“It’s about the foundations of this faculty and the university,” said Sue Estroff, a former faculty chair and professor of social medicine. “My trust has been tested. Has yours? What are we going to do about that? I don’t want to work in a place where I don’t trust, admire and take the word of my leadership and my colleagues. … I feel betrayed by our leadership, our faculty leadership, people all around us that we invested with the presumptive dignity and integrity that’s on this campus.”
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The provost said it broke his heart to see a photo on Twitter of an empty wall, after an alumnus had removed a UNC diploma. “This just does not define this university, it just doesn’t,” he said, adding, “This is a time to come together.”
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“There’s something wrong with a faculty council which is incapable of confronting an administration,” said Hodding Carter III, a public policy professor. “Because you are not doing your duty to the university by essentially being rubber stamps for whatever is put before you by the administration.”
He said it was impossible for coaches and others in authority to have not known what was going on with the fake classes. “Please folks, don’t just try to sweep this and talk about all the good things we’re doing,” he said. “Try to undo the last of the bad things that were done.”
