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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the University Managers' Association of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records #40296, University Archives, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from the University Managers' Association, 2006-2009 (Records transfers 20061117.1, 20080530.2, and 20090527.2).

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Processed by: University Archives Staff, February 2009

Encoded by: Rebecca Solomon, February 2009

Finding aid updated for born digital processing by Nancy Kaiser, February 2015

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Career development--North Carolina--Chapel Hill.
• Education, Higher--Management.
• Employee motivation--North Carolina--Chapel Hill.
• Universities and colleges--Employees--North Carolina--Chapel Hill.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Employees.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--History.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Societies, etc.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. University Managers' Association.

In 1981, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill established the University Management Development Program to develop leadership skills among its employees in managerial positions. The program was taught by faculty of the Kenan-Flagler Business School and other university administrators. It was offered twice each year until 1988 and then annually until 2009, when the decision was made to pause and consider ways of redesigning the program to insure its continuing effectiveness.

In 1983, a group of managers formed the University Managers' Association as a way to continue the networking that had begun among the early graduates of the University Management Development Program. The association held its first meeting on 14 September 1983. According to a 1996 brochure, "the original goals of the organization were to provide a forum for discussing issues relevant to managers in higher education and to encourage productive and supportive interactions among the members."

The activities of the University Managers' Association were overseen by its Board of Directors, who were elected from its general membership. The officers of the association (president, vice-president, secretary, and treasurer) were elected from the membership of the Board of Directors. Various committees carried out much of the association's work. The association focused on expanding training opportunites for university employees and promoting employee recognition and appreciation programs. The idea for the annual university-wide employee appreciation event originated in the association's Morale and Recognition Committee, which presented it to the Office of the Provost in 1989. The first such event, called the Employee Appreciation Fair, occurred in 1990 and was planned and sponsored by the University Managers' Association. The association continued to sponsor the event with funds provided by the university administration.

Records of the University Managers' Association, 1982-1999 and 2008, consist of correspondence, meeting minutes, constitutions, bylaws, committee files, membership directories, and other related materials. Roughly half of the records relate to the association's sponsorship of the annual university-wide Employee Appreciation Fair.

• Digital folder (DF-40296/1) available in the Carolina Digital Repository.
• Photograph (P-40296/1)
• Videocassette (VT-40296/1)
• Museum Items transferred to North Carolina Collection Gallery