George Vanderbeck Taylor

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1. May 5, 1967 History professor George V. Taylor wins the Salgo teaching award At the same faculty meeting, Chancellor Sitterson presented Prof. George V. Taylor of the History Department the $1,500 Salgo Award for distinguished teaching of undergraduates, especially juniors and seniors. New York businessman Nicolas Salgo gave the award each year at six institutions. People: George Vanderbeck Taylor, J. Carlyle Sitterson Place: UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, May 6, 1967, p. 1
2. February 5, 1969 UNC faculty publicly debate dropping ROTC An open faculty discussion of removing ROTC was followed by a student-faculty advisory committee on academic credit for ROTC courses under historian George V. Taylor, which proposed a Curriculum in Peace, War, and Defense to take in naval and aerospace science while keeping ROTC as an option. The Daily Tar Heel reported that Arts and Sciences Dean R. H. Dawson set up the committee and that it first met on April 23, 1969. People: George Vanderbeck Taylor Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Also named: R. H. DawsonSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Navy Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) Naval Armory at UNC-Chapel Hill, National Register nomination (OR1541), p. 39 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, April 24, 1969, p. 1
3. March 6, 1970 UNC's Faculty Council establishes a Curriculum in Peace, War and Defense with ROTC tied to it After long debate the Faculty Council adopted the Taylor committee's recommendation to offer courses on war, militarism and defense aimed at an eventual major, and to keep the Navy and Air Force ROTC programs in affiliation with the new curriculum, adding "peace" to its name on an opponent's amendment. Academic credit for ROTC courses was left for a special meeting the next week. People: George Vanderbeck Taylor Place: UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, March 7, 1970, p. 1
4. March 23, 1973 The Faculty Council puts off its new limit on pass-fail courses after student protest The Faculty Council had voted on February 16 to limit students to four hours of pass-fail courses a semester; after Student Body President Ford Runge presented a student government survey of about 800 students, it postponed the limit for a year so that rising seniors could plan under the old rules. It refused to drop the limit outright, as the Campus Governing Council had asked. People: George Vanderbeck Taylor Place: Hamilton Hall, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Ford RungeSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, March 26, 1973, p. 1
5. October 19, 1973 The Faculty Council approves majors in Peace, War and Defense, Urban Studies, Linguistics and Portuguese The UNC Faculty Council approved four new curricula as majors, Peace, War and Defense, Urban Studies, Linguistics and Portuguese, sending them on to the University president and the Board of Governors. At the same meeting it unanimously set a limit of seven pass-fail hours a semester for students entering in fall 1974, replacing the four-hour limit adopted in February, after a student government survey of more than 2,100 students. People: George Vanderbeck Taylor, N. Ferebee Taylor Place: University, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 22, 1973, p. 1
6. March 1974 History students petition after the department declines to rehire instructor Jerry Cashion After the History Department voted not to fill the vacant assistant professorship in North Carolina history, left by the retired Hugh T. Lefler, with instructor Jerry C. Cashion and told him on March 8 his contract would not be renewed, petitions calling for his rehiring circulated through his classes. Lefler called him the best man he knew to teach North Carolina history, and Dean James Gaskin said he had not been fired, only not renewed. People: Hugh Talmage Lefler, George Vanderbeck Taylor Place: Department of History, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Jerry C. Cashion, James R. Gaskin, James GaskinSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, April 2, 1974, p. 1
7. October 17, 1975 The UNC Faculty Council sets up a committee to study grading The Faculty Council voted to form an ad hoc committee of administrators and faculty, with three non-voting students, to study the grading system and whether grades were inflated and to report by March 1976; a motion to give the students votes lost by about four to one. The committee was to weigh a plan to make A's rare and History professor James R. Leutze's plan for plus and minus grades. People: George Vanderbeck Taylor Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Also named: James R. LeutzeSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 20, 1975, p. 1
8. November 21, 1975 The UNC Faculty Council bans smoking in all classrooms The Faculty Council overwhelmingly approved an unconditional ban on smoking in University classrooms, rejecting a class-by-class option, after students had voted four to one for a ban in an October 15 referendum. Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor had said he would treat the faculty's decision as final, and faculty members were to enforce it. People: George Vanderbeck Taylor, N. Ferebee Taylor Place: Hamilton Hall, University, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, November 24, 1975, p. 1
9. December 1975 The UNC faculty elects E. Maynard Adams chairperson of the faculty The general faculty elected E. Maynard Adams, Kenan Professor of Philosophy, to a three-year term as chairperson of the faculty, succeeding history professor George V. Taylor. Adams told the Daily Tar Heel he thought a faculty union at UNC unlikely. People: E. M (Elie Maynard) Adams, George Vanderbeck Taylor Place: University, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, January 9, 1976, p. 1
10. by January 1980 Chancellor Taylor names a faculty committee to rehear the Stone tenure case At the trustees' request, Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor named seven faculty members, chaired by history professor George V. Taylor, to rehear Dr. Sonja Haynes Stone's tenure case. Stone's lawyer and BSM chairperson William Bynum objected that the committee had no one from Afro-American Studies. People: N. Ferebee Taylor, George Vanderbeck Taylor, Sonja Haynes Stone Place: University, Chapel Hill · Also named: William BynumBlack Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), January 29, 1980, p. 1