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UNC-Chapel Hill provost defends withholding county health department pandemic recommendations I The Progressive Pulse THE PROGRESSIVE PULSE . . EDUCATION, UNC-Chapel Hill provost defends withholding county health department pandemic recommendations Joe Killian ❑ 6 days ago ❑ Leave a comment ❑ In COVID-19, Education, Higher Ed, News This week UNC-Chapel Hill Provost Bob Blouin defended withholding the Orange County Health Department directorOs recommendation that the school move completely online for the Fall semester and cut on-campus housing to a bare minimum. BlouinOs explanation came during a Faculty Executive Committee meeting Monday afternoon. The health department letter, which many faculty members first learned about through media reports, led to a tense faculty meeting last week at which Blouin and Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz faced strong criticism. Many faculty members, who also heard about this summerOs cluster of infections among student athletes on campus through media reports, called the continued lack of transparency from school administrators disappointing. Dr. Mimi Chapman, chair of the schoolOs faculty, called the failure to disclose the health directorOs recommendation Oa serious breach of trust.6 On Monday Blouin returned to the letter, explaining that he and Guskiewicz did not believe that a memo from the countyOs health departmentOs http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2020/08/11/unc-chapel-hill-provost-defends-withholding-county-health-department-pandemic-recommendations/[8/17/20,3:00:47 PM]