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Faculty Retirement Planning Guide
We are pleased to announce that the UNC-Chapel Hill Faculty Retirement Planning Guide is now available as an interactive pdf on the Retirement Planning page of the HR website. This new resource assembles in one place the most retirement-relevant information for faculty at all career stages, from initial employment through the transition into retirement. The Faculty Retirement Guide addresses a variety of topics including: Catch-up contributions and beneficiary designations. Implementing other retirement support like Social Security and Medicare. Emeritus designation and maintaining your UNC connections. This guide features the collective advice from over 30 recently retired UNC-Chapel Hill faculty, and
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External Professional Activities for Pay (EPAP) 2021-2022
Friday, June 25th, 2021 TO: All EHRA Faculty and Non-Faculty employees CC: Deans, Directors, and Department Chairs School/Division HR Officers and Secondary Contacts FROM: Linc Butler, Associate Vice Chancellor for Human Resources, and Interim Assistant Provost for Academic Personnel SUBJECT: External Professional Activities for Pay (EPAP) Pursuant to the Board of Governors’ Policy on External Professional Activities, we are reminding all EHRA Faculty and EHRA Non-Faculty employees that External Professional Activities for Pay (EPAP) requests for any activities that are currently known to occur in the time period of July 1, 2021, to June 30, 2022, should be submitted into the online Activities,
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Faculty Intermittent – Short Work Break and Return from Work Break
Faculty Intermittent are temporary faculty appointments who have variable teaching schedules and other work throughout the academic year where the total of work performed does not reach the amount of full-time for the faculty to be in a Visiting appointment. At go-live, the process in ConnectCarolina to stop monthly payments during the period of inactivity was to process a hire/transfer ePAR into a non-compensated and 0 FTE appointment. Beginning May 14, 2021, the new process is to place the Faculty Intermittent on Short Work Break (SWB) during inactivity using the Edit Existing Job ePAR. When the activity resumes, process a
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Board of Trustees Approves Temporary Change to Tenure Policy
Friday, May 14th, 2021 Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been disruptions to normal University operations, including limitations on faculty members’ ability to carry out research and scholarship activities. In response, the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost has encouraged tenure track faculty members experiencing delays in scholarship, research or creative activities which affect their promotion and tenure to utilize the existing tenure clock extension request process. Click here to view the continued announcement and temporary policy change. Trustee Policies and Regulations Governing Academic Tenure Extension of Tenure Clock (Probationary Term of Appointment)
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25 earn 2021 University Teaching Awards
Carolina honored 25 faculty members and teaching assistants for their accomplishments with 2021 University Teaching Awards. Given annually, these awards acknowledge the University’s commitment to outstanding teaching and mentoring for graduate and undergraduate students. “Throughout a challenging year in the midst of a global pandemic, the winners quickly adapted to new ways of teaching. They persevered to maintain their focus on helping students become critical thinkers and problem solvers, while inspiring them to take on the most important challenges facing society,” said Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Robert A. Blouin. “Our award winners are shining examples of the University’s commitment
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