This is pretty amazing stuff. The UNC Board of Trustees yesterday named its new leader, none other than the chair of the school's "Education Foundation," the booster organization otherwise known as the "Ram's Club."
The Ram's Club has yet to be challenged, as far as its role in creating the fake class system to keep athletes academically eligible. Are we really to believe the whole system was conceived and managed by one low-level admin assistant in one wayward academic dept, as UNC explains?
Follow the money, folks. The Heels felt mounting pressure to win in the mid-80s, with NC State and Duke's BB programs blossoming. And so the "Educational Foundation" took steps to improve their teams' chances.
The article below announced the appointments to UNC's BOT and quite comically carries a theme of "Courage to Change." Unbelievable. It can also be viewed online at: http://www.unc.edu/spotlight/new-bot-chair-calls-for-courage-to-change/
New BOT chair calls for ‘courage to change’
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Board of Trustees welcomed five new members at the July 23 meeting and re-emphasized its focus on internal improvement and external communication.
“I think everyone will agree that this is a very hard-working board,” Chancellor Carol L. Folt said, pointing to the group’s commitment to spending time on important issues.
In his opening remarks, new Chair Dwight Stone of Greensboro set the tone for the future with four goals for the board:
“In today’s environment, the challenges facing universities and academic institutions across the country are huge. We must face those challenges head on and have the courage to change,” Stone said.
Paraphrasing evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin, he added, “It is not the strongest university that survives and thrives. It is not the most intelligent university that survives. It is the university that is the most adaptable to change that will survive and thrive.”
Stone replaces previous Chair Lowry Caudill, who keeps his seat on the board and received kudos and a board resolution thanking him for his calm and steady leadership the past two years.
Stone is president and chair of D. Stone Builders Inc. and board chair of the Educational Foundation. He also served on the search committees for a new chancellor and a new athletic director.
The new vice chair is Haywood D. Cochrane of Elon, chair of the board of directors of DARA Biosciences Inc.
Five new members were sworn in at the meeting:
The Board of Governors appointed Grumbles, Keyes and McCullen to their seats, and Gov. Pat McCrory selected McMahan and Nath.
Student Body President Houston Summers was sworn in for his term on the board at May’s meeting.
Folt recapped recent Carolina honors for the new members, including record years for student applications and philanthropy, the creation of the Coastal Resilience Center of Excellence and the highest possible rating of the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center by the National Cancer Institute.
She shared her enthusiasm about introducing theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking at a Carolina-sponsored conference in Stockholm next month before introducing the day’s presenters who discussed how their organizations deal with big data.
“We can collect and track reams of information, but it doesn’t really matter unless you have a way of using it,” Folt said.
These two big-data success stories were told by John Buse, co-principal investigator and director of the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences (NC TraCS) Institute, and Javed Mostafa, director of the Carolina Health Informatics Program (CHIP).
“Faster, cheaper and better” is the goal of NC TraCS, one of 63 Clinical and Translational Science Award institutions in the nation, Buse said. These institutes were created to speed research into application. One of the researchers, a surgeon specializing in bladder cancer, used a grant to study the recovery of these patients and how to prevent their readmission to the hospital.
The surgeon, Angela Smith, urged the board to do what they could to recruit physicians to do research at the beginning of their careers—before they establish medical practices.
NC TraCS was an early source of support for CHIP, Mostafa said during his presentation. The professor of information science at the School of Information and Library Science has a joint appointment to the Biomedical Research Imaging Center. Some of the problems CHIP tackles are health care costs, disparities in access and quality of care.
Mostafa said that the demand for health informatics is up and that interpreting that data has to be interdisciplinary.
To prove that point, he introduced three CHIP faculty members from three different schools (medicine, pharmacy and public health). The students who shared their stories with trustees come from different disciplines, too.
One student, Vincent Carrasco, is a longtime faculty member who gave up surgery to concentrate on research. Now he is starting a second career studying how to diagnose aging brain problems early.
Fei Yu, an information and library science graduate student, was frustrated by how hard it was to get a copy of her own medical records. To find out more about the problem, she searched online for “information and library science” and “healthcare.” The first result of her search, she said, was CHIP.
After each presentation, board members expressed enthusiasm at the accomplishments described.
“This is just fantastic,” Folt said.
The Ram's Club has yet to be challenged, as far as its role in creating the fake class system to keep athletes academically eligible. Are we really to believe the whole system was conceived and managed by one low-level admin assistant in one wayward academic dept, as UNC explains?
Follow the money, folks. The Heels felt mounting pressure to win in the mid-80s, with NC State and Duke's BB programs blossoming. And so the "Educational Foundation" took steps to improve their teams' chances.
The article below announced the appointments to UNC's BOT and quite comically carries a theme of "Courage to Change." Unbelievable. It can also be viewed online at: http://www.unc.edu/spotlight/new-bot-chair-calls-for-courage-to-change/
New BOT chair calls for ‘courage to change’
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Board of Trustees welcomed five new members at the July 23 meeting and re-emphasized its focus on internal improvement and external communication.
“I think everyone will agree that this is a very hard-working board,” Chancellor Carol L. Folt said, pointing to the group’s commitment to spending time on important issues.
In his opening remarks, new Chair Dwight Stone of Greensboro set the tone for the future with four goals for the board:
- Support Folt and her evolving strategic plan;
- Tell the story of how Carolina improves lives across the state, nation and world;
- Accelerate, measure and communicate the growth and economic impact of the University’s innovation and entrepreneurship initiatives; and
- Help Carolina become more efficient and effective in key operational areas, particularly finance, administration, teaching and research.
“In today’s environment, the challenges facing universities and academic institutions across the country are huge. We must face those challenges head on and have the courage to change,” Stone said.
Paraphrasing evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin, he added, “It is not the strongest university that survives and thrives. It is not the most intelligent university that survives. It is the university that is the most adaptable to change that will survive and thrive.”
Stone replaces previous Chair Lowry Caudill, who keeps his seat on the board and received kudos and a board resolution thanking him for his calm and steady leadership the past two years.
Stone is president and chair of D. Stone Builders Inc. and board chair of the Educational Foundation. He also served on the search committees for a new chancellor and a new athletic director.
The new vice chair is Haywood D. Cochrane of Elon, chair of the board of directors of DARA Biosciences Inc.
Five new members were sworn in at the meeting:
- Julia Sprunt Grumbles of Chapel Hill, a former corporate vice president for Turner Broadcasting System Inc. who previously served as Carolina’s interim vice chancellor for development;
- William A. (Bill) Keyes IV of McLean, Virginia, founder and director of the Institute for Responsible Citizenship, a summer enrichment program for African American male students;
- Allie R. McCullen of Keener, owner of The McCullen Group Inc., a real estate sales and appraisal firm in Clinton;
- William E. (Ed) McMahan of Charlotte, former chairman and CEO of Little-McMahan Corp who served six terms in the North Carolina House and just finished a term on the UNC Board of Governors; and
- Hari H. Nath of Cary, retired founder and CEO of the management consulting firm Technology Planning and Management Corp. who recently completed a term on the UNC Board of Governors.
The Board of Governors appointed Grumbles, Keyes and McCullen to their seats, and Gov. Pat McCrory selected McMahan and Nath.
Student Body President Houston Summers was sworn in for his term on the board at May’s meeting.
Folt recapped recent Carolina honors for the new members, including record years for student applications and philanthropy, the creation of the Coastal Resilience Center of Excellence and the highest possible rating of the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center by the National Cancer Institute.
She shared her enthusiasm about introducing theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking at a Carolina-sponsored conference in Stockholm next month before introducing the day’s presenters who discussed how their organizations deal with big data.
“We can collect and track reams of information, but it doesn’t really matter unless you have a way of using it,” Folt said.
These two big-data success stories were told by John Buse, co-principal investigator and director of the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences (NC TraCS) Institute, and Javed Mostafa, director of the Carolina Health Informatics Program (CHIP).
“Faster, cheaper and better” is the goal of NC TraCS, one of 63 Clinical and Translational Science Award institutions in the nation, Buse said. These institutes were created to speed research into application. One of the researchers, a surgeon specializing in bladder cancer, used a grant to study the recovery of these patients and how to prevent their readmission to the hospital.
The surgeon, Angela Smith, urged the board to do what they could to recruit physicians to do research at the beginning of their careers—before they establish medical practices.
NC TraCS was an early source of support for CHIP, Mostafa said during his presentation. The professor of information science at the School of Information and Library Science has a joint appointment to the Biomedical Research Imaging Center. Some of the problems CHIP tackles are health care costs, disparities in access and quality of care.
Mostafa said that the demand for health informatics is up and that interpreting that data has to be interdisciplinary.
To prove that point, he introduced three CHIP faculty members from three different schools (medicine, pharmacy and public health). The students who shared their stories with trustees come from different disciplines, too.
One student, Vincent Carrasco, is a longtime faculty member who gave up surgery to concentrate on research. Now he is starting a second career studying how to diagnose aging brain problems early.
Fei Yu, an information and library science graduate student, was frustrated by how hard it was to get a copy of her own medical records. To find out more about the problem, she searched online for “information and library science” and “healthcare.” The first result of her search, she said, was CHIP.
After each presentation, board members expressed enthusiasm at the accomplishments described.
“This is just fantastic,” Folt said.
