History of the University of North Carolina
The University of North Carolina Sixteen Constituent
Institutions
Officers of The University
Members of the Board of Governors
The UNC Charlotte Board of Trustees
Administrative Officers and Staff
Business Affairs
Development and University Relations
Student Affairs
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History of the
In
The
In 1877, the N.C. General Assembly began sponsoring additional institutions of higher education, diverse in origin and purpose. Five were historically black institutions, and another was founded to educate American Indians. Several were created to prepare teachers for the public schools. Others had a technological emphasis. One is a training school for performing artists.
In 1931, the N.C. General Assembly redefined
the University of North Carolina to include three state-supported institutions:
the campus at Chapel Hill (now the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill), North Carolina State College (now North Carolina State University at
Raleigh), and Woman's College (now the University of North Carolina at
Greensboro). The new multi-campus University operated with one board of
trustees and one president. By 1969, three additional campuses had joined the
University through legislative action: the
In 1971, the General Assembly passed legislation bringing into the University of North Carolina the state's ten remaining public senior institutions, each of which had until then been legally separate: Appalachian State University, East Carolina University, Elizabeth City State University, Fayetteville State University, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, North Carolina Central University, the North Carolina School of the Arts, Pembroke State University (now the University of North Carolina at Pembroke), Western Carolina University, and Winston-Salem State University. This action created the current 16-campus University. (In 1985, the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, a residential high school for gifted students, was declared an affiliated school of the University.)
The UNC Board of Governors is the
policy-making body legally charged with "the general determination,
control, supervision, management, and governance of all affairs of the
constituent institutions." It elects the president, who administers the
University. The 32 voting members of the Board of Governors are elected by the
General Assembly for four-year terms. Former board chairmen and board members
who are former governors of
Each of the 16 constituent institutions is headed by a chancellor, who is chosen by the Board of Governors on the president's nomination and is responsible to the president. Each institution has a board of trustees, consisting of eight members elected by the Board of Governors, four appointed by the governor, and the president of the student body, who serves ex-officio. (The NC School of the Arts has two additional ex-officio members.) Each board of trustees holds extensive powers over academic and other operations of its institution on delegation from the Board of Governors.
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The
Officers of The University
C.D. Spangler, Jr., B.S., M.B.A., D.H.L.,
LL.D, President
Roy Carroll, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Vice President-Academic Affairs
Judith Pulley, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Vice President-Planning
Nathan F. Simms, Jr., B.S., M.S., Ph.D, Vice President-Student
Services and Special Programs
William O. McCoy, B.S., M.S., Vice President-Finance
Jasper D. Memory, B.S., Ph.D., Vice President-Research and Public
Service
David G. Martin, B.A., LL.B., Vice President-Public Affairs
Gary Barnes, B.A., M.S., Ph.D., Vice President-Program Assessment and
Public Service
Rosalind R. Fuse-Hall, B.S., J.D., Secretary of the University
Richard H. Robinson, Jr., A.B., LL.B, Assistant to the President
Members of the Board of Governors
C. Clifford Cameron, Charlotte, Chairman
Benfamin S. Ruffin, Winston-Salem, Vice Chairman
John F.A.V. Cecil, Asheville, Secretary
G. Irvin Aldridge, Manteo
Mark L. Bibbs, Raleigh
Lois G. Britt, Rose Hill
F. Edward Broadwell, Jr., Asheville
Robert J. Brown, High Point
William T. Brown, Fayetteville
Derick S. Close, Charlotte
Bert Collins, Durham
Orville D. Coward, Sr., Sylva
John E. Dervin (ex officio), Chapel Hill
John C. Fennebresque, Charlotte
John A. Garwood, North Wilkesboro
James E. Holshouser (Emeritus) Southern Pines
Larnie G. Horton, Sr., Raleigh
Wallace N. Hyde, Raleigh
Jack P. Jordan, Mount Gilead
C. Ralph Kinsey, Jr., Charlotte
Helen Rhyne Marvin, Gastonia
W. Kenneth Morgan, Sr., Jacksonville
D. Samuel Neill, Hendersonville
Ellen S. Newbold, Rose Hill
Maxine H. O’Kelley, Burlington
Cary C. Owen, Asheville
Barbara S. Perry, Kinston
D. Wayne Peterson, Westwood
Earl N. Phillips, Jr., High Point
Samuel H. Poole, Emeritus, Raleigh
Marshall A. Rauch, Gastonia
H. D. Reaves, Jr., Fayetteville
Paul J. Rizzo, Chapel Hill
Joseph E. Thomas, New Bern
Harold H. Webb, Raleigh
The UNC Charlotte Board of Trustees
Chairman, Russell M. Robinson, II,
Charlotte
Vice Chairman, Ruth G. Shaw, Charlotte
Secretary, (Vacant)
Ex Officio Member, Terry Eaton, Student Body President, Charlotte
Assistant Secretary, James E. Dixon, III, Charlotte
TERM EXPIRES JUNE 30, 1999
Stephanie R. Counts, Charlotte
Dorothy W. Harris,
The Honorable Irwin Belk, Charlotte
Robert B. Jordan III,
Ruth G. Shaw,
TERM EXPIRES JUNE 30, 1997
Howard C. Bissell, Charlotte
The Honorable James B. Garland, Gastonia
Russell M. Robinson, II, Charlotte
Charles M. Shelton, Charlotte
Edward J. Snyder, Jr. Albemarle
James W. Thompson, Charlotte
HONORARY TRUSTEES
Mary J. Adair, Charlotte
Thomas M. Belk, Charlotte
F. Douglas Biddy, Durham
Sara H. Bissell, Charlotte
William E. Blutord, Charlotte
Douglas W. Booth, Charlotte
C .C . Cameron, Raleigh
Kathleen R. Crosby, Charlotte
R. Stuart Dickson, Charlotte
John L. Fraley, Cherryville
John L. Fraley, Jr, Cherryville
James C. Fry, Gastonia
Elisabeth G. Hair, Charlotte
James A. Hardison, Jr, Wadesboro
Howard H. Haworth, Morganton
W. Duke Kimbrell, Gastonia
Graeme M. Keith, Charlotte
Margaret R. King, Charlotte
John D. Lewis, Charlotte
Bobby G. Lowery, Charlotte
Hugh L. McColl, Jr., Charlotte
Martha M. Melvin, Harrisburg
Meredith R. Spangler, Chapel Hill
Thomas I. Storrs, Charlotte
Eulada P. Watt, Charlotte
James L. Woodson, Salisbury
Bland W. Worley, Winston-Salem
Administrative Officers and Staff
CHANCELLOR'S OFFICE
James H. Woodward, B.S.A.E., M.S.A.E., Ph.D.,
M.B.A., Chancellor
James E. Dixon, III, A.B., M.A., J.D., Executive Assistant to the Chancellor
and Assistant Secretary of the Board of Trustees
William M. Steimer, B.A., J.D., University Attorney
ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
Denise M. Trauth, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.,
Interim Provost and Vice Chancellor
Roger G. Brown, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Interim Senior Associate Vice Chancellor
for Academic Affairs
Wanda B. Fisher, B.S., Director, Academic Planning and Institutional
Research
Lucy C. Henry, B.A., M.A., Director, Office of Research
Terrel L. Rhodes, B.A., M.A., Ph.D, Associate Vice Chancellor,
Academic Programs
Jane O. Rochester, B.A., M.Ed., Director, Office of Disability
Services
Charlynn E. Ross, B.S., M.A., Director, University Learning Center
Gregory Davis, B.A., M.Div., Ph.D., Director, Minority Academic
Services
Denise Dwight Shea, B.S., M.S., Director, University Career Center
Samuel Dibble Watson, B.A., M.A. Ph.D., Director, University Writing
Programs
LTC Patrick Charters, B.A., M.A., Chair, Department of Aerospace
Studies
Major Alvin E. Vavra, B.B.A., M.A., M.B.A., Chair, Army ROTC
Kathi M. Baucom, B.A., M.Ed., Assistant Vice Chancellor for Enrollment
Management and University Registrar
Bonnie Rugar, B.A., M.A., Associate Registrar
Janet D. Daniel, B.S., M.Ed., Ed.S., Director, Office of Adult
Students and Evening Services
Craig C. Fulton, B.A., Director, Undergraduate Admissions
David Yancey, B.S., M.E., Ph.D., Director, Academic Information
Systems
William J. McCoy, A.B., M.A., Ph.D., Associate Vice Chancellor, Extended
Academic Programs
Constance L. Martin, B.A., M.L.S., Ed.D., Director, Continuing Education,
Extension, and Summer Programs
Robert J. Mundt, A.B., M.A., Ph.D., Interim Associate Vice Chancellor
for Graduate Programs and Dean of the Graduate School
Gary M. Morgan, B.S., M.A., Director of Special Projects, Graduate
School
Harold Josephson, B.A., M.A., Ph.D, Associate Vice Chancellor,
International Programs
Jeffrey Adams-Davis, B.A., M.A., Director, English Language Training
Institute
Marian Beane, B.A., M.A, Director, International Students and Scholars
Services
Patrick J. O’Neill, B.A., M.P.A., Director, International Admissions
Raymond A. Frankle, A.A., B.A., M.L.S., Associate Vice Chancellor,
Library and Information Services
Wilson M. Stahl, B.S., M.S.L.S., M.S., Director, Information
Technology Planning
Beverly Mitzel, B.A., M.Ed., Director, Media Services
Charles Clinton Hight, B.Arch., Dean, College of Architecture
Eric J. Sauda, A.B., M.Arch., Chair for Instruction
Schley R. Lyons, B.S.B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Dean, College of Arts and
Sciences
Edward S. Perzel, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Associate Dean
Lesley A. Brown, B.S.E., M.A., Director of Sponsored Research
Mario J. Azevedo, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Chair, Department of
African-American and African Studies
Sally A. Kovach, B.F.A., M.Ed., M.F.A., Ed.D, Chair, Department of Art
Mark G. Clemens, B.S., Ph.D., Chair, Department of Biology
Arthur Greenberg, B.A., M.S., Ph.D., Chair, Department of Chemistry
Bill J. Hill, Jr., B.S., M.A., Ph.D., Chair, Communication Studies
Paul C. Friday, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Chair, Department of Criminal
Justice
Sybil D. Huskey, B.F.A., M.F.A., Chair, Department of Dance and
Theatre
Ronald F. Lunsford, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Chair, Department of English
Michael Scott Doyle, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Chair, Department of Foreign
Languages
Wayne A. Walcott, B.S., M.A., Ph.D., Chair, Department of Geography
and Earth Sciences
Carole R. Haber, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Chair, Department of History
Ram C. Tiwari, B.S., M.S., Ph.D., Chair, Department of Mathematics
Douglas E. Bish, B.M., M.M., D.M.A., Chair, Department of Music
William C. Gay, B.A., Ph.D., Chair, Department of Philosophy
Silverio P. Almeida, B.A., M.S., Ph.D., Chair, Department of Physics
Theodore S. Arrington, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Interim Chair, Department of
Political Science
Margaret Stanley-Hagan, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Chair, Department of
Psychology
Jeffrey F. Meyer, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Chair, Department of Religious
Studies
M. Dwayne Smith, B.S., M.A., Ph.D., Chair, Department of Sociology,
Anthropology, and Social Work
Edward M. Mazze, B.B.A., M.B.A., Ph.D., Dean, Belk College of Business
Administration
Richard M. Conboy, B.S.B.A., M.B.A., Ph.D., Associate Dean
Virginia S. Geurin, B.S., B.A., M.B.A., Ph.D., Associate Dean
A. Beth Totaro, B.A., M.P.A., Director, Special Projects
D. Anthony Plath, B.A., M.B.A., D.B.A., Director, Center for Banking Studies
L. Howard Godfrey, B.S., M.A., Ph.D., Chair, Department of Accounting
Vacant, Chair, Department of Economics
Irvin B. Tucker, B.S., M.A., Ph.D., Director, Center for Economic
Education
Vacant, Chair, Department of Finance and Business Law
Stella M. Nkomo, B.S., M.B.A., Ph.D., Chair, Department of Management
Joanna R. Baker, B.A., M.S., Ph.D., Chair, Department of
Information&Operations Management
Linda E. Swayne, B.B.A., M.B.A., Ph.D, Chair, Department of Marketing
John M. Nagle, B.A., M.A.T., Ph.D., Dean, College of Education
Melba C. Spooner, A.A., B.A., M.Ed., Ed.D, Assistant Dean and Director
of the Teaching Fellows Program
Mary Lynne Calhoun, A.B., M.Ed., Ph.D., Chair, Department of
Counseling, Special Education, and Child Development
James E. Lyons, B.S., M.A., Ph.D., Chair, Department of
Educational Administration, Research, and Technology
Eugene Schaffer, B.A., M.Ed., Ed.D., Chair, Department of Middle,
Secondary, and K-12 Education
Barbara Ann Edwards, B.S., M.A., Ph.D., Chair, Department of
Reading and Elementary Education
Victoria Page Jaus, B.A., M.S., Ed.S., Director, Office of Field
Experiences
Dawson Hancock, B.S., M.Ed., M.A., Ph.D., Director, Office of
Student Academic Services
Josephine D. Wallace, B.S., M.A.Ed., Ph.D., Director, Mathematics
and Science Education Center
Shirley W. Farrar, B.S., M.A., Director, Office of Educational
Outreach
Robert Douglas Snyder, B.S.M.E., M.S.M.E., Ph.D., Dean, The William
States Lee College of Engineering
Harry John Leamy, B.S., Ph.D., Associate Dean and Director, Cameron
Applied Research Center
Silvia Gilbert Middleton, B.S., M.S., Ph.D., Assistant Dean
John MacKay Roblin, B.S., M.S., Ph.D., Director, Engineering Research
and Industrial Development
David Thomas Young, B.S.C.E., M.S.C.E., Ph.D., Chair, Department of
Civil Engineering
Joseph Edward Quinn, B.S., Ph.D., Chair, Department of Computer
Science
Farid Michel Tranjan, B.S., M.S., Ph.D., Chair, Department of
Electrical Engineering
Cheng Liu, B.S.C.E., M.S.C.E., P.E., Interim Chair, Department of
Engineering Technology
Robert Edward Johnson, B.S., M.S., Ph.D., Chair, Department of
Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science
Sue M. Bishop, B.S.N., M.S.N., Ph.D., Dean, College of Nursing and
Health Professions
Barbara A. Carper, B.S., M.Ed., Ed.D., Associate Dean
Leslie C. Hussey, A.D.N., B.S.N., M.S.N., Ph.D., Chair, Department of
Adult Health Nursing
Debra P. Hymovich, B.S., M.A., Ph.D., Interim Chair, Department of
Family and Community Nursing, and Associate Dean
J. Timothy Lightfoot, B.S., M.Ed., Ph.D., Chair, Department of Health
Promotion and Kinesiology
BUSINESS AFFAIRS
Olen B. Smith, Jr., B.S., M.B.A, Vice
Chancellor
Elizabeth A. Hardin, B.B.A., M.B.A., Associate Vice Chancellor for
Business and Planning Analysis
Robert J. Wells, B.S., M.S., P.E., Associate Vice Chancellor,
Facilities Management
D. Craig Bizzell, B.A., Director, Financial Services
Gary W. Stinnett, B.Ed., M.A., Director, Human Resources
Anthony Purcell, B.A., M.S., Director, Police and Public Safety
James H. Houston, B.S., Director, Purchasing
Gregory M. Lovins, B.S., M.B.A., C.P.A., Director, Internal Audit
Barry Godlewski, B.A., Director, Systems Development
B.R. Norris, B.S., Controller
Sherrie High, B.S., C.P.A., Budget Officer
Sharon L. Kiser, B.S., Sponsored Programs Manager
Charles G. Rust, B.S., P.E., Director, Capital Improvements
David M. Morton, Director, Engineering and Planning
Charles R. Puckett, B.B.A., Director, Maintenance and Operations
Martin D. Zimmerman, B.Arch., M.A., A. I.A, Director, Facilities
Planning
Michael W. Long, B.A., Director, Telecommunications
James L. Crawford, B.A., Manager, Bookstore
Charles W. Seigler, B.S., M.A., Safety Director
DEVELOPMENT AND UNIVERSITY RELATIONS
R. Edward Kizer, Jr., A.B., Vice
Chancellor for Development and University Relations
Garry L. Ballard, B.A., Director, Alumni Affairs
Jonathon L. Benson, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., President and Executive
Director The Ben Craig Center
George F. McAllister, B.S., C.P.A., Director, Small Business &
Technology Department Center
Jack E. Claiborne, B.A., M.A., Director, Public Relations
Vivian M. Fogle, B.A., Director, Printing
Sandra M. James, B.S., Director, Development
STUDENT AFFAIRS
Charles F. Lynch, B.A., M.Ed., Vice
Chancellor
Theodore W. Elling, B.A., M.S., Ed.D., Assistant to the Vice
Chancellor for Systems Development and Research
Brenda J. Richardson, B.S., M.Ed., Ed.D., Associate Vice Chancellor
and Dean of Students
Diane Waryold, B.S., M.Ed., Ph.D., Assistant Dean of Students
J. David Whorton, B.S., M.Ed., Assistant Dean of Students
Angela M. Haigler, B.A., M.S., Assistant Dean of Students
Ronald B. Simono, B.S., M.S., Ph.D., Director, Counseling and Health
Services
James A. Mallinson, Jr., B.A., M.A., Director, Student Health Services
Keith N. Wassum, B.A., M.B.A., Associate Vice Chancellor for Student
Life and Facilities Management
James M. Hoppa, B.S., M.S., Director, Cone University Center
Marcia Kennard Kiessling, B.A., M.S., Director of Student Activities
Davin P. Olsen, B.S., Director, Recreational Facilities Management
Karen McDonald, B.S., M.Ed., University Conference Manager
Arthur A. Kohn, A.B., B.A., M.Ed., Director, Venture
Wayne Maikranz, B.A., M.A., Student Media Adviser
Terrie V. Houck, B.S., M.Ed., Director, Intramural & Recreational
Services
Roy R. Fielding, B.A., M.Ed., Aquatics Director
Curtis R. Whalen, B.S., M.Ed., Director, Student Financial Aid
Jacklyn A. Simpson, B.S., M.Ed., Associate Vice Chancellor for Housing
and Residence Life
Phillip Riordan, B.A., M.A., Associate Director, Programs
Frank Fleming, B.S., M.Ed., Associate Director, Operations
The following persons are employed by various denominations and churches
and are present on campus to serve the spiritual needs of the University
community:
Donald S. Rogers, B.A., B.D, M.A., Baptist
Daniel McClintock, B.A., M. Div., Baptist
Barbara Neff Hutchison, B.A., M.A., Catholic
Lou Ann Sellers, B.S., M. Div., Methodist/Presbyterian/Lutheran
Ida Johnson, B.A., M. Div., Episcopal
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