UNC General Alumni Association
• 24 hours ago
From the Carolina Alumni Review: Budget Cutting Begins With 7.5 Percent in Operating Funds
The University’s financial problems didn’t start with the coronavirus pandemic, but the health crisis has exacerbated the need for budget cutting, UNC’s top administrators are telling the campus community.
They are sharing information about a plan that calls for a 7.5 percent reduction to operating funds across schools and units and a 1.5 percent reduction to personnel funds and for the 2020-21 fiscal year, followed by identical cuts for the following year.
Full story at https://unc.live/3qvGe02
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UNC General Alumni Association
• 1 day ago
From the Carolina Alumni Review: DTH Cuts Print to One Day a Week
The Daily Tar Heel sustained three printed newspapers a week during the first full semester of the COVID-19 pandemic, but it can no longer. The 128-year paper has moved to one printed edition per week.
Beginning January 20, the campus community can “find us in our blue boxes on campus and around Chapel Hill each Wednesday,” according to the paper’s announcement of the change, “and you can find us every day on our website, in your inbox and on social media.”
Full story at https://unc.live/39Tpmtc
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UNC General Alumni Association
• 3 days ago
Sara Schairer ’99 sees “compassion” as an action verb. Her Compassion It nonprofit spurs people not just to feel empathy but to take action to relieve suffering and injustice. She conducts training in compassion cultivation for prisons, schools, community organizations and corporations and is working with the University of California at San Diego to develop a curriculum for police departments looking to make reforms stemming from racial injustice protests. GAA members, read on in the latest issue of the Carolina Alumni Review. alumni.unc.edu/car #UNCAlumni
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UNC General Alumni Association
• 4 days ago
From the Carolina Alumni Review: GAA Board Elections Underway; Annual Meeting Set
UNC General Alumni Association members have begun casting votes for candidates for the association’s Board of Directors.
All GAA members as of Jan. 1, 2021, are eligible and encouraged to vote in each race, including races representing areas other than those in which the member lives. Members can vote online or by mail.
More information at https://unc.live/3id8cdZ
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