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February 4, 2015 Meeting
February 4, 2015 @ 9:15 am - 11:30 am
Employee Forum General Meeting Agenda
UNC-Chapel Hill Employee Forum Agenda
9:15 a.m.
Pleasants Family Assembly Room, Wilson Library
I. Call to Order & Opening Remarks—Chair Charles Streeter (9:15 a.m. – 9:18 a.m.)
- Open call for announcements and questions for the end of the meeting
II. Welcome to Guests & Members of the Press
III. Approval of January Minutes (Sharepoint Link, Delegate-Only Access) (9:20 a.m. – 9:25 a.m.)
IV. Human Resources Update—Vice Chancellor for Workforce Strategy, Equity, and Engagement Felicia Washington (9:25 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.)
V. Special Presentation (9:45 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.)
- Professor Theodore M. “Ted” Shaw, Director of UNC Center for Civil Rights
Theodore M. “Ted” Shaw [joined] the UNC School of Law July 1, 2014, as the first Julius L. Chambers Distinguished Professor of Law and as director of the UNC Center for Civil Rights. The position had been open since founding director Julius L. Chambers, who died [in 2013], stepped down in 2010.
Previously Shaw served as director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF), the legal arm of the civil rights movement founded by Thurgood Marshall, who later became an associate justice of the Supreme Court. Chambers was LDF’s third director; Shaw was the fifth, serving from 2004 to 2008. Shaw joined the LDF in 1982 to litigate school desegregation, voting and other civil rights cases.
Shaw, a graduate of Wesleyan University and Columbia Law School, began his career as a trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division. He joined the LDF in 1982, litigating at the trial and appellate levels, including the Supreme Court, and established LDF’s Western Regional Office in Los Angeles. Shaw was counsel for African American students in the University of Michigan undergraduate affirmative action admissions case heard by the Supreme Court in 2003. He also played a key role in initiating the review of Michigan Law School’s admissions policies and served on committees that adopted the plan that was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court. (http://www.law.unc.edu/news/story.aspx?cid=911)
VI. Break (10:00 a.m. – 10:05 a.m.)
VII. Forum Committees (10:05 a.m. – 10:35 a.m.)
- Carolina Blood Drive: Todd Hux
- Carolina Community Garden Advisory: Arlene Medder
- Communications and Public Relations: Katie Turner
- Education and Career Development: Andy Eaker
- Recognition & Awards
- Membership & Assignments: Karen Jenkins
- Personnel Issues: Yvonne Dunlap
- Compensation & Benefits: Chrissie Greenberg/Kelli Raker
- Legislative Action: Kirk Montgomery
- Staff Relations, Policies & Practices: Everett Deloney/Rocky Riviella
- UNC System Staff Assembly: Shane Hale/James Holman/Charles Streeter
- Executive Committee: Charles Streeter
VIII. Old Business (10:35 a.m. – 10:40 a.m.)
IX. New Business (10:40 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.)
- Proposed Resolution 15-01, Concerning Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment (first reading)
- Support for UNC Centers
- Next President of UNC
X. Announcements/Questions (11:15 a.m. – 11:25 a.m.)
XI. Adjournment