Share Jobs for our students I was really impressed to walk into our atrium last week and see table after table of employers—about 40 of them—and hundreds of students for out annual Career and Internship Fair. Thanks to all the companies who participated! They had real jobs available. This is exciting news that either confirms...
Share Economic disconnects It is the week of Thanksgiving, and since the football game frenzy ended Saturday, it seems like an awful lot of people have left town. Days like this, clear, sunny, Carolina blue, make me very glad to live in Chapel Hill. I had to go to the Apple store over the weekend...
Our SPH Feels Their Energy Each fall, when the new group of students arrives, energetic, enthusiastic and optimistic, it’s a major adrenaline boost for everyone here, me included. Last week was non-stop orientations. Our all-School orientation, which I wrote about last week, was the best one I’ve seen in my time here. Felicia Mebane and...
Now an “old” dean According to Harrison Spencer’s (President, Association Schools of Public Health) President’s Bulletin, 40% of all SPH deans have served five years or less. I just began my second term and am now one of the older deans in terms of number of years I have been dean—not the longest or oldest,...
I finished Rupert Nacoste’s book, Making Gumbo in the University. On the one hand, UNC-Chapel Hill is far ahead of the situation he described at the university he was helping to diversify. For example, we track diversity statistics (at least, for those characteristics that can be measured), and we conduct regular climate surveys, something he...
I just finished reading Half the Sky. Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn tell powerful stories of individual women in the developing world. Read an excerpt. These are stories of the women who survived (not always) and triumphed (sometimes) in a world that too often undervalues them. In writing about one woman, Kristof and WuDunn wrote,...
Heading toward Health Reform? It is beginning to look like health reform could happen, as committees get closer to agreeing on a package and as compromises get made. On October 16, 2009, ASPH and 43 other public health organizations sent letters of support for the prevention and public health workforce provisions in the House Tri-Committee...