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Abstract | Michael Hooker was chief administrative officer of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1 July 1995 until his death on 29 June 1999. Beginning in April 1999, he had taken a two-month medical leave, during which William O. McCoy served as acting chancellor. Records include correspondence and other files relating to the administration of, and academic programs at, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Of particular interest are files on long-range planning, especially land use planning; educational technology initiatives; development activities; public relations and the university's public service mission; the intellectual climate for undergraduates; and campus race relations, including the class-action lawsuit by the university housekeepers. |
Creator | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Chancellor. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. University Archives. |
Language | English. |
Processed by: University Archives Staff, February 2002, February 2004, April 2005, January 2008; January 2012, January 2013; Jennifer Coggins and Nick Graham, June 2016; Jennifer Coggins and Laura Smith, March 2018.
Encoded by: Elizabeth Johnson, March 2003; Gergana Abernathy, July 2016
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Michael Hooker was chief administrative officer of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1 July 1995 until his death from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma on 29 June 1999. Beginning in April 1999, he had taken a two-month medical leave, during which William O. McCoy served as acting chancellor.
Originally from West Virginia, Hooker became the first member of his family to earn a college degree when he received his B.A. in Philosophy with Highest Honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1969. He received his M.A. and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1972 and 1973, respectively. He taught at Harvard University and John Hopkins University before turning to administration. He was Associate Dean and then Dean of Undergraduate and Graduate Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He then served successively as President of Bennington College; the University of Maryland, Baltimore County; and the University of Massachusetts before accepting the chancellorship of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was a recognized authority on seventeenth-century philosophy as well as medical and applied ethics.
Hooker was determined to make the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill the top public university in the United States. He worked to improve the intellectual climate on campus as well as the undergraduate experience. He supported initiatives designed to combat alcohol and substance abuse; and he stressed support of faculty, staff, and graduate students.
During his administration, Chancellor Hooker successfully advocated the necessity of upgrading the university to modern technology. Among the initiatives he launched were internet-based online courses; Learn North Carolina (LEARN NC), an effort to help public school teachers use technology in classrooms through shared lesson plans and teaching materials; the Lighthouse Project, which provided internet-based discussion and support for new teachers; and the Carolina Computing Initiative, designed to provide every University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student with equal access to technology.
Hooker was determined to make the university more aware of its responsibilities to the people and the state of North Carolina. He felt that a public university should serve the people of the state. He independently undertook a tour of the 100 North Carolina counties in order to better understand the university's position within the state. He also accompanied new faculty members through the state on the newly initiated Faculty Bus Tour.
He worked to be accessible to students and student concerns. During home basketball games he sat in the student section. In 1997, during the game with Duke University, he became the first chancellor to agree to "crowd-surf."
Chancellor Hooker's administration carried the campus through the tragic deaths of five students in the Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity fire on 12 May 1996. In September 1996, he joined in the cleanup effort after Hurricane Fran swept the campus.
Michael Hooker was diagnosed with lymphoma in January 1999.
Back to TopRecords include correspondence and other files relating to the administration of, and academic programs at, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Of particular interest are files on long-range planning, especially land use planning; educational technology initiatives; development activities; public relations and the university's public service mission; the intellectual climate for undergraduates; and campus race relations, including the class-action lawsuit by the university housekeepers.
Back to TopThis series contains files pertaining to university-wide issues and topics, including university committees and task forces whose memberships were broad-based. Files pertaining to specific administrative divisions of the university, as well as to faculty government and to agencies and organizations outside the university, will be found in the subsequent series.
Included here are files on the departments and schools that make up the Division of Academic Affairs. Also found here are files on several of the offices that support the university's academic mission--the Office of Undergraduate Admissions, the Office of Scholarships and Student Aid, the University Registrar, and the Office of Institutional Research--which reported to the Office of the Provost during Chancellor Hooker's tenure.
In the records of earlier chancellors, this series has contained files related to the Division of University Affairs, which previously included the campus offices responsible for admissions, academic record keeping, institutional research, and student aid. Through a series of administrative reorganizations, the units in the Division of University Affairs were moved to other divisions. By 1990, the Vice Chancellor for University Affairs no longer had oversight of any of the division's previous units. Instead, his primary duty was to act as an assistant to the chancellor for minority affairs. In 1996 both the division and the vice chancellorship were eliminated, and the Office of Minority Affairs was created. See Minority Affairs, Office of, in Series 1.
Prior to 1996, oversight of information technology was divided between two offices. The Office of Information Technology, headed by the Associate Provost for Information Technology, was responsible for academic computing and networking. Administrative Data Processing, whose Director reported to the Vice Chancellor for Business and Finance, was responsible for administrative computing. Chancellor Hooker felt strongly that oversight of information technology should be consolidated. As part of his administrative reorganization of April 1996, he created the position of Chief Information Officer, which would assume responsibility for the Office of Information Technology and Administrative Data Processing as well as Telecommunications. William H. Graves, who had been Associate Provost for Information Technology, served as Interim Chief Information Officer while a search was conducted for a permanent CIO. In July 1997 Marian Moore was appointed to the permanent position. In August 1998 a vice chancellorship was created, and Moore was appointed Vice Chancellor for Information Technology. See also files related to information technology under General Administration in Series 1.
Box 19 |
Vice Chancellor for Information Technology, General, 1995-1999Includes Associate Provost for Information Technology and Office of Information Technology. See also North Carolina, State of: Department of Commerce in Series 12. |
Carolina Computing Initiative, 1998-1999 |
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Videotape VT-40026/4 |
Carolina Computing Initiative: "Laptops, IBM, and UNC," 15 July 1998Records transfer 20161008.1 WTVD, WRAL, and WLFL. |
Box 19 |
Committee for Coordination for University Web Documents, 1995 |
Committee to Review Email Policies, 1998 |
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Distance Learning, 1996-1999See also General Administration: Distance Learning in Series 1; see also IBM, iLX, and University Access in Series 12. |
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Information Technology Strategy Project, 1998-1999 |
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North Carolina Giganet, 1997 |
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Supercomputing (see General Administration: Task Force on High Performance Computing in Series 1) |
The files in this series relate to the university's intercollegiate athletics program.
Files in this series relate to the offices that comprised the Division of Finance and Administration during Chancellor Hooker's tenure and to their functions, which included the handling of the university's budget, business operations, facilities planning and maintenance, personnel management, security, and related matters. The Division of Finance and Administration was previously named Division of Business and Finance. In April 1996, in conjunction with a campus-wide administrative reorganization, the name of the division changed to Administration; in August 1998 it changed to Finance and Administration.
The majority of the files in this series pertain to the university's fundraising activities. Also located here are files relating to the university's public relations program, including information on the Faculty Bus Tour and Chancellor Hooker's outreach visits.
Included in this series are files relating to faculty government, including files on committees that reported to the Faculty Council. Files on university-wide committees will be found in Series 1.
This series includes files related to the university's research activities and to the programs of the Graduate School.
This series contains files on the academic units and research centers that comprise the Division of Health Affairs. Files on the University of North Carolina Hospitals will also be found here. Until 1997 the Vice Provost (formerly Vice Chancellor) for Health Affairs had oversight of the division. That position was eliminated in 1997, and the Health Affairs units began reporting to the Provost.
Files in this series pertain to offices in the Division of Student Affairs and to their functions, which involved the provision of extracurricular services and programs to the students of the university. Also included here are files on various student organizations, including Student Government.
This series includes the chancellor's correspondence with and related to the university's Board of Trustees. Also included here are the chancellor's files on the committees of the Board of Trustees. Minutes and reports of the board will be found in the Records of the Board of Trustees, a separate records group in the University Archives.
Files in this series pertain to agencies and organizations outside the university with which the university has, or has had, relationships. Many are organizations of which the university is, or was, a member. Many are foundations and corporations from which the university has sought support. Also included here are files on agencies of North Carolina state government and of the federal government. Note, however, that this series does not contain all of the chancellor's records related to outside organizations. Correspondence with an outside organization that pertains to a particular department or program of the university will generally be found with the other files on that department or program.
This series contains items from files related to the Associate Vice Chancellor for Human Resources and the Office of Undergraduate Admissions. These items are CLOSED to researchers until 75 years from the date of creation because they contain personnel information protected by Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.) and information on individual applicants that is protected under the Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA).
Aquisitions Information: RT 20160629.2.
Correspondence, minutes, and reports related to the New Careers Training Program, 1998-1999. The New Careers Training Program was established by the Chancellor on 11 March 1997 to assist the university in addressing the training needs of UNC's lower-paid employees. In these records, board members discuss training programs and the establishment of a computer lab for university staff.
Folder 958 |
New Careers Training Board, 1998-1999 |
Aquisitions Information: RT 20171219.1.
Consists of one file containing correspondence to and from Michael Hooker during the 1995 search that resulted in his being hired as Chancellor.
Folder 959 |
Chancellor Search Committee, 1995 |