UNCG faculty and staff are invited to participate in a voluntary COVID-19 Testing Clinic on Thursday, September 24 from 9:00 a.m.- 3:00p.m. at the UC Maple room.

Please click here to register. Please know space is limited to approximately 350 appointments; more testing opportunities will be scheduled in the future.
The clinic is for individuals who:

1. do not have COVID-19 symptoms (are asymptomatic); and
2. have not been in close contact recently with someone who has tested positive.

If you have symptoms, please stay home and contact your health care provider to determine if you need to be tested.
Some important details:

• Participation is completely voluntary.
• The testing is conducted by an outside vendor, StarMed.
• A sample will be collected from the nose (nasal swab, not the deeper nasopharyngeal swab) and tested to see if the virus is present (i.e. if you have COVID-19).
• You will receive your results directly from StarMed.
• You will be given the opportunity to sign a waiver that allows StarMed to report their results directly to the UNCG Case Management Team.
• By law, StarMed must report all results to the public health department. Public Health, in turn, will inform us if an employee tests positive.
• Information about what to do if you test positive will be provided onsite. Additional information is also available on our UNCG COVID-19 website. General information about COVID-19 testing is also available here.
• StarMed will file with employees’ insurance for reimbursement. Regardless of whether insurance pays or not, there are no out of pocket expenses for employees.

A few important pieces of information:

• The clinic is taking place today from 9 am – 3 pm in the EUC Maple Room.
• The clinic is for individuals who 1) do not have COVID-19 symptoms (are asymptomatic); and 2) have not been in close contact recently with someone who has tested positive.
• Participation is voluntary.
• The testing is conducted by an outside vendor, Starmed.
• A sample will be collected from the nose and tested to see if the virus is present.
• Employees will receive their results directly.
• Employees will be given the opportunity to sign a waiver that allows Starmed to report their results directly to the UNCG Case Management Team.
• By law, Starmed must report all results to the public health department. Public Health, in turn, will inform us if an employee tests positive.

Please identify employees who you believe would benefit most from having this opportunity (and who want to participate) and ask them to do the following:

• Text COVID to 704-850-6996.
• They will receive a link to Starmed’s online registration form.
• Click the link and complete the form prior to arriving for testing, if possible.
• Starmed will file with employees’ insurance for reimbursement.
• Regardless of whether insurance pays or not, there are no out of pocket expenses for employees.

To reiterate, if an employee is feeling ill, they should stay home and contact their health care provider to determine if they need to be tested.

The UNCG Chapter of the American Association of University Professors condemns, in the strongest terms possible, a proposed policy revision to be presented to the Board of Governors of the University of North Carolina this Thursday, September 17, 2020. This proposal, if approved, will gut a principle that has guided the North Carolina consolidated university system since it was first launched in 1931: shared governance, the idea that when local campuses seek input from stakeholders, listen to that input, and use it in important decision making processes, this sharing of power strengthens everyone’s confidence in the process and the institution.

The proposal has two parts. First, in any search for a new chancellor, the UNC System President will have the power to insert two candidates. And, second, the UNC President, regardless of the search committee’s deliberations and recommendations, can require that those two candidates “be part of the slate referred by the [local campus] board of trustees ” to the President for appointment as chancellor, should he choose.

These proposed changes will undermine the integrity of these important searches. First, the changes will discourage high quality candidates of national and international standing from entering a search when the results can be easily overridden. Second, citizens of integrity will not serve the many hours required by these important searches if their efforts can be ignored. Finally, the substantial costs paid by the taxpayers of North Carolina to hire executive recruiting firms will be for naught if the President of the UNC system can determine the result of any chancellor search.

The UNCG Faculty Senate has voted unanimously in opposition to this proposal, and the UNCG Chapter of AAUP joins our Senate in unanimous opposition to this proposal.

The UNCG Faculty Senate voted overwhelming in support of a resolution that:

• Maintains local control in the selection of our own leaders.
• Continues the highly treasured academic tradition of vetting its members through peer review and selection.
• Avoid the potential loss of the highest quality chancellor, faculty, and student candidates who will not want to work in such an environment.
• Avoid the loss of top faculty who will not want to work in academic environments where their chancellor is in effect a political appointee.

UNCG Faculty Sentate: Resolution 09082020

Fall Convocation, held virtually on September 9, 2020.

UNCG has an active chapter of The American Association of University Professors.
We give faculty an independent voice on our campus, particularly on issues of academic freedom and shared governance.

Our first UNCG AAUP regular chapter meeting is

Monday, September 14, 2020 from 3:00-4:30p.m.
Drop by and find out more about the group!

Join Zoom Meeting

Meeting ID: 795 052 6711
Passcode: aaup

FALL AAUP MEETINGS
Monday October 19 AAUP 2nd Meeting
Wednesday November 25 Fall Semester Ends
Monday December 14 AAUP 3rd meeting (optional-TBD)

SPRING AAUP MEETINGS
Monday January 11 Classes Begin for Spring
Monday February 1 AAUP 4th meeting
Monday March 22 AAUP 5th meeting
Thursday April 27 Reading Day
Monday May 10 AAUP Final meeting (optional-TBD)

Fall Convocation and General Faculty Meeting, 9/9/20 from 3-5 pm via Zoom only.

Zoom link: https://go.uncg.edu/fall-2020-convocation