The Best Practices Task Force, the newest working group of the Board of Visitors, has the goal of making sure the Board is fulfilling its charge from the University’s Board of Trustees to assist the Board of Trustees and Chancellor in activities that help advance the University. The group is taking a look at ways the Board of Visitors can improve in its service to the University and in its satisfaction to its members.
Best Practices Task Force Members
Bill Bates |
Isaac Horton |
Carlos Pauling, Vice-Chair |
The topic of faculty recruitment and retention is one of the key issues facing Carolina. In the next decade, a third of Carolina’s senior faculty will retire, and the University must be able to compete for the scholars and teachers it will need in the future.
As we benchmark ourselves against our national academic peers, we have worked hard to make up lost ground—to stay competitive with America’s and now the world’s best universities.
Last year, faced with increasing competition from private universities, we again held steady with the overall faculty retention rate. From 32 external offers, we retained 21 faculty members and lost 11 to other institutions. The year before, we retained 43 faculty and lost 26, reversing a negative pattern from the year before that.
Our real success, however, has been the ability to reward faculty based on merit and achievement, not just responding to raids. A pre-emptive strategy of recognition and reward always trumps a reactive strategy of offers and counter-offers. No one should feel that recognition only comes through an external offer.
The Board of Visitors Faculty Recruitment and Retention Committee has been tracking this issue for the past few years, and is looking for ways to assist the University.
Faculty Recruitment and Retention Committee Members
| Diane Adams Jeffrey Allred Katrina Avery Paul Bitler Gwendolyn Bounds Terrence Burroughs Queenie Byars Mark Carpenter Chan Chandler Kathryn Clancy Carolyn Coward Martin DeBerardinis Lana Dial Margaret Dickson
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Eugene Flood, Chair |
Karen Parker |
The Local Relations Committee of the Board of Visitors focuses on lending support to the University by helping to communicate the goals of the University to the local community. The group advises the University about matters related to Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Orange County. This group works closely with the University’s Office of Local Relations.
Local Relations Committee Members
| Robert Barnhill Laurice Ferris Joan Huntley Wayne Hutchins Jack Little Scott Maitland |
Robyn Owens |
State Relations Committee
Responding to the need for ongoing communication with state lawmakers, our State Relations Committee members address key University issues as they are affected by public policy. The State Relations Committee builds on the strong relationships many board members already have with state lawmakers. This group also works together to foster new relationships.
Members of the State Relations Committee are the first contacted when Carolina needs assistance with important legislative issues. More importantly, members of this committee educate lawmakers to enable them to thoughtfully consider Carolina’s education, research and public service roles and goals. This committee works with Carolina’s General Alumni Association, and reaches out to other University of North Carolina alumni supporters to advance the higher education and research cause.
State Relations Committee Members
| Lee Borden Alice Bordsen Allen Cobb Barbara Bitler Coughlin Scott Custer Doug Dibbert Scott Edwards William Fuller Jill Gammon |
Noah Huffstetler |
Tom Ross |
