General Faculty and Faculty Council of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records, 1799-2015

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Summary

Creator:
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. General Faculty.
Abstract:

The university's earliest Laws and Regulations, adopted by its Board of Trustees in 1795, defined the duties and rights of the faculty. Formal faculty meetings have been held since at least 1799; the amended Laws of the University adopted by the trustees in December 1799 included guidelines for the conduct of such meetings. Throughout the antebellum period, the faculty was responsible for enforcing social as well as academic regulations and for handling cases of student misconduct. After 1875 the faculty assumed an increasing role in establishing policies governing educational activities and the awarding of degrees by the university. The Faculty Code of University Government, originally titled Faculty Legislation, was adopted by the General Faculty in 1947 and has been amended numerous times. In 1950 the General Faculty authorized the creation of the Faculty Council to act as its legislative body. The council, composed of elected members from the various faculty divisions and ex-officio members from the university administration, held its first meeting on 5 January 1951. Officers of the faculty include the chair and the secretary. The university's chancellor presides over meetings of the Faculty Council. Much of the Faculty Council's work is carried on by its standing and special committees. Records include minutes of meetings of the General Faculty and of the Faculty Council; files of the secretary of the faculty and of the chair of the faculty; minutes of the meetings of various faculty divisions; and files of standing and special committees. Beginning in the mid-1990s, there are scattered meeting transcripts among the minutes. There are also recordings of many General Faculty and Faculty Council meetings. Subsequent additions consist of similar materials.

Extent:
43,000 items (71.0 linear feet)
Language:
Materials in English

Background

Biographical / historical:

The University's earliest Laws and Regulations, adopted by its Board of Trustees in 1795, defined the duties and rights of the faculty. Formal faculty meetings have been held since at least 1799; the amended Laws of the Universityadopted by the trustees in December 1799 included guidelines for the conduct of such meetings.

Throughout the antebellum period, the faculty was responsible for enforcing social as well as academic regulations and for handling cases of student misconduct. After 1875 the faculty assumed an increasing role in establishing policies governing educational activities and the awarding of degrees by the university. The Faculty Code of University Government, originally titled Faculty Legislation, was adopted by the General Faculty in 1947 and has been amended numerous times.

In 1950 the General Faculty authorized the creation of the Faculty Council to act as its legislative body. The council, composed of elected members from the various faculty divisions and ex-officio members from the university administration, held its first meeting on 5 January 1951. Officers of the faculty include the chair and the secretary. The university's chancellor presides over meetings of the Faculty Council. Much of the council's work is carried on by its standing and special committees.

Scope and content:

Records include minutes of meetings of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill General Faculty and of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Faculty Council; files of the secretary of the faculty and of the chair of the faculty; minutes of the meetings of various faculty divisions; and files of standing and special committees. Beginning in the mid-1990s, there are scattered meeting transcripts among the minutes. Also included are microfilm copies of General Faculty and Faculty Council meeting minutes and recordings of many General Faculty and Faculty Council meetings. Subsequent additions consist of similar materials.

Acquisition information:

Received from the Office of Faculty Governance, 1972-2011 and earlier; the Addition of January 2012 was received in June 2011 (RT 20110624.1); the Addition of April 2017 was received in March 2017 (RT 20170310.1); addition received from George Lensing in December 2018 (RT 20181212.3); subsequent additions received 2012-2016 (RT 20121203.1, RT 20130521.1, RT 20130724.1, RT 20130910.1, RT 20131209.1, RT 20160322.1); November 2019 (RT 20191121.1.; and January 2020 (20200130.2).

Processing information:

Processed by: University Archives Staff, May 1956, May 1959, October 1972, December 1972, May 1974, May 1975, August 1978, August 1979, January 1981, April 1982, May 1989, April 1993, May 1995, October 1995, January 1996, August 1996, February 2001, December 2004, March 2005, October 2008, January 2012, April 2017, June 2017

Encoded by: Susan Ballinger, March 2003

Updated by: Lewis Dorman, December 2004; Meg Tuomala and Patrick Harner, November 2008; Martin Gengenbach, January 2012; Jaffa Panken, April 2017; Jennifer Coggins, June 2017; Jennifer Coggins and Laura Smith, January 2019; Nancy Kaiser, Jessica Venlet, and Clare Carlson, January 2020; Nancy Kaiser, October 2020

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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.

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Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], in the General Faculty and Faculty Council of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records #40106, University Archives, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Location of this collection:
Louis Round Wilson Library
200 South Road
Chapel Hill, NC 27515
Contact:
(919) 962-3765
wilsonlibrary@unc.edu