The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Board of Visitors Spring Meeting
April 7-8, 2011
*Dress for the Thursday reception and our meeting is business casual.
*Please see the committee meeting listings below for specific parking information. Parking for Thursday’s barbecue is available at the School of Government deck beginning at 5:30 p.m. Parking on Friday is available in the Kenan-McColl Parking Lot, past the parking deck at the Kenan-Flagler Business School. A map and your Friday parking permit are attached. Please print your electronic permit and bring a copy with you to leave on your dashboard.
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Classroom visits
Thursday, April 7, 2011
In designated locations
View the opportunities to visit classes list.
| 9 a.m.-5 p.m. | Back to Class View a list of classes taught by some of Carolina’s outstanding faculty. You will receive your assignment before our meeting, and we will try to give you one of your first three choices. Because space is so limited, please let us know if your plans change. |
| 3 p.m. | Communications Benchmarking (McColl Building, Kenan-Flagler Business School, third floor boardroom) STAR Benchmarking Presentation |
| 4-5 p.m. | State and Local Relations (Carmichael Arena, media room 1515) Legislative Talking Points Carolina Counts (Carmichael Arena, conference room 1265) Parking is available at 3:30 p.m. in the Highway 54 Visitor Lot. Please provide your name to the attendant, no pass is required. You may leave your vehicle here for the duration of the evening events. |
Carmichael Arena
| 6 - 7:30 p.m. | Barbecue dinner We will be hosted at the newly renovated Carmichael Arena and the new Women’s Basketball Museum by Charlotte Smith, assistant women’s basketball coach. Smith is perhaps best known for her performance in the 1994 NCAA Championship game, when her buzzer-beating three-pointer gave UNC the national crown. We’ll hear from one of Carolina’s student a capella groups, Unheard Voices, from the American Indian Center. Charlotte Smith, Assistant Women’s Basketball Coach Parking is available at 5:30 p.m. in the School of Government Deck. Please provide your name to the attendant, no pass is required. You may leave your vehicle here for the duration of the evening events. |
Center for Dramatic Art, Country Club Road
| 7:30 p.m. | Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Membership Involvement Committee encourages BOV members to attend Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in the Center for Dramatic Art, a short walk from Carmichael. PlayMakers Repertory Company has agreed to give our members the faculty/staff discount for this show, making it $18 per person. PlayMakers received a $40,000 National Endowment for the Arts grant for the show, its first musical in more than a decade. It is directed by the company’s producing artistic director Joseph Haj, and it will feature the Tony Award-winning Red Clay Ramblers as the onstage band. To reserve tickets, call the box office at 919-962-7529 from noon to 6 p.m. weekdays. |
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Spring Board of Visitors Meeting
April 7-8, 2011
Friday, April 8, 2011
McColl Building, Koury Auditorium
Parking is available in the Kenan-McColl Parking Lot. Please print and bring your permit with you and leave it on your dashboard.
| 8 a.m. | Continental Breakfast and Member Registration |
| 8:30 a.m. | Welcome and Remarks Michael Kennedy, Chair of the Board of Visitors Jean Elia, Associate Dean for Strategy and Administration, Kenan-Flagler Business School Robert W. Winston, Chair of the Board of Trustees |
| 9 a.m. | BOV State & Local Relations Committee Report Dana Simpson, Chair Erin Schuettpelz, Director of State Relations and Communications Visit the State Relations page to let us know who you know. |
| 9:15 a.m. | BOV Carolina Counts Committee Report Courtney Cavatoni, Chair |
| 9:30 a.m. | Generations of Students Winston Crisp received his J.D. degree from the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Law where he was inducted into the James E. and Carolyn B. Davis Society, the School of Law’s highest honor for leadership and service. Before May 2010 when he was named Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, he served as Assistant Vice Chancellor in the Dean of Students Office. “Generations of Students” will be a discussion on the changing nature of students across generations and an overview of today’s Carolina students. Winston B. Crisp, Vice Chancellor, Student Affairs |
| 10 a.m. | Student Recruitment Committee David Broughton, Co-Chair Bill Fuller, Co-Chair |
| 10:05 a.m. | Break |
| 10:15 a.m. | The earthquake and tsunami in Japan As Japan struggles in the wake of the recent massive earthquake and tsunami, the scale and extent of the challenges that emerge after natural disasters is all too obvious. UNC researchers are closely following events, watching for opportunities to help and redoubling existing efforts to find ways to avert or minimize deaths and damage from similar future events, no matter where they occur. Seismologist Jonathan Lees began following developments almost immediately after the quake hit. A geological sciences professor, Lees worked in Sendai in 2009 and has collaborated with researchers at Japan’s National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention for more than 20 years. Jonathan Lees, Professor, Geological Sciences |
| 10:45 a.m. | BOV Communications Benchmarking Team Report The Communications Benchmarking committee is assisting with a marketing study in partnership with University Relations and the Kenan-Flagler Business School's STAR program (Student Teams Achieving Results), in which top undergraduate and graduate business school students help build strategies for organizations to build and maintain competitiveness. The STAR team is looking at how Carolina can advance its marketing goals through strategic investments in marketing communications. STAR Benchmarking Presentation Michael Smith, co-chair Kenan-Flagler Business School STAR team |
| 11:30 a.m. | Voices of Carolina Students Hear about Carolina from some of the students who experience it firsthand every day. This will be moderated by Immediate Past President of the Student Body Hogan Medlin and Student Body President Mary Cooper. Jerry Bowens, Sophomore, Business Mary Cooper, Student Body President Roy Dawson, Senior, Political Science Courtney Lewis, PhD, Philosophy (Anthropology) Hogan Medlin, Immediate Past Student Body President Katy Werlin, Senior, Dramatic Arts major and Music minor |
Lunch
Kenan Center
| 12:15 p.m. | Lunch in the Kenan Center A conversation with Chancellor Holden Thorp |
| 12:45 p.m. | Closing Remarks Michael Kennedy, Chair |
| 2 p.m. | Adjourn We hope to see you October 13-15 for our fall Board of Visitors meeting and the football game against the University of Miami. |
revised 4/7/2011