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Chair of UNC-CH faculty: "a serious breach of trust"campus not aware of Orange County health recommendation I The Progressive Pulse <br /> THE PROGRFESSIVE PULSE <br /> EDUCATION,HIGHER ED,NEWS,PUBLIC HEALTH <br /> Chair of UNC-CH faculty: "a serious breach of trust" campus not aware of <br /> Orange County health recommendation <br /> Joe Killian ❑ 20 hours ago ❑ Leave a comment ❑ In Education, Higher Ed. News, public health <br /> The chair of the UNC-Chapel Hill faculty sent an email to Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz and <br /> Provost Bob Blouin Wednesday expressing Odismay0 faculty were not made aware that the <br /> Orange County Health director last week recommended the school move to online-only <br /> instruction and restrict student housing due to mounting evidence of widening COVID-19 <br /> infection. <br /> OIt feels like a serious breach of trust to have kept such recommendations from the campus <br /> community of faculty, staff and students,0 wrote Dr. Mimi Chapman, chair of the faculty. <br /> In the email, whose subject line is ODismay,O Chapman goes on <br /> to say that she has personally changed her plans to hold an in- <br /> person orientation for doctoral students this week and that the <br /> class she planned to teach in person this semester will change to 4 <br /> remote. <br /> OI could not possibly do otherwise in the face of such a letter <br /> from our local health department,0 Chapman wrote. <br /> Chapman pointed to already rampant flouting of mask and <br /> distancing rules on campus, in student stores and at off campus <br /> gatherings. <br /> OThese look like off ramps to me,0 referring to the term UNC-Chapel Hill has used to indicate <br /> things that would lead them off of their Oroadmap to return0 and back to the online-only <br /> instruction of last semester. <br /> http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/...-recommendation/?fbclid=IwAR3_g5um-lYOaaewVNUmTXj3ylfPoSZke-08VcOgnABaraGZ-A1SH1kTDaA[8/6/20, 10:10:37 AM] <br />