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abstract

  • Amount - 50% of Salary and Travel Expenses (Estimated - $55,000 for Fall 2009, Travel Expenses for Fall 2009 and Spring 2010).Email Sent to Colleagues Introducing New Role as Senior Faculty Fellow:Dr. Killingsworth is in the Department of Management Information Systems and focuses her work on labor markets and systems analysis and design. She has been teaching online for several years and will be doing so this term as well. She is also a past chair of the Faculty Assembly of the University of North Carolina. In that capacity she was a key participant providing valuable faculty input to the revision of the academic planning development and assessment process. In that regard she will work with Academic Planning as the new process is implemented. While she will be involved in a range of issues and areas she will initially focus on issues such as online learning, faculty teaching workload, working with the implementation of UNC Tomorrow, and accountability, especially learning outcomes. While her role is in Academic Affairs, Dr Killingsworth would welcome the opportunity to work on issues in other divisions where a faculty perspective would be helpful or where an issue could benefit from her expertise.ÂÂÂHer e-mail address here at GA is bkillingsworth@northcarolina.edu and her normal pattern will be to be at GA on Mondays and Thursdays.Alan MabeSenior VP, UNC-GAMy role during Fall 2009 required travel to UNC-GA to participate in system-wide Chancellor meetings, Provost Meetings, Faculty Assembly Meetings, Board of Governor meetings, Academic Affair Department Meetings, and other meetings as required (including a 2-day meeting with Frank Mayandas of the Sloan Foundation). I have been actively involved in leading research for the Graduation Efficiency Index ,a Production Frontier Model for UNC, and an Academic Program Review Model to assist in Program Mix Policy Decisions. Further information about the research conducted has been documented in the Working Papers section.

date/time interval

  • January 2009 - February 2009