science at fessorships on UNC campuses. In 1991, life's work on behalf of others, Dr. Shinn UNC-Chapel llill and the Julia Jones in the wake of steep legislative cuts to has demonstrated the powerful effect Daniels Distinguished Professorship at the University's proposed budget, one person can have in changing the the NC School of the Arts. Now a pro· Spangler and his family foundation made human condition for the better, both fessor of political science at UNC gifts totaling S2 million to the 16 locally and worldwide.• 0 Wilmington, Dawson ta~ht at UNC-CH campuses. 0 4 BOARD OF GOVERNORS QUARTERLY/ SPRING 1994

Three UNC Chancellors Announce Retirement Plans In the opening weeks of 1994, three assistant to the president at the State UNC chancellors announced plans to University of New York at Stony Brook. relinquish their posts. Western Carolina University Chancellor Myron L. Coulter UNC-Chapel Hill and UNC Greensboro Chancellor Will­ Hardin, 63, announced his retirement iam R. Moran will step down this sum­ more than a year in advance. Chancellor mer, while UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor since 1988, he will step down in conjunc­ Paul Hardin will retire in June of 1995. tion with the completion of a $400-mil­ lion bicentennial campaign. Hardin is Western Carolina University credited with improving relations be­ After a decade as chancellor at WCU, tween the campus and local community, Coulter, 65, will retire June 30. Since he pushing for greater fiscal flexibility for arrived at WCU in 1984, enrollment has all UNC campuses, and dealing with inched upward and freshman SAT scores deep-rooted controversies, including have risen over 40 points. During his long-standing efforts to build a free­ tenure, Coulter has stressed service to standing black cultural center. the region and outreach to the world Hardin came to UNC-CH after 13 community. He has led delegations to The years as president of Drew University in Netherlands, China, Thailand, Swaziland, New Jersey. He also is a former presi­ and Jamaica to establish or strengthen dent of Southern Methodist University in agreements for educational exchanges Dallas and Wofford College in South and vocational and teacher training. He Carolina. He holds undergraduate and law UNC-CH Chancellor Paul Hardin, s hown here at a will remain on the WCU faculty. degrees from Duke University. 0 recent ground-breaking, retires in 1995. Coulter's career in education spans 42 years, including eight years as president of Idaho State University and ten years at Western Michigan University, where Board Reviews Chancellor Selection Process he served as interim president, vice With chancellor searches underway Patsy Bostick Reed as the next chancellor president for administration, and vice on three UNC campuses, a joint commit­ of UNC Asheville. [See the story on page president for institutional services. A tee of the UNC Board of Governors is l.] Both of the finalists recommended to former high school teacher, Coulter pondering ways to ensure that qualified Spangler for the post were women. graduated from Indiana State Teacher's women can win top administrative posts At the request of Board of Governors College and earned master's and doc­ within the University. Chairman Samuel H. Poole, the board's toral degrees from Indiana University. Speaking to the UNC Board of Gover­ committees on governance and person­ nors in January, UNC President C. D. nel and tenure have been meeting jointly UNC Greensboro Spangler, Jr. , admonished: •we have 16 since February to address the need for Moran, 61, has led UNCG through chancellors; every one is a male. For greater diversity among its top adminis­ nearly 15 years of extensive growth. whatever reasons, that's the way this has trators. Subcommittees are examining Under his guidance, enrollment has risen happened. During my eight years (as recruitment techniques employed in 20 percent; capital-improvement projects president]. I have participated in about UNC chancellor searches; stressing to totaling $125 million have been ap­ 13 chancellor searches and have had an existing search committees the impor­ proved; and UNCG's endowment has opportunity to interview about 30 candi­ tance of attracting qualified women; and increased elevenfold, to $42.4 million. dates that got to my office. Every single assessing the adequacy of current board Moran, who will remain on the UNCG candidate has been a male. policies governing chancellor selection. faculty, steps down as UNC's senior "So the problem is perfectly obvious. The chancellor search process is a chancellor in length of service. Whatever we are doing-you, I, the major responsibility delegated to the A graduate of Princeton University, boards of trustees-has the effect of boards of trustees by the Board of Gover­ Moran earned a master of business ad­ ruling out 50 percent of the people in the nors. After a search involving trustee, ministration degree from Harvard Uni­ United States or in the world. This is not faculty, alumni, and student representa­ versity and a doctorate from the Univer­ the wave of the future. This is not going tives, the trustees must recommend at sity of Michigan. Before coming to to be the right way.' least two candidates to the UNC presi­ UNCG in 1979, Moran served for eight Spangler's eight-year streak of all-male dent for his consideration. On nomina­ years as chancellor of the University of candidates came to an end in April, tion by the president, the final candidate Michigan at Flint. He was previously when the Board of Governors elected is elected by the Board of Governors. 0 OOARO or GOVERNORS QUARTEHLY /SPRING 1994 5

Documentary Explores Free Inquiry at UNC-CH Snapshot: The Student Body

The UNC Center for Public 'Ielevision Total Fall Enrollment Minorities.. Women Freshman SAT has presented its own bicentennial gift to Institution 1993 Change• 1993 1992 1993 1993 Change• UNC-Chapel Hill: 'Crossroads on the ASU 11,641 -0.1% 4.0% 4.0% 6,064 990 + 8 Hill,• a 90-minute documentary that ECU 17,729 ·0.2% 9.3% 9.0% 10,041 920 +20 examines UNC as a champion of intellec­ ECSU 2,190 +6.4% 26.6% 25.7% 1,301 787 . 2 tual inquiry and free speech, while revis­ FSU 4,032 +3.3% 32.7% 32.6% 2,654 816 + 6 iting divisive moments in the university's NCA&T 7,973 +5.2% 11.3% 11.5% 4,088 825 + 4 history that threatened those academic NCCU 5,635 ·0.6% 13.8% 14.2% 3.516 780 +24 freedoms. NCSA 610 +19.6% 6.2% 5.9% 272 1043 +42 The film, which aired in April, was NCSU 27,170 +0.1% 9.2% 9.1% 10,738 1071 + 2 written, produced, and di rected by UNC­ PSU 3.045 +0.1% 12.1% 11.0% 1,813 818 . 8 CH alumnus Gary Hawkins, an award­ UNCA 3,130 ·3.4% 3.8% 3.5% 1.710 1055 +11 winning documentary producer from UNC-CH 23,913 +1.2% 8.6% 8.7% 13,792 1126 + 4 Thomasville. Rich with period photo­ UNCC 15,645 +1.8% 12.8% 11.7% 7,966 926 . 6 graphs, archival footage, and home mov­ UNCG 12.114 -0.5% 11.2% 11.1% 7,797 956 . 2 ies donated by alumni and scavenged UNCW 8,157 +3.3% 6.4% 5.9% 4,778 935 0 from unlikely places, the program fo. wcu 6,368 -3.2% 3.7% 3.2% 3.294 867 + 4 cuses primarily on the speaker-ban de­ wssu 2,976 +8.1% 24.4% 21.6% 1,767 774 +31 bate of the 1960s, efforts during the 1920s to outlaw the teaching of evolu­ UNC Total 152,328 0.9% 81,591 967 + 8 tion, and the turmoil at the university ·increase or decline from previous year. ..Of total enrollmenl. percent of blacks enrolled at PSU and at historically white campuses, and during the Civil War and Reconstruction. whites at historically black campuses. PSU's American Indian enrollment: 715 (23.5%), down from Hawkins set out to make a film, he 721 (23.7%) in 1992. says, that "didn't see the world through Carolina-blue glasses.' The results were a hit with reviewers and editorial writ­ Reed continued from page 1 ers. Jerry Shinn of the Charlotte Observer has been an active and effective partici­ pleted a three-year stint as associate called the film "unflinchingly honest• pant in her community and at the re• director of the Academic Leadership and implored, "With enough money, gional and state levels. The University Institute of the American Association of ambition, and imagination, the Center of North Carolina at Asheville is fortu­ State Colleges and Universities. for Public Television can do more work nate to gain a leader with this wealth of A native of Port Arthur, 'lex., Reed of this quality, tapping the rich lore of a talent and commitment." graduated from the University of 'Iexas fascinating state full of contrasts and Since 1987, Reed, 57, has been vice at Austin and taught in 'Iexas high conflicts.' president for academic affairs at North· schools for six years thereafter. She then The Observer's TV critic, Tim Funk, em Arizona University in Flagstaff. returned to UT-A, where she earned a also praised the film: 'Hawkins . . . From July 1993 through February 1994, master's degree in nutrition and a doc­ makes clear in the fi lm's opening min­ she served as interim president of the torate in biological sciences. After post­ utes that 'this is only one history of the public university, which enrolls approxi­ doctoral work in physical chemistry at university, one way of knowing where mately 18,500 students and offers de­ the University of Virginia, she spent two we are by looking at where we've been: grees through the doctoral level. A years as a research chemist at the Uni­ There's room for other films and other biochemist and nutritionist, Reed joined versity of Heidelberg in Germany. visions. But I pity whoever comes next. the NAU faculty in 1979 as chair of the Reed has written and lectured widely 'Crossroads on the Hill' will be a very, Department of Home Economics. She on nutrition and issues affecting higher very hard act to follow.• later served as dean of the School of education, including distance learning, Critic Bob Langford of the Raleigh News Applied Sciences/College of Design and cultural diversity, teacher education, and & Observer wrote: "This might be the Technology and as associate vice presi­ women in academia. She serves on the best thing that UNC-TV has ever done.• dent for academic affairs. She previ­ Accreditation Review Council of the 'Crossroads" researcher Helen Wolfe ously taught at Idaho State University. North Central Association of Colleges Evans says she and associate producer Reed has been chosen Outstanding and Schools' Commission on Institutions Janice Wellerstein received superb coop­ Faculty Woman at NAU and received the of Higher Education. eration and assistance from staff- campus-wide Distinguished Teacher Reed is married to F Dewitt Reed, a Docum entary continued on page 12 Award while at ISU. She recently com- medicinal chemist. 0 6 BOARD OF GOVERNORS QUARTERLY/ SPRING 1994 Board of Governors Creates Systemwide Teaching Awards

Following recommendations of the ad may range from $250 to $2,500. at later specified intervals, all UNC fac­ hoc Committee on University Teaching The joint Committee on Tenure and ulty must be given, in writing, the Awards, the UNC Board of Governors Teaching also called for a review of all campus's criteria for evaluating faculty voted in March to create its first system­ institutional mission statements and performance. These criteria should be wide awards for teaching. The Board of tenure policies to ensure that they explic­ discussed with both prospective and Governors' Awards for Excellence in itly acknowledge the primacy of teach­ current faculty, and records of all such Teaching, to be given for the first time in ing. The report states, "The Board of discussions should be maintained in 1994-95, will honor a faculty member Governors' expectation is clear: while each faculty member's personnel file. from each of the 16 University of North neither teaching nor research nor service The board also set general guidelines for Carolina campuses. The annual awards is to be the sole measure of faculty per­ conducting student and peer evaluations will carry a $7,500 cash prize. formance at any institution, teaching of faculty and called for more effective The awards are an outgrowth of Ten­ should be the first consideration at all of training, monitoring, and evaluation of ure and Teaching in the University of North the UNC institutions." graduate students who teach courses on Carolina, a joint report by the board's Furthermore, before being hired and UNC campuses. 0 Committees on Personnel and 'Ienure and Educational Planning, Policies, and Programs. To underscore the importance of teaching and to encourage, identify, A&T, NCSU Space Programs Flying High reward, and support good teaching within the University, the report made More than ten years of hard work and current students will accompany their several recommendations in addition to patience have finally paid off for the 100-pound payload to the Kennedy Space the creation of a systemwide teaching Student Space Shuttle Program at NC Center in Florida, where three students award. It was adopted unanimously by A&T State University. In April, program will get to help NASA technicians install the board last September. director Stuart Ahrens was notified by it. Ahrens is hoping for a reunion of Recipients of the new awards will be officials at the National Aeronautics and former and current students at the Au­ screened and nominated by campus Space Administration (NASA) that two gust launch. selection committees and approved by experiments designed and proposed by When Discovery lifted off in February, the Board of Governors' Committee on A&T students will Oy aboard the space it carried NCSU's orbital ejector, a spe­ Teaching Awards. Nomination portfolios shuttle Endeavour, scheduled for launch cial radar-calibration device designed to provided to the Board of Governors must in August. The notification came just launch six polished metal spheres into demonstrate exceptional teaching over a two months after the space shuttle Dis­ space. The spheres are being used to sustained period of time. To be eligible, covery carried into orbit an experimental calibrate ground-based radar and tele­ faculty members must be tenured and device designed and built by under­ scopes that NASA uses to track deadly have at least seven years' experience graduate engineering students at NC bits of space debris that can threaten teaching at the nominating institution. State University. satellites and other space vehicles. Recipients must be teaching in the aca­ Organized at the suggestion of alum­ Under the guidance of NCSU's Larry demic year in which they are selected, nus Ronald McNair-the astrophysicist Silverberg, 39 students helped create the and none will be eligible to receive the killed in the 1986 explosion of the shuttle initial design for the ejector device, award more than once while teaching in Challenger-A&T's program has involved while a select group of nine students the UNC system. a succession of students majoring in built the hardware. 0 In keeping with a legislative directive, physics, engineering, the Board of Governors will devote biology, technology, $250,000 to the teaching awards program communications, and during each year of the current bien­ business. Participants nium. Half the money will go to the hope their upward­ systemwide prizes, and the remainder bound experiments will will be allocated among the 16 campuses answer two questions: \ to create or expand their own teaching­ 'How does zero-gravity recognition programs. A larger share of affect the growth and this fund will go to smaller institutions development of certain with limited resources and to campuses crystals?" and 'Can the that currently offer no teaching awards milkweed bug survive of their own. Individual campus teach­ and mate in space?' A&T Student Space Shuttle Program director Stuart Ahrens (left) with ing awards made from these allocations In June, Ahrens and students Emmanuel Williams, Bren·1 Chafin, and LaOuinta Smith. 80ARDOPCOVERNOHSQUARTERLY/SPRINC 1994 7 BRIDGES Prepares UNC Women for Leadership Roles

A group of 30 young women from UNC-Chapel Hill, NC State University, and UNC Greensboro came together each Wednesday evening last fall to hone the skills and abilities they will need·to succeed as leaders in higher education. They comprised the inaugural class of BRIDGES, a program developed at UNC­ Chapel Hill to encourage the advance­ ment of women into top academic posts. The eclectic group included women fac­ ulty members, medical doctors, a police captain, attorneys, and administrators. Using small-group discussions, panels, question-and-answer sessions, and role playing, BRIDGES aimed to help partici­ pants develop their own leadership styles while reinforcing the talents of others. Guided by an advisory panel of women faculty and administrators from UNC­ Chapel Hill and UNC General Adminis­ tration, program instructors helped par­ Graduates of the first BRIDGES program gather to celebrate. Front row (left to right): Teresa Crossland, ticipants ponder many of the financial, Jane Brown, program director Rachel Davies, Rachel Willis, Marion Danis, Phyllis Cooper, and Francoise political and legal challenges faced by Seillier-Moiseiwitsch, all of UNC-CH. Second row: Anita Farel, Lela W. Brink, Linda Dykstra, Elizabeth S. academic institutions; sharpen skills Mann, Sharon Grayden, Rosalind Coleman, and Nancy Chescheir, all of UNC-CH. Third row: Deborah Bender, UNC-CH; Darlene Sekerak, UNC-CH; Jane Burns. UNC-CH; Joanne Woodard, NCSU; Stephanie needed for effective facilitation and Adams, NCSU; and Terry Wall, NCSU. Fourth row: Dorothy Bernholz, UNC-CH; Marilyn Scott, UNC-CH; negotiation; and learn strategies for bal­ and Rosalind Fuse-Hall, UNC General Administration. ancing their personal and professional lives. Scholarships helped some partici­ pants defray the $1,500 tuition. Graduates of the first class gave UNC Trims School-Administrator Programs BRIDGES good marks, but organizers are To comply with legislation passed by school administration to design the fine-tun ing the curriculum and strength­ the 1993 session of the General Assem­ framework and selection criteria for the ening the faculty for fall 1994. 'We've bly, the UNC Board of Governors is new degree program. This same panel tried to change the course format and taking steps to reduce Lo no more than will review submitted proposals and expand the content to reflect input from seven the number of UNC campuses that make recommendations to the board. previous participants,' explains program offer graduate programs in educational The panel includes Hunter Moorman, director Rachel Davies. leadership. Eleven of the 12 UNC cam­ director of the Schools and School Pro­ The 11 sessions of BRIDGES '94 will puses that now offer such programs are fessional Division of the U.S. Depart­ be spaced to allow for more independent competing for authorization to offer a ment of Education; Gail T. Schneider, study, and last year's participants will new keystone degree program- the interim dean of the School of Education have a chance to serve as mentors for master's of school administration. All at the University of Wisconsin-Milwau­ the new class. Several graduates of the graduate programs in the field at the five kee; Lonnie Wagstaff, professor of educa­ first class also have joined the BRIDGES institutions not chosen for the keystone tional administration at the University of advisory board. While the number of degree will be phased out. 'Texas at Austin; and Richard Wallace, co­ participants will remain at 30, efforts Prompted by a report of the General director of the Superintendents Academy will be made to draw more women from Assembly's Educational Leadership Task at the University of Pittsburgh. unrepresented UNC campuses and from Force, the legislation is intended to help Campuses vying for the new program private institutions. "The program should balance the supply and demand for fu­ submitted their proposals in May. The be valuable to women in other universi­ ture school administrators in the state national panel will review them during ties around the state, so we want lo in­ and to concentrate UNC's resources on the summer and offer its assessment to vite them to participate,• says Davies. fewer but higher quality programs. the Board of Governors no later than Tuition for BRIDGES '94 will be Last fall, the Board of Governors as­ September. The board is expected to $1,200. 0 sembled a national panel of experts in announce a fina l decision in November. 0 8 BOARD OF GOVERNORS QUARTERLY / SPRING 1994 Leiva Sets Standard for Teaching Excellence at UNCC

Miriam Leiva is the first Bonnie E. asked me to chair a study of the state­ classroom and ask myself if I am using Cone Distinguished Professor of Teach­ wide math curriculum. So you see, even my own supposedly very good tech­ ing at UNC Charlotte, a title five of in the late 1970s, North Carolina was niques to teach my own students. As a UNCC's most gifted teachers will even­ looking al school reform, and that was result, I prepare my own lessons meticu­ tually hold. well before the national movement. We lously so that I won't let down in front of A member of the UNCC education worked until 1983 and revised the stale my own classes. faculty since 1966, Leiva has earned an curriculum to the point that it is now a Q: You were born in Cuba, I believe. international reputation for her efforts to model for the nation. A: Yes, in 1940, and I came here in understand how children learn math­ Q: What were some of your recom­ 1954 to Florida. My family came for a ematics and to help teachers bring math mendations? better life. That was before the Castro to life for students. The co-author or A: One was that algebra be required revolution in 1960. editor of 11 books on teaching methods, of all students. That's being imple­ Q: How did you get to North Caro­ she has served as director of the board of mented now, but it was revolutionary to lina? the National Council of Teachers of suggest back in the '80s. We felt that we A: We were Quakers. My family sent Mathematics and recently completed a had to open doors. If a student hasn't me to Guilford College because that was two-year appointment as director of the had algebra, a lot of doors are closed to a the closest Quaker school. Teacher Preparation Program of the lot of careers and professions. Q: And you taught public school in National Science Foundation. Q: Has your state and national Greensboro. Did that influence your Here, Leiva shares some thoughts on work impacted your own teaching? ca reer? teaching and her career. A: It's scary. I travel all over doing A: Yes, it told me what I thought I Q: What does this recognition demonstrations and modeling good wanted to do was right for me. And it mean to you? teaching. Then, I come back to my own gave me the insight that I wasn't really A: It says that when it comes to teaching mathematics; I was teaching teaching vs. research, we have not students. It was really a "master slighted one for the other. I see that teacher" I had as a master's-degree stu­ there are many good teachers here, and I dent at UNC-Chapel Hill, the late Dr. feel that I represent them with this pro­ Alfred Brauer, who taught me to "teach fessorship. as though your pay depended upon it.• Q: Where did your interest in better Q: What about your future? preparation of math teachers begin? A: I have a vision that we will really A: Back in the late '60s, our depart­ be able to change students at the pre­ ment received a National Science Foun­ college level by changi ng what happens dation grant to help retrain teachers who as we [train] their teachers while they were coming back to improve their math are in college. teaching skills. I was assigned to the Q: Have you been able to transfer project. When I began comparing notes your enthusiasm a nd teaching skills with those school teachers, we all discov­ to school teachers you have had in ered that just standing up lecturing about your classes? math wasn't doing it. I then began de­ A: One in particular. Carol Fry was a veloping some materials they could use. Charlottean who taught al Quail Hollow Q: Were you successful, and where School. She got her master's degree and did that lead? went on to get a doctorate and is now A: Yes. Word of our success-was director of mathematics education at San picked up by people at the state level. Jose State University in California. Right Then we were commissioned by the now, we have two ful l-time school teach­ Mathematics Division of the State De­ ers in residence with us, sharing their partment of Public Instruction to develop knowledge of what it's like out there in kits of materials for teachers. Over sev­ the schools. Both are former UNC Char­ eral years we developed three different lotte students. I have tried to make my kits for use at the primary, intermediate, students feel confident about their abil­ and secondary school levels. ity to do mathematics. I am pleased to Q: How was that program used see girls who are math majors. When I Last year Miriam Leiva was named the first was at Chapel Hill, even, I was told that throughout the state? Bonnie E. Cone Di stinguished Professor of A: State Department officials then Teaching at UNC Charlotte. I was pretty good in math- for a girl. 0 BOARD OF GOVERNORS QUARTEHLY / Sl'HJNG 1994 9

An added rite of spring at Appala­ chian State University was the April installation of Francis T Borkowski as the institution's fifth chancellor. Here, ASU Board of 1}ustees Chairman Rich­ ard T Howerton III (far right) adminis­ ters the oath of office as UNC President C. D. Spangler, Jr., looks on. Former U.S. Secretary of State Lawrence S. Eagleburger, a longtime friend of Borkowski's, delivered the installation address.

NCSU Project Takes Science on the Road New Institute Strives to Improve Teaching To help bring rural high-school stu­ 'It isn't that the computer allows you dents the same caliber of chemistry and do the experiment; it just allows you to Representatives of the 16 University physics instruction that their urban peers do the experiment better, so that you can of North Carolina campuses, along with get, NC State University has hit the road easily gain more information," explains higher-education leaders and state legis­ with a special program that combines a NCSU chemistry professor Alton J. Banks, lators, gathered at Western Carolina portable computer laboratory and on­ one of three 'learn Science coordinators. University in October for the inaugural campus teacher traini ng. The program began last summer with program of the new Institute for College Called Tham Science, the project's a training workshop in the latest com­ and University Teaching. Panelists at the centerpiece is a van equipped with eight puter technologies for 15 chemistry and two-day event that drew more than 100 Macintosh computers programmed for physics teachers from nine high schools participants suggested that the institute scientific lab experiments. When the in eastern North Carolina. When classes serve as a clearinghouse for information computers and special attachments are started in the fall, NCSU master teacher on teaching, and that it sponsor think set up in the classroom, students can use Todd Boyette began taking the portable tanks and investigate ways to elevate the them to take measurements of tempera­ lab to each school on a regular basis to status of teaching. ture, color, acidity, movement, sound, or help the teachers use it in their class­ Established last year by the UNC voltage. Results show up immediately as rooms. These teachers will return to Board of Governors and based at WCU, colorful graphs on the computer screen. NCSU this summer for additional train­ the institute was created to improve ing, while teachers from other schools teaching al both public and private col­ will be introduced to the program. leges and universities in North Carolina Participating teachers learn how com­ and the Southeast. The inslitule's initial puters can be used to collect data or efforts will include designing and orga­ control experiments. They also learn nizing programs for college faculty mem­ new types of teaching strategies and how bers on issues affecting teaching, best to utilize the equipment. learning, and student development; A joint effort by the College of Physi­ producing a periodic newsletter; and cal and Mathematical Sciences and the supporting faculty research on effective ,,11 ,,,, College of Education and Psychology, the teaching strategies. - u program is funded by a $759,000 grant The institute also will conduct the from the National Science Foundation annual Carolina Colloquy for University Trinity High School teacher Charlene Marsh (right) helps students Michael Lassiter and Megan and a $25,000 equipment grant from the Teaching, open to faculty members from Farlow conduct an experiment. Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation. 0 all UNC campuses. 0 10 BOARD OF GOVERNORS QUARTERLY/ SPRING 1994 UNC-Chapel Hill Celebrates Two-Hu leatS ofPublic Higher El

The University of North Carolina at trustees-again led by Davie-chose the Chapel Hill turned 200 in October, mark­ hill at New Hope Chapel from among 14 ing the bicentennial of public higher possible sites as the "seat of the Univer­ education in America. President Bill sity of North Carolina.• Wrote Davie: Clinton was the main attraction at a 'This town ... promises, with all moral kick-off celebration that commemorated certainty, to be a place of growing and the October 12, 1793, laying of the cor­ permanent importance.• nerstone of Old East, the country's first Hinton James, Carolina's first student, public university building. Opening arrived from Wilmington in February ceremonies were followed by eight 1795. The first degrees were conferred months of special academic, cultural, in 1798-upon James and six other young and historical programs in Chapel Hill men- making UNC-Chapel Hill the only and across the state. public university to graduate students in The University of North Carolina was the 18th century. chartered by the N.C. General Assembly 1\.vo centuries later, UNC-Chapel Hill in 1789. William R. Davie, a Revolution­ has earned a worldwide reputation for ary War hero who helped frame the U.S. outstanding teaching, fruitful research, Constitution, introduced the bill. Three and distinguished public service. It years later, the University's board of enrolls nearly 24,000 students and offers

Ringing in a new century

Bill Clinton, doctor of humane letters

Regimental regalia

Presidential greeting BOARD OF GOVERNORS QUARTERLY / SPRING 1994 11 ndred lucation

degrees in more than 100 fields, includ­ ing professional degrees in dentistry, medicine, pharmacy, and law. October's opening ceremonies fea­ tured two full days of activities. State and national dignitaries l1elped lay a new cornerstone for Old East, extensively renovated and restored with the help of alumni contributions. Tar Heel basket­ ball coach Dean Smith presented 100 sixth-graders representing each North Caroli na county with a seedling from the Davie Poplar, a Carolina landmark, to plant near a public building back home. (Legend has it that UNC founder Davie chose the site for the university while resting under the Davie Poplar, which still stands.) Bicentennial continued on page 12

Memorable night in Kenan Stadium

County flags

Poplars for the populace

Davie's gold watch 12 BOARDOFGOVERNORSQUARTERLY/SPRING 1994

Bicentennial from page 11 the state. Alumni Andy Griffith and Charles Kuralt starred in public-service Roderick Dhue Adams, Sr. UNC President C. D. Spangler, Jr., announcements that ran throughout the presented Chancellor Paul Hardin a gold observance. Art exhibits, musical pro­ 1918-1994 pocket watch that had belonged to ductions, and theatrical performances Roderick D. Adams, a member of Davie, bequeathed to UNC-Chapel Hill were staged. The U.S. Postal Service the UNC Board of Governors since by a Davie descendent who died in New issued a commemorative post card and a 1985, died May 3, 1994, after a York. 'Iwo-time Tony-winner and alum· postal cachet series; 15 million of the battle with cancer. He was 75. nus Richard Adler brought his new com­ cards were distributed nationwide. The A native of Willow Springs, position, "UNC Bicentennial Commemo­ UNC Center for Public Television pro· Adams attended East Carolina Uni­ rative Suite,• to campus, where it was duced a documentary on the history of versity and NC State University. A performed by the North Car:olina Sym· UNC-Chapel Hill as a champion of free longtime resident of Durham, he phony. Among those featured in a inquiry. [See the story on page 5.] And retired as president of Adams Con­ plethora of presentations and lectures an archaeological excavation on campus crete Products Company and Cus­ were Li Lu, deputy leader of the 1989 uncovered details on life at Carolina in tom Match Corporation. A former Tiananmen Square demonstrations, and the 18th and 19th centuries. member of the NCSU Board of William E. Leuchteoburg, Kenan profes· The bicentennial observance came to 'Jrustees, Adams was a past presi­ sor of history, who lectured on visits by an official close at May's commence­ dent of the Durham Sertoma Club U.S. presidents to Chapel Hill. ment with a keynote address by alumnus and had served on the Raleigh­ President Clinton was the first sitting Francis S. Collins, director of the Human Durham Airport Authority and the president to speak at UNC-Chapel Hill Genome Project at the National Insti· N.C. Employment Training Council. since John E Kennedy visited in 1961. tutes of Health. That same day, bells in During his nine years on the More than 50,000 people crowded into 200 communities across the state rang board, Adams was active on commit­ Kenan Stadium to hear Clinton's address, simultaneously to herald UNC-Chapel tees for business and finance, the 0. carried live statewide by the UNC Cen· Hill's third century of service. Max Gardner Award, engineering in ter for Public Television. Clinton also The eight-month celebration culmi­ the Piedmont, and legislative affairs. accepted an honorary doctor of humane nated five years of planning and organi­ A longtime secretary of the Commit­ letters degree. zation. The effort was coordinated by tee on Personnel and Tenure, he also In March UNC-Chapel Hill recalled 1989 graduate Steve Tepper, who as ex­ had chaired the University Award the contributions of Cornelia Phillips ecutive director of the Bicentennial Ob­ Committee. Spencer, a Chapel Hill resident who led servance Office helped oversee more A Board of Governors resolution the fight to reopen UNC in the years than 100 events and about 30 bicenten­ reads in part: "Rod Adams' devoted following the Civil War. In a reenact· nial publications. Tepper and his staff stewardship of the University sprang ment by UNC-Chapel Hill faculty mem­ are now packing up bicentennial flags, from his belief that his board service ber Dede Corvinus, Spencer rang the bell medallions, correspondence, notes, and was a grand privilege and an enor­ in South Building as she had in 1874 to more than 4,000 photographs for safe­ mous responsibility... . [He] was herald UNC's rebirth. The university keeping in the university's permanent sought out by governors and legisla­ also presented the first Cornelia Phillips archives. tors for his advice and wisdom, yet Spencer Bell Award to Gladys Hall Themes and policy for the Bicenten­ he approached all people with re­ Coates, 91, for 65 years of contributions nial Observance were developed by a spect and an endearing humility." to Carolina. special committee chaired by Richard J. In April, the university held an open Richardson, Burton Craige Professor of house for the state of North Carolina. political science at UNC-Chapel Hill. Called "Carolina Saturday,• the event 'Irustee, campus, and alumni representa­ Documentary from pages opened all of the university's classrooms, tives on the committee included Arch T. members at Wilson and Davis libraries laboratories, libraries, performance halls, Allen III, Betty Caldwell, Richard R. at UNC-CH, state archivists, and alumni and sports facilities to the public. Most Cole, James Copland, Douglas S. who offered their personal mementos departments and schools offered hands· Dibbert, Susan Ehringhaus, Robert C. and family treasures. "It just would not on demonstrations and exhibits. More Eubanks, Jr., Paul Hardin, H. Garland have been the same film without the than 60,000 visitors were on hand for the Hershey, Douglas S. Hunt, James intimate feel that so many wonderful largest event in the campus' history. Johnston, Wayne R. Jones, Michael C. anecdotes, photographs, and home mov­ Myriad other events and special Lewis, Beverly W Long, Clifton B. ies provided," explains Evans. projects brought attention to the bicen­ Metcalf, Richard L. McCormick, Major funding for ' Crossroads" was tennial. UNC-Chapel Hill faculty mem­ Florentine Miller, Kevin Moran, James L. provided by the Tiger Foundation, the bers made more than 300 presentations Peacock, Barbara S. Perry, Carol Reuss, William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Thus!, to school and civic groups throughout and John L. Sanders. 0 and Carolina Power & Light Co. 0 BOA RO OFGOVllRNORS QUARTERLY/ SPR ING 1994 13

Belk Family Honored with University Award

The six children of the late William Henry Belk, founder of the Charlotte­ based chain of Belk department stores, were the 1993 recipients of the Univer­ sity Award, the highest honor given by the UNC Board of Governors. William Henry Belk, Jr., Sarah Belk Gambrell, John Montgomery Belk, Irwin Belk, Henderson Belk, and Thomas Milburn Belk, all of Charlotte, were recognized for illustrious service to higher education in North Carolina. UNC President C. D. Spangler, Jr., and award committee chair­ man C. Clifford Cameron announced the awards during a November banquet on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus. More than 175 faculty and administrators from the 16 UNC campuses gathered in The recipients are the principal own­ Chapel Hill in March to share strategies for shortening the time undergraduates take to earn ers, officers, and directors of various their degrees. Above, Charles Williams, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs at NC Belk corporations that operate nearly A&T State University, leads a break-out session on academic policies during the Conference 300 fashion department stores in 14 on Reducing Time-to-Degree, sponsored by UNC General Administration. states. In addition to their business pursuits, the Belk siblings have lent their time and resources to numerous public NCSU to Lead Education Boards and private institutions of higher educa­ tion. Educational buildings across North Technology Alliance Hold Joint Meeting Carolina carry the Belk name in recogni­ tion of their support. An alliance of higher education and The governing boards of the Univer­ Their citation reads in part: industry, led by NC State University and sity of North Carolina, the community 'Many things have changed during the MCNC, will conduct a $10.4-million U.S. colleges, and the public schools held 105-year history of Belk stores, but one Department of Defense program to ad­ their sixth annual joint meeting in March thing has been constant-the Belk vance the development of tiny electrome­ at UNC-Chapel Hill's William and Ida family's commitment to education .... chanical sensors for commercial use. Friday Continuing Education Center. Members of the Belk family have served The Regional Technology Alliance, The three groups convened for the first as trustees to 15 state colleges and uni­ based at NCSU, received a $5.2-million time as the State Education Commission, versities and they have provided out­ grant-to be matched by alliance mem­ created last year by the N.C. General standing leadership as members of nu­ bers-under the federal 'Iechnology Rein­ Assembly to develop a strategic plan for merous other school boards, committees, vestment Project, intended to spur civil­ the state's education programs. foundations, and fund-raising campaigns.' ian employment in areas affected by Following remarks by Gov. James B. 'Belk family members, along with the defense cutbacks. Other participants Hunt, attendees heard from William R. Belk Foundation, have donated millions include NC A&T State University, Louisi­ Daggett, director of the New York-based of dollars to public and private schools in ana State University, Oak Ridge National International Center for Leadership in North Carolina and nationwide. Through Laboratory, and several corporations. Education. He urged participants to their generous support, numerous educa­ The alliance will create a program that make education more relevant at all tional facilities have been erected, and adapts the miniaturization techniques levels, stressing that the skills needed to many professorships, scholarships, and developed in the electronics industry for succeed in the workplace were often other educational endowments have use in mechanical devices. Such micro­ different from those needed to get into been established. The large number of devices have potential applications in college. Daggett also called for a restruc­ buildings and fellowships named in textiles, medicine, automotives, and data turing of our educational system to ad­ honor of Belk family members attests to processing. Now in the works: a micro­ dress the increasing influx of technology their generosity and philanthropy toward device in a silicon chip that could be in the workplace and the home, and to The University of North Carolina and its implanted in diabetics to sense continu­ take account of economic and demo­ member schools.' 0 ously and regulate insulin levels. 0 graphic changes in America. 0 K u D 0 s

We're No. 1 The women's basket­ East Meets West The Chinese ball team at UNC.Chapel Hill captured ·have used herbal remedies for more than its first NCAA national championship in 2,000 years, and a UNC-Chapel Hill April, squeaking by Louisiana Tech 60- research team led by Kuo-Hsiung Lee, 59 on the strength of a three-point basket Kenan professor of medicinal chemistry, made with less than a second to play. A is using advanced technology to adapt week later, the UNC-CH cheerleading traditional Eastern medical practices to squad grabbed its own national title, develop new drug treatments for cancer, winning the Universal Cheerleaders arthritis, and other ailments. For his Association's championship in San Diego. efforts, Lee has received the first Lifu Academic Award for Chinese Medicine­ the Chinese equivalent of the Nobel Prize. The international award will be given every two years to three research­ Beverly Jones (right) with NCCU department chair ers by the Chinese Medical Research Sylvia Jacobs Foundation in Taiwan. Lee was lauded for achievement in herbal drug research; Role Model NC Central history the other prizes honor advancements in professor Beverly W Jones has been medical treatment and acupuncture. honored by the Association of Black Women Historians as a good role model Tops for Teachers East for black women. In bestowing the Carolina's Model Clinical Tuaching pro· Lorraine A. Williams Leadership Award, From left, Innovative recyclers Chris Ross, David gram has won top national honors from the group cited Jones' scholarly writings Randell, and Budd Glenn the Association of Teacher Educators. and her service as a mentor for thou­ Tapped for ATE's 1994 Distinguished sands of black women students. Recycled Americans are getting Program in Teacher Education award, accustomed to sorting soda cans and the program offers senior elementary News Maker UNC-Chapel Hill plastic bottles for recycling. Could used education majors a year-long classroom journalism professor Philip Meyer .has cars be next? A student-faculty research internship-far longer than the tradi­ won a National Press Foundation award team from Appalachian has won second tional ten-week student-teaching require­ for distinguished contributions to jour­ place and a S3,000 cash prize in a na­ ment. An apparent pay-off: 97 percent nalism. Along with Elliot Jaspin of Cox tional recycling competition sponsored of program graduates are still teaching Newspapers in Washington, D.C., Meyer by the American Plastics Council, the after five yea rs, versus fewer than 60 is credited with leading the movement automotive industry, and others. The percent for the U.S. as a whole. toward computer-assisted research. challenge: devise an economical, envi­ ronmentally sound way to recycle plastic Model Team A team of 19 stu­ Prize Package Fred D. Chappell, components found worldwide under the dents from UNC Charlotte has won the Burlington Industries Professor of En­ hoods of cars. ASU graduate student annual Model United Nations competi­ glish at UNC Greensboro, is one of two Chris Ross, senior David Randell, and tion in New York, in competition against recipients of 1993 Ingersoll Prizes. chemistry professor Budd Glenn submit­ 1,800 students from 160 U.S. and 30 Chappell, the author of six novels, 13 ted a proposal to separate the parts for international universities. In the contest, volumes of poetry, and two books of recycling using a flotation method that each team "becomes" the U.N delegation short stories, received the T S. Eliot sorts material by density. The reclaimed of a given country, then represents the Award for Creative Writing, along with materials could be used to make carpet assigned country in mock debates. S20,000 in cash. The Awards acknowl­ backing, insulation, or new car parts. edge authors whose works affirm the Health Promotion Donna moral principles of Western civilization. Animals' Friend His research Breitenstein, coordinator of health edu­ promoting the health and welfare of wild cation at Appalachian, has been named Pioneering The Cystic Fibrosis animals has earned Michael K. Stoskopf, university health-education professional Foundation has honored UNC-Chapel professor of aquatic and wildlife medi­ of the year by the Association for the Hill medical professor Richard C. cine at NC State, international accolades. Advancement of Health Education. A Boucher for pioneering contributions to Stoskopf received the Jalanka Medal former chairman of the Governor's clinical and basic research on the lung during the annual meeting of the Ameri­ School Health Advisory Committee, disease. Boucher received the Paul di can Association of Zoo Veterinarians. His Breitenstein coordinated the develop· Sant'Agnese Distinguished Scientific research focuses on the effects of antibi­ ment of a teachers manual for the state's Achievement Award for uncovering the otics, pesticides, and oil spills on wildlife. new health-education coursework. basic defee l that causes CF cells to mal-

14 BOA RO OF GOVERNORS QUARTERLY / SPRING 1994 OOAROOFGOVERNOHSQUAHTERLY /SPHINC 1994 15 function, helping to develop new drug Let's Investigate UNC-Chapel Exporting Art Art teachers Carl therapies, and advancing a landmark Hill chemist Malcolm D. E. Forbes-no Billingsley of East Carolina University gene-therapy study now underway. kin to the late magazine magnate- has and Billy Lee of UNC Greensboro are been tapped for a Young Investigator doing their part to correct the U.S.-Japan Taking Action Appalachian se­ Award by the National Science Founda­ trade imbalance. Lee's Temple, a 20-foot­ nior Hunter Schofield has been invited tion. The award, designed to draw tall stainless steel and bronze sculpture, to the White House to receive a $1,000 promising young Ph.D:s into teaching recently earned the $83,000 Rodin Prize Michael Schwerner Activist Award. Vice careers, supports faculty members in in his second appearance in the President Al Gore created the awards science and engineering. Winners re­ Fujisankei Biennale International Exhibi­ last year in memory of the civil-rights ceive up to S100,000 annually for five tion for Contemporary Sculpture. One activist murdered in Mississippi in 1964. years for their teaching and research. of only three American works chosen The award goes to five undergraduate Forbes will use his award to study weak from 1,100 entries, Temple is now on college students who best exemplify the electronic interactions in molecules. permanent display in an outdoor Japa­ spirit of citizen activism and promote nese museum. Billingsley's textured improvement in society. The first stu­ Among the Best Thro UNC bronze sculpture, Bell of the Earth, was dent to serve on the Boone Town Coun­ institutions broke the top-20 in U.S. News the Semi Grande Prize winner in the cil, Schofield has organized a benefit & World Report's March rankings of 1993 Toyamura International Sculpture concert for Grandfather Mountain, co­ America's best graduate schools. The Biennale, a feat that earned him roughly organized Earth Day activities, helped professional theater training program of $20,000 and an all-expenses-paid trip for initiate a recycling task force, and orga­ the NC School of the Arts ranked third, two to Japan. Six judges from Japanese nized a citizens campaign to save the just behind Yale University and New museums and universities chose earth's ozone layer. York University. UNC-Chapel Hill won Billingsley's work from a field of more three slots. Its master of public health than 540 sculptures from 36 nations. Toll Rhodes UNC-Chapel Hill program tied for second with Harvard's, (The grand prize went to a Japanese now boasts its 33rd Rhodes scholar­ the Kenan-Flagler Business School artist.) "The Japanese are very strong May graduate Dacia Toll, a Morehead ranked 16th, and the School of Medi­ supporters of contemporary sculpture, Scholar who was vice president of the cine's specialty programs in family and and they sponsor the most prestigious student body. A political science and rural medicine came out second among and lucrative sculpture competitions in economics double-major from Maryland, research-oriented medical schools. the world," says Billingsley. 0 Toll was one of 32 U.S. students chosen for the prestigious scholarship to England's Oxford University. Toll will use the all-expenses-paid award to study philosophy, politics, and economics.

Computer Wiz Anika Thomp­ son, a rising sophomore at NC A&T. has received the 1994 Black Engineer of the Year Awa rd for Student Leadership. An industrial engineering major from Mary­ land, she was lauded for a computer software package she developed that has been adopted by several Maryland schools. As a high school student, Thompson participated in the Mathemat­ ics, Engineering, and Science Achieve­ ment Program. On her own initiative, she developed software for a database that has streamlined the coordination of student records, work group activities, and special events for schools involved in the program. Thompson honed her computer skills during summer work in her father's consulting business. She now hopes to earn her doctorate and found her own consulting firm. ECU artist Carl Billingsley with his award-winning sculpture, Bell of the Eerth G I F T s & G R A N T s

Family Ties The Robert and Reinvestment A history of forg­ Mariam Cannon Hayes family of Con­ ing strong working relationships with cord has given UNCC several hundred area industries has helped ECU win a acres of land-valued at more than $2 S1.2-million federal grant to offer a million-to help pay for a $26-million master's degree program through dis­ student activities center. The family tance learning. The award from the made the record donation in honor of Technology Reinvestment Project will their late brother-in-law, Charlotte textile enable about 120 employees from Black executive James Barnhardt. The new and Decker and from the defense indus­ center will bear Barnhardt's name. try to earn master's degrees in industrial technology through interactive video Dream On The Burch Fellows courses. ECU hopes to offer the pro­ Program, recently established at UNC­ gram at up to six industrial sites in North CH with a $3 18,000 gift from 1963 alum­ Carolina and Maryland. nus Lucius E. Burch III, will enable undergraduates with extraordinary Career Ladder UNCG will use a promise and imagination to seize non­ five-year, $4.3-million grant from the classroom opportunities that could U.S. Department of Education to train change their lives. Students vying for low-income adults for careers in early the awards, valued at up to $6,000, nomi­ Kathrine Robinson Everett childhood education, with an emphasis nate themselves and "sell" a selection on working with poor children. Devel­ committee on their dream proposals. Paying Homage The library at oped with area community colleges and Burch is CEO and chairman of the the UNC-CH School of Law has been school districts, the program will enable Massey Burch Investment Group in named for Kathrine Robinson Everett, a low-income adults to earn associate Nashville. 1920 graduate who practiced in Durham degrees in early childhood education at for nearly 70 years. Everett, who died in participating community colleges, then People's Clinic A NCCU-spon­ 1992, set aside $2 million in her will to to enter UNCG as juniors to complete sored health-care clinic in rural Shiloh create a permanent endowment at the bachelor's degrees. will broaden its services, thanks to a law school. Her gift, the largest in the $167,207 grant from the Kate B. school's history, will endow one or more Cleared for Take-off NC A&T Reynolds Charitable 'Trust. Since 1992 professorships and provide support for will use a $400,000 grant from the the Shiloh People's Clinic, staffed by area students and the library. Everett gradu­ Boeing Company of Seattle to endow an practical nurses and NCCU nursing ated at the top of her law school class engineering professorship in the area of students, has targeted the elderly poor. and was the first woman to win a case manufacturing. The new chair will be a The three-year award will enable the bi­ before the N.C. Supreme Court. boon to A&T's new doctoral programs in weekly clinic to serve children and other mechanical and electrical engineering. at-risk groups, as well. Conservative Retired u .s. Soil Conservation Service employee William Anonymous An anonymous bene­ All Aboard Norfolk Southern W Stevens has established a scholarship factor, impressed by the nursing care his Corp. has pledged $100,000 to the UNC­ fund for students in the NCSU College of late wife received, has donated $1 mil­ CH School of Education to create the Agriculture and Life Sciences. The lion to the WSSU nursing program. The Joseph R. Neikirk Term Professorship. $267,000 endowment, named for NCSU gift, the largest ever to WSSU from an Recipients will receive a S10,000 annual alumnus Stevens and his late wife, Emily individual, will endow scholarships and stipend. Neikirk, a 1950 graduate of the Inscoe Stevens, will provide fellowships provide general support for the program. school, retired recently as the r~ilway's and scholarships for students focusing on vice chairman. conservation. Roots Pender County native David W Pearsall and his wife, Anne, have Stay Tuned Thanks to pledges Entitled PSU has landed a five-year, established a S100,000 scholarship fund from more than 24,000 viewers, the S1.7-million Title III grant from the U.S. at NCSU to benefit students from his UNC Center for Public Television raised Department of Education, the largest home county. The fund will provide up a record $1,686,286 during FESTIVAL award in the school's history. The to four annual scholarships for Pender '94, finishing just $14,000 shy of an money will be used to improve students' County students majoring in engineer­ ambitious $1.7-million goal. Only one oral and written skills, bolster orienta­ ing. Pearsall, who holds a mechanical public television station in the nation­ tion and advising programs, and boost engineering degree from NCSU, retired WNET in New York City-raised more external funding for instruction, re­ from the U.S. Air Force and Garrett money during the spring telethons. search, and public service. Corp. of Los Angeles.

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Bank on It The banking commu­ House Warming UNC-CH will Shared Interests NCSU will nity has thrown its support behind purchase a house and accompanying 20- receive up to $1 million in IBM equip­ UNCW's $15-million capital campaign. acre tract of land through a gift-purchase ment through a joint research program NationsBank has pledged $200,000 to arrangement with the widow and foun­ with the company. IBM's Shared Uni­ create the NationsBank Growing Schol­ dation of the late George Watts Hill, Sr. versity Research Program will provide ars Program, an endowment that will The property, adjacent to the campus powerful mini-computers for use in provide merit scholarships for UNCW's and valued at $1. 7 million, was the resi­ research projects of interest to both new honors program. Branch Banking & dence of Hill, an alumnus and long-time NCSU and IBM. TI-ust has pledged $185,000. The bulk of UNC-CH benefactor who died last year. that gift is a $150,000 BB&T Leadership The acquisition will be made possible in Challenge fund to support leadership part through a $600,000 gift from Hill's research and initiatives to develop stu­ widow, Anne. dent leaders. A $100,000 gift from the First Union Foundation will establish the Time Flies ECSU biologists hope a First Union Cameron School Endowment new study of how fruit flies age ulti­ to encourage faculty development. mately will increase the number of their graduates pursuing careers in biomedi­ In Memory 'Iwo separate bequests cine. The three-year project, backed by a to WCU will endow scholarship funds $350,000 grant from the National Insti­ for students from western North Caro­ tute on Aging, will enable ECSU re­ lina. The Lola G. Harwood Scholarship searchers and top biology students to Education dean Don Stedman, Knight Foundation Fund, created through a gift of more study an enzyme believed to be respon­ president Creed Black, and William C. Friday than $400,000 from the Bryson City sible for the insect's longevity. Their resident's estate, will provide merit findings could shed new light on how Chair for Friday A $!-million scholarships for ten students from the humans age. endowed chair in the UNC-CH School of region. A $250,000 bequest from Sue Education will honor William C. Friday, Morgan Davis of Jackson County will Taking Stock Sidney and Anne H. UNC president emeritus and executive provide need-based scholarships to stu­ Meyers of Richmond, Va., have donated director of the William R. Kenan, Jr., dents from Jackson, Swain, and Macon $132,000 in Heilig-Meyers Co. stock to Charitable TI-ust. The John S. and James counties. The Homer Ray Davis Scholar­ endow a need-based undergraduate L. Knight Foundation has made a ship Fund will honor her late son's scholarship at .UNC-CH. A 1934 gradu­ $250,000 lead gift to the fund-raising memory. ate, Sidney Meyers and his brother campaign for the William C. Friday opened the first furniture store in the Distinguished Professorship in Child Friends Indeed Friends of Sally chain that is now Heilig-Meyers. Development and Family Studies. The S. Cone of Greensboro have raised chair's recipient will direct the school's $60,000 in her honor to support the Taste Tests TI-opical marine new undergraduate degree program in women's studies program at UNCG. sponges have a built-in defense against that area. Cone, a well-known Greensboro civic predators: chemical compounds that leader who served two terms on the make them taste terrible. UNCW biolo­ Enduring Memory A Char­ UNCG Board of TI-ustees, is a charter gist Joseph Pawlik is working to isolate lotte-based family foundation has given member of the Friends of Women's Stud­ these novel compounds in hopes that UNCC $333,000 for an endowed profes­ ies at UNCG. they may hold medicinal promise. The sorship in business ethics. Matching National Science Foundation is funding state funds will create a SS00,000 chai r. the three-year, $177,000 study. Irene Surtman Chanter of Charlotte and her sister, Patricia Surtman Jordan of Firm Foundations 'Iwo North Winston-Salem, donated the money Carolina-based foundations have each through the Surtman Foundation in given $50,000 to the capital campaign of memory of their parents, Jule and Mar­ the UNC Center for Public Television. A guerite Surtman. Jule Surtman was one gift from the Philip L. Van Every Founda­ of the nation's leading Ford tractor dis­ tion of Charlotte will help purchase a tributors. new satellite down-link system, while the pledge from the John Wesley and Cancer Answers The American Anna Hodgin Hanes Foundation of Win­ College of Surgeons has awarded its 1994 Sally Cone (left) with fund-raising chair Linda ston-Salem will buy studio and produc­ George H. A. Clowes, Jr., Memorial Re- Carlisle and UNCG Vice Chancellor Richard Moore tion equipment. Grants (continued on page 20} p E 0 p L E

Historic First Appalachian State Good Timing UNC-Chapel Hill Taking the Lead Several UNC­ University graduate Joann Horton has alumnus Eugene L. Roberts, Jr., is the Chapel Hill administrators have been become the first woman president of new managing editor of the New York chosen to lead national associations. Texas Southern University, the nation's Times. Roberts' selection for the paper's George Sheldon, chairman of the depart­ second-largest historically black school. second-highest newsroom position marks ment of surgery in the School of Medi­ At TSU, she will oversee a $SO-million the first such appointment from outside cine, has been elected president of the budget and an enrollment of 11,000. the ranks of the Times since 1904. Be­ American Surgical Association; School of After receiving bachelor's and master's fore joining the journalism faculty at the Law Dean Judith Wegner will be the degrees in French from ASU, Horton University of Maryland in 1991, Roberts next president of the Association of earned a doctorate at Ohio State Univer­ was executive editor of the Philadelphia American Law Schools; and Stephen S. sity. She had been state director of Inquirer for 18 years. During his tenure Birdsall, dean of the College of Arts and Iowa's community college system. there, his staff captured 17 Pulitzer Sciences, has been tapped to lead the Prizes. Roberts was the first chairman of 7,000-member Association of American the board of visitors of the UNC-CH Geographers. School of Journalism and Mass Commu­ nication. Fast Track Pearse Edwards wants to discuss small-business privatization Foreign Affairs Gennadi with Russian citizens, but his audience is Gerasimov, who served as spokesman for sometimes more interested in recounting Mikhail Gorbachev during the former episodes of American television pro­ Soviet Union's perestroika period, taught grams. Edwards, a 1992 Appalachian at UNC Wilmington this spring as a State University history graduate, is an f distinguished visiting professor in the aide with the World Bank International < departments of political science and Finance Corp. in Moscow, where he is Ulla Godwin and her biotech art communication studies. He gave presen­ assisting with privatization efforts and tations for faculty, staff, and the general answering incessant questions about In the Genes Art may be in the public. After President Yeltsin took television and life in the U.S. Only 24, eye of the beholder, but to Ulla Godwin, office, Gerasimov served for two years as Edwards had already interned with the manager of East Carolina's molecular ambassador to Portugal for the USSR, National Security Archives in Washing­ biology laboratory, art is also in the and later the Russian Federation. ton, D.C., and worked on President genes. Godwin uses scissors and an Clinton's media and transition teams artist's eye to transform discarded photo­ Treasury Note Wushow Chou, when he heard the World Bank was graphs of fish and reptile DNA into land­ professor of computer science and elec­ looking for someone with a liberal-arts/ scapes and skylines. In her collages, trical engineering at NC State University, public-relations background to help set DNA strands become lighted skyscrap· has been appointed deputy assistant up Russian business centers and meet ers; enlargements of cancer cells become secretary for information systems at the with city officials. Edwards, who had hedges and yard plants. Now Godwin, U.S. Treasury Department. Chou has never been overseas, was in Moscow who produced her first picture last year, taken a leave of absence to oversee com­ within a week of his interview. Still is attracting national exposure. Notices puter systems for the department and its learning Russian, he has now traveled to about her pictures have appeared in bureaus, including the Internal Revenue every region of Russia and several Britain's New Scientist, Italy's Scienza, Service. former Soviet republics. and the Netherlands' Het Parool. A team from the Discovery cable channel is Talking Turkey The Interna­ preparing a segment on Godwin's tional Council on Education for Teaching biotech art for airing later this year. has invited Western Carolina University Chancellor Myron Coulter to address its Chemical Conductor Janet 41st World Assembly in Istanbul in July. Osteryoung, head of the chemistry de­ Coulter, who retires June 30, will discuss partment at NC State since 1992, has WCU's role in promoting international been named director of the Division of programs and trade. WCU has extensive

Chemistry at the National Science Foun­ contacts in China, Thailand, Swaziland, C dation. When she leaves NCSU for the the Caribbean, and Latin America, and ! job in September, Osteryoung will be through its Center for Improving Moun­ z responsible for federal funds in excess of tain Living has been involved in assis­ ! S120 million to support research and tance projects in more than 30 Pearse Edwards with a former teacher, ASU education in the physical sciences. Third-World countries. history professor Bettie Bond

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Executive Order President Deans Clinton has tapped Fayetteville State University Chancellor Lloyd V. Hackley Daniel Godfrey, 55, dean of the School to chair the Presidential Advisory Board of Agriculture at NC A&T State Univer­ on Historically Black Colleges and Uni­ sity. Acting dean since last year, Godfrey versities. The board is charged with had been associate dean and administra­ overseeing federal agencies' compliance tor of A&T's cooperative extension pro­ with an executive order to increase the gram since 1977. He holds undergradu­ share of educational grants, contracts, ate and master's degrees from A&T and and cooperative agreements awarded to a doctorate from Cornell University. the nation's historically black institu­ tions. Meada Gi bbs, 58, dean of the Graduate School at NC A&T State University. Cleanup Duty UNC Wilmington Named interim dean in 1993, Gibbs had provost Marvin Moss has been elected served as chair of A&T's Department of chairman of the Scientific Advisory Business Education and Administrative Board of the Strategic Environmental Services since 1974. A graduate of Allen Research and Development Program. University in South Carolina, she holds a The federal program was created by master's degree from the University of Congress to help the U.S. departments of Wisconsin and a doctorate from the defense and energy deal with University of Wisconsin-Madison. multibillion-dollar environmental prob­ lems at federal government laboratories Perry A. Massey, 46, dean of the Col­ and defense installations. The nine­ lege of Arts and Sciences at Fayetteville member board led by Moss will award State University. A graduate of NC Cen­ approximately $200 million annually to tral University, Massey earned master's Harvey K. Littleton promote environmental cleanup, compli­ and doctoral degrees from Clark Univer­ ance, energy conservation, and pollution sity in Massachusetts. Since 1986, he Treasured Harvey K. Littleton, prevention. has been academic affairs coordinator pioneer artist in the studio-glass move­ for Virginia's State Council of Higher ment, is UNC Wilmington's 1993 North Education. Carolina Living 'Treasure. The program APPOINTM E NTS recognizes the state's master craftsmen Michael A. Simmons, 52, dean of the and brings them to Wilmington to share School of Medicine at UNC-Chapel Hill. their talents with students. (See the Vice Chancellors Since 1983 Simmons has been chairman article on the program's founder on page of the Department of Pediatrics at the 3.) A resident of Spruce Pine, Littleton is Michelle R. Howard-Vital, 41, vice University of Utah. He holds under­ recognized throughout the world as the chancellor for public service and ex­ graduate and medical degrees from originator of vitreographs, prints made tended education at UNC Wilmington. Harvard University. from sandblasted designs on glass plates. Howard-Vital had been associate vice Collections of his works have been show­ president for academic programs and cased in museums in the U.S., Europe, dean of the University College at the General Administration and Japan. University of Pennsylvania-Edinboro. She holds undergraduate and master's Kitty M. McCollum, 43, assistant vice Acropolis Bound Patricia L. degrees from the University of Chicago president for finance and university Poteat, associate vice chancellor for and a doctorate from the University of benefits officer. A graduate of UNC academic affairs at UNC-Chapel Hill, Illinois at Chicago. Greensboro, McCollum had been direc­ has been elected president of Athens tor of benefits at UNC-Chapel Hill. College in Athens, Greece. Poteat will Robert M. Gearhart, 51, vice chancel­ oversee all operations of the bicultural lor for development at Fayetteville State Karen F. Gerringer, 45, director of the Greek-American College, which includes University. Since 1983, Gearhart has Principal Fellows Program. A former 3,000 students and 300 facu lty in four been director of institutional advance­ elementary school principal, Gerringer schools on two campuses. A graduate of ment at Salisbury State University in had been executive director of personnel UNC-CH, Poteat also holds a master's Maryland. A graduate of Syracuse Uni­ for the Guilford County Schools. She degree from the University of Kentucky versity, he holds a master's degree from holds undergraduate, master's and doc­ and a doctorate from Duke University. Indiana University of Pennsylvania. toral degrees from UNC Greensboro. 0 20 BOARD OF GOVERNORS QUARTERLY/ SPRING 1994

Grants J,om page 17 Bloodlines Scientists at UNC-CH Long-term Deposit Wachovia search Career Development Award to will use new technologies pioneered at Corp. has given ECU's Shared Visions UNC-CH surgeon William G. Cance. the university to study vitamin K-depen­ campaign a $667,000 boost. When com­ Cance will receive $200,000 over five dent coagulation factors-proteins that bined with matching state funds, the gift years to support his research on genes play key roles in blood clotting. The will create a $1-million endowment for that enable the body to suppress tumors study is funded by a five-year, $3.8· the Wachovia Distinguished Professor­ and others that allow cancer to spread. million grant from the National Insti­ ship in Educational Leadership and help His goal: finding ways to stop cancers tutes of Health and should advance the start a program to teach leadership skills from invadLng previously unaffected development of new drugs to alleviate to public school teachers. parts of the body. life-threatening clotting and bleeding disorders. Chemical Reaction Nalco Committed Turo Greenville busi­ Chemical Co. of Naperville, Ill., has nesses, Jiffy Lube and MicroAge, have Taking the Lead NCCU will use pledged $666,000 to help establish the created a graduate fellowship in the ECU $272,275 from the W K. Kellogg Founda­ Worley H. Clark Distinguished Univer· Department of Education. Also partici­ tion to develop a Youth Leadership Acad­ sity Professorship in the NCSU College pating in the $100,000 gift are the Edgar emy to help young blacks develop and of Engineering. State matching funds A. Denton family and Mr. and Mrs. Leslie demonstrate leadership abilities. The will create a $1-million chai r. Clark, H. Garner, Sr. The Benjamin Scott Denton three-year project will target 13-to-19· Nalco's chairman and chief executive, is Graduate Fellowship will provide $5,200 year-olds from Durham, Vance, and a 1956 alumnus of NCSU. annually to a graduate student who Warren counties. Aided by local men­ demonstrates a commitment to helping tors, participants will attend on-campus Closing the Distance UNCW people with autism and other severe summer sessions, receive intensive lead­ will use $484,452 from the Rural Electri· disabilities. The fellowship honors Scott ership training, and help develop com­ fication Administration to establish six Denton of Greenville, who has autism. munity service projects. new interactive distance-learning sites in Brunswick, Pender, and Columbus coun­ Certified Research The Center Hello Operator AT&T College & ties. The new fiber-optic classrooms will for Educational Research and Evaluation University Systems recently left a nice allow UNCW to offer courses via the at UNCG has received a $2.4-million calling card at NCCU and UNCG: new network at community colleges and contract to continue its work on teacher computer equipment worth $231,000. selected high schools. 0 assessment and certification issues. The UNC campuses were among 61 Awarded by the National Board for Pro­ schools in the U.S. chosen by AT&T The University of North Carolina fessional Teaching Standards, the con· for equipment grants. A $125,000 award to NCCU provided 20 computers Board of Governors Quarterly tract calls for UNCG to analyze the Volume 17, Number I, Spring 1994 national board's assessments for reliabil­ and related software for the computer lab. UNCG is using its $106,000 grant Published by UNC General Administ;ation ity, validity, fairness, and freedom from 910 Raleigh Road, Chapel Hill, N.C. 27515. bias. It follows a $1.4-million contract to create an information-technology center. 10,300 copies of this document were printed awarded in 1992. at a cost of S5,521 , or 54¢ per copy

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