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The University Board of Trustees on July 27 approved a site for a planned
expansion of Ackland Art Museum.
The board also reelected officers at the meeting.
The Ackland site is immediately east of the museum in an area now occupied by a
parking lot and the Old Porthole Building. The board approved the spot with the
understanding that it did not represent a building footprint but rather a
concept of where an addition could go.
The expansion project calls for a multi-story addition expected to double the
size of the existing 37,000-square-foot museum. The site approval by the
trustees cleared the way for museum officials to begin discussions with
architects and to start raising private funds to pay for the project.
Gerald Bolas, the museum director, said the earliest the project could be
started would most likely be in five years.
While parking spaces would be lost in the project, Bolas said campus master
planners Ayers Saint Gross plan to accommodate the museum's parking needs in
the master plan. Ayers Saint Gross has endorsed siting the addition east of the
existing museum building.
The board reelected Anne W. Cates of Chapel Hill to a second one-year term as
chair.
Other officers elected were William Jordan of Fayetteville, vice chair, and
David Pardue of Burlington, secretary.
Cates, a Winston-Salem native and vice president of Chapel Hill Realty, was a
1953 graduate of Carolina.
Jordan is chief executive officer of Global Lithotripsy Inc., which provides
kidney stone treatment. Jordan holds a 1965 degree in English and 1970 medical
degree from Carolina.
Pardue, a 1969 Carolina alumnus, is president of the Dacourt Group Inc., a real
estate investment firm in Burlington.
Cates, 68, said the board will have two equally important priorities this
fall.
The first is doing whatever can be done to help pass a $3.1 billion state bond
referendum for building needs for the state's public universities and community
colleges.
The other priority will be to support James Moeser after he takes over as
chancellor on Aug. 15. "Without a doubt, every day James Moeser is proving to
be the right choice," said Cates, who was vice chair of the committee that
recommended Moeser for the job.
In other July 27 action, the board:
* Approved a change to the trustees' tenure policy that, if endorsed by the
UNC Board of Governors, will allow faculty members on phased retirement to
serve on tenure hearing committees.
* Approved a resolution honoring the service of William O. McCoy as Carolina's
interim chancellor, saying McCoy had "served his alma mater in outstanding
fashion."
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