NCA&T and UNCG submitted UNC Policy compliant Joint NC
AT/UNCG Requests to Establish Masters ( dated 01.29.09) and Ph.D. (Dated
12.15.08) interdisciplinary Nanoscience degrees consistent JSNN
Management Agreement (dated March 3, 2008) called for by UNC Regulations
for Academic Program Planning and Evaluation for Interdisciplinary
degrees- a formal agreement to offer a program of study required by UNC
policy for interdisciplinary degrees, Regulations for Academic Program
Planning and Evaluation [400.1.1[R] ]. The Erskine Bowles - UNC-General
Administration (UNC-GA) referencing a document titled Joint Program
Reporting Requirements dated 12/1/08 informed NCA&T and the UNCG the
original Memorandum Agreement between the two institutions…is contrary
to methods now recommended by General Administration. As such, the
Memorandum from March 3, 2008 needs to be revised, updated, and
re-approved, signed off on among others by Dr. Harold Martin, Sr. – then
UNC GA VP for Academic Affairs and now Chancellor at NCA&T- , tabling
without consideration by Board of Governors NCAT/UNCG Request’s to
Establish Joint Masters and Ph.D. Nanoscience degrees.
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Notwithstanding the dictates of UNC Policy Regulations
for Academic Program Planning and Evaluation for Interdisciplinary
degrees involving two or more campuses being joint degrees. The Erskine
Bowles-UNC-GA managed revised, updated, and re-approved JSNN Management
Agreement (April 24, 2009) excluded HBU NCA&T from offering Nanoscience
degrees with an organization requirement Nanoscience degrees be awarded
by UNCG and Nanoengineering degrees be awarded by NCA&T , implemented in
UNC BOG authorization stand alone Nanoscience degrees to UNCG.
Excluding HMI NC A&T from offering
Nanoscience degrees which established UNC Policy says should be joint
degrees, UNC BOG
discriminated, denied due process, equal protection to the university,
depriving it of enrollment growth funding, degree credit, and benefit of
prior appropriations for Nanoscience faculty while facilitating cross
town HWI Liberal Arts UNCG use HBI NC A&T’s curriculum, faculty, and
research, to establish competitive
Nanoscience program. How can HBI NC A&T build a distinct competitive
Nanoengineering degree program facilitating HWI UNCG access to its
School of engineering, faculty, courses, and research. |
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