Excellence Unveiled: Jed Atkins
The director and dean of the School of Civic Life and Leadership talks with WCHL about its mission, courses and the importance of fostering a free speech culture.
The director and dean of the School of Civic Life and Leadership talks with WCHL about its mission, courses and the importance of fostering a free speech culture.
The school, which is part of the College of Arts and Sciences, welcomes 11 new faculty members and two new adjunct associate professors.
New Tar Heels will move through issues, literally, in a half-hour program led by School of Civic Life and Leadership faculty.
The new leader of the School of Civic Life and Leadership talks about how to build a “free speech culture.”
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has named Jed Atkins, the E. Blake Byrne Associate Professor of Classical Studies at Duke University and director of Duke’s Civil Discourse Project, as the inaugural director and dean of the School of Civic Life and Leadership.
The College of Arts and Sciences’ School of Civic Life and Leadership has created a new minor in civic life and leadership with courses designed to provide students with interdisciplinary training in civics, the humanities and scientific literacy.
Nine faculty members will develop the School of Civic Life and Leadership’s vision and curriculum while leading the search for a new dean.
The Orville Gordon Browne (OGB) Foundation has made a $1 million gift to the UNC-Chapel Hill College of Arts and Sciences to establish an endowed term professorship in Carolina’s School of Civic Life and Leadership.