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UNC Tomorrow:
Carolina’s Response
Campus Forums
at UNC-Chapel Hill
April 14-15, 2008
Purpose of This Meeting
• UNC Tomorrow Background
• Carolina’s Process for Responding
• UNC Tomorrow Findings and Recommendations
• Overview of Draft Response—New Programs and Activities
• Next Steps
• Instructions for More Information and Feedback
UNC Tomorrow—Overview
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UNC Tomorrow is a system-wide initiative led by President Erskine
Bowles
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“How can UNC respond more directly and proactively to the 21st century
challenges facing North Carolina through . . . the efficient and effective
fulfillment of its three-pronged mission of teaching, research and
scholarship, and public service.”
UNC Tomorrow—Overview
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UNC Tomorrow Commission (28 members)
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11 community listening forums (2,700 people)
Online survey (6,700 responses)
11 campus listening forums (1,000 faculty, staff, and students)
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Scholars Council (Jim Johnson and Tom Ricketts)
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Reported findings and recommendations in December 2007
Adopted by Board of Governors in January 2008
Response instructions to campuses in late January and February
Carolina’s Response, Phase I
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Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Bernadette Gray-Little is leading
Carolina’s response to UNC Tomorrow.
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Phase 1 of the UNCT response focuses on engagement and is being
managed by Mike Smith, Vice Chancellor for Public Service and
Engagement.
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Global Readiness
Increasing Access to Higher Education
Improving Public Education
Economic Transformation and Community Development
Health
Environment
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Phase 1 response due to UNC General Administration—May 1, 2008.
Carolina’s Response—Campus Input
• January 7 Kick-Off Meeting. Email from Chancellor Moeser
announcing UNCT and asking for cooperation (Jan. 31).
• Provost Gray-Little appointed committees to develop draft new
initiatives for each policy area. First meetings on Feb. 14.
• Email from Provost Gray-Little encouraging faculty to contact
committee chairs with ideas (Feb. 18).
• Meetings with Chancellor’s Advisory Committee, Engagement
Council, Deans Council, and Students.
Email updates in
February/March.
Carolina’s Response—The Process
• The short timeline has made the process challenging and less
than perfect—to say the least
• Anger, denial, bargaining, and depression
• Acceptance is the best course
• Many of the draft proposals require planning and implementation
after May 1—it will permit a broader and more transparent
process
Carolina’s Response—Instructions
• For each policy area, no more than 5-6 new and existing
programs and activities that respond to UNCT
• Committees have focused on new programs and activities
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Respond to a demonstrated need
Interdisciplinary
Inter-institutional
Pilot
• Students working on their own response to UNCT
Our Global Readiness
Major Finding
UNC should educate its students to be personally and professionally
successful in the 21st century and, to do so, should enhance the global
competitiveness of its institutions and their graduates.
Recommendations
21st Century Skills
• Prepare its students for successful professional and personal lives in
the 21st century, equipping them with the tools they will need to adapt
to the ever-changing world.
Our Global Readiness
Recommendations
Global Competitiveness
• Be globally competitive, especially in research programs, to ensure that
they are globally relevant and significant.
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Promote increased partnerships between its own campuses and
international universities and enhance the global awareness of its
faculty and students.
Our Global Readiness
• Student preparation—develop plans to implement foreign
language requirement and interdisciplinary course clusters
• Create strategic plan to internationalize Carolina—including
means to educate North Carolinians about globalization
• Global Research Institute
• Expansion of Triangle partnerships with Institute for Global
Health and Infectious Diseases
• Research Tool Set
Our Citizens and Their Future: Access to Higher Education
Major Finding
UNC should increase access to higher education for all North
Carolinians, particularly for underserved regions, underrepresented
populations, and non-traditional students.
Recommendations
• Increase access to its educational programs – including academic
courses, degree programs at all levels, and certificate programs – for
traditional students, non-traditional students, and lifelong learners.
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Continue ongoing efforts with the North Carolina Community College
System to strengthen and streamline articulation between the two
systems to develop a more seamless relationship.
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Be a model for accommodating the needs of persons with disabilities,
including students, faculty, staff, and the general public.
Our Citizens and Their Future: Access to Higher Education
Recommendations
• Increase the educational attainment of all underrepresented
populations, especially African-American male and Hispanic students.
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Help ensure that all students are better prepared to enter and succeed
academically in college.
Our Citizens and Their Future: Access to Higher Education
• Expansion of Scholars’ Latino Initiative
• College access and advising course and curriculum
• Access for youth from North Carolina’s public foster care
system
• Undergraduate certificate and degree-completion program
• Residential college advising and educational support program
Our Children and Their Future: Improving Public Education
Major Finding
UNC should be more actively involved in solving North Carolina’s
public education challenges.
Recommendations
• Improve the quantity, quality, and geographic distribution of public
school teachers.
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Help address the shortage of science and math teachers, especially in
rural areas.
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Strengthen efforts to enhance the teaching skills of public school
faculty and the leadership skills of administrators.
Our Children and Their Future: Improving Public Education
Recommendations
• Leverage its expertise and increase collaborations to lower our state’s
dropout rate and improve academic achievement in all North Carolina
public schools, especially those that are high-priority and lowperforming.
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Strengthen partnerships to develop a seamless educational continuum
from pre-K through higher education (“Birth – 20”).
Our Children and Their Future: Improving Public Education
• Public Education Collaborative
• Carolina Teacher Scholar Program
• Online Learning for Experienced Teachers and Administrators
• Expansion of Career Start
• Pipeline to the Teaching Profession
Our Communities and Their Economic Transformation
Major Finding
UNC should be more actively engaged in enhancing the economic
transformation and community development of North Carolina’s regions
and the state as a whole.
Recommendations
• Increase capacity and commitment to respond to this finding.
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Focus efforts on rural and underserved areas of the state.
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Seek to align appropriate campus programs with economic plans of our
region and the state.
Our Communities and Their Economic Transformation
Recommendations
• Promote arts and cultural enrichment across the state.
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Facilitate inclusive discussions on important community issues.
Our Communities and Their Economic Transformation
• Center for Community and Economic Transformation
• Launching the Venture
• UNC Classroom of Tomorrow
Our Health
Major Finding
UNC should lead in improving the health and wellness of all people and
communities in our state.
Recommendations
• Lead in improving health and wellness in North Carolina.
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Educate more health professionals.
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Lead in utilizing health information to improve health and wellness in
North Carolina.
Our Health
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Community Connections
 Two-way portal—Campus resources and community needs
 Research to practice—Beyond obesity and cardiovascular disease
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State Employees Healthy Workforce Initiative
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Increasing the health professional workforce
 Expansion of institutional capacity to train health professionals
 North Carolina Health Workforce Advisory Board
 Consortium for Health Workforce Diversity
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Interdisciplinary Health Communications Center
Our Environment
Major Finding
UNC should assume a leadership role in addressing the state’s energy
and environmental challenges.
Recommendations
• Embrace environmental sustainability as a core value among its
institutions.
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Leverage its existing research
environmental and energy issues.
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Increase community awareness of environmental and sustainability
issues.
expertise
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critical
Our Environment
• UNC Council for a Sustainable Environment
• Sustainable Water and Energy for NC—New Knowledge,
Partnerships, and Practice
• Carolina’s Campus—A Living Laboratory for Environmental
Sustainability
Our University’s Outreach and Engagement
Major Finding
UNC should become more directly engaged with and connected to the
people of North Carolina, its regions, and our state as a whole.
Recommendations
• Apply, translate and communicate research and scholarship to broader
audiences.
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Develop a strategic plan for scholarly public service on each campus
that is detailed and specific in definition and scope.
Our University’s Outreach and Engagement
Recommendations
• Create a mechanism for applying research and scholarship to address
significant regional and statewide issues.
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Communicate its resources and expertise to wider audiences.
Our University’s Outreach and Engagement
• NC Translational and Clinical Sciences (TraCS) Institute
• Faculty Engaged Scholars Program
• Campus Dialogue and Planning Process about Engaged
Scholarship
• UNC Center for Applied Public Policy Research
• Database of Public Service and Engagement at Carolina
Other Information about Phase I
Changes to Internal Policies and Procedures:
• Improving efficiency
• Improving interdisciplinary and inter-institutional collaborations
• Improving accountability and performance
Student initiatives at Carolina
Next Steps
• Input from Vice Chancellors and Deans
• Final decision by Provost and Chancellor
UNC Tomorrow:
Carolina’s Response
For more information on the UNC
Tomorrow Commission report:
www.nctomorrow.org
For more details on today’s
proposals:
http://www.unc.edu/pse/unctomorro
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Send comments and questions to
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