UNC-Chapel Hill Faculty Leader: Tough Times in Higher Ed 5/6/2023

The past months have been tense between UNC faculty and policy makers. Faculty were upset when the Board of Trustees called for creating the School of Civic Life and Leadership, when the Board of Governors’ prohibited UNC from asking job applicants or prospective students about diversity, and when some state legislators proposed eliminating tenure.Mimi Chapman is Chair of the Faculty, but her three-year term ends in June. She talks with Connection’s Sophie Mallinson from Carolina Connection, student radio from UNC-Chapel Hill Hussman School of Journalism and Media.