DAN SEARS ’ 74
Jan Boxill
Senior Lecturer
in Philosophy Department
Elected Faculty Chair
Jan Boxill, a senior lecturer in the phi- losophy department, has been elected to a three-year term as chair of the faculty.
Boxill came to UNC in 1985. Her
specialty areas are social and political
philosophy and feminist theory. She has
served in a variety of administrative positions at UNC, many of them ethics- and
sports-related. She also has served as learning skills coordinator, freshman academic
success coordinator and tutor coordina-tor/supervisor for the Student Athlete
Development Center.
Boxill is the author of an anthology on
sports ethics and is at work on Front Porch
Ethics, another sports-related book.
She began her college teaching career at
UCLA shortly after graduating from that
school in 1967. She also holds master’s and
doctoral degrees in philosophy from UCLA.
She has taught at California State-Los Angeles; the universities of Kentucky, South
Florida and Tampa; and Elon University.
Among her honors are the Mary Turner
Lane Award from the Association of
Women Faculty and Professionals, the
Women’s Advocacy Award from the Carolina Women’s Center and a Tanner Faculty
Award for Excellence in Undergraduate
Teaching. She was the first faculty recipient
of the University Award for the Advancement of Women in 2006.
Boxill, whose term began July 1, succeeded McKay Coble ’ 79, chair of the
dramatic art department. A near-record
1,320 faculty members, 37 percent of those
eligible, voted in the elections.
■ Multiple players committed academic
fraud, received preferential treatment and
accepted impermissible benefits; and
■ UNC failed to monitor the football program and the conduct of Chris Hawkins
’05, a former player who allegedly helped
connect players with agents, and did not
monitor players’ social media activity.
The names of a number of players were
redacted by UNC in releasing the report
on June 21. The next day, UNC told The
News & Observer that it also had redacted
from the report the names of two individuals, identified as athletic department
employees. Coach Butch Davis reportedly
was not one of the two employees cited.
Those redactions appear with allegations
that UNC failed to monitor Hawkins,
failed to monitor players’ social media use
and failed to follow
up in 2009 and
2010 on information about possible
improper benefits.
UNC was given
90 days to respond
to the notice; the
NCAA then would
be expected to rule
on whether violations occurred and
determine any
penalties. The
NCAA has asked
that five UNC representatives attend a
hearing on Oct. 28:
Chancellor Holden Thorp ’ 86;Athletics
Director Dick Baddour ’ 66; Davis; law Professor Lissa Broome, UNC’s faculty athletics
representative; and Amy Herman ’01 (MA),
UNC’s director of compliance.
“I deeply regret that Carolina is in this
position,” Thorp said. “We made mistakes,
and we have to face that. When the investi-
gation started a year ago, we pledged to
cooperate fully with the NCAA, to go
where the facts took us and to face the
issues head on. Our level of cooperation is
evident in the allegations, some of which
arise from facts that we self-reported to the
NCAA. We will emerge with a stronger
athletics program, and we will restore con-
Baddour said, “We are disappointed to be
in this position because it goes against every-
thing we believe in, but we are thankful to
get to the next step in the process.” He
added: “We will gather the information the
NCAA has requested and prepare to address
the notice with the NCAA in the fall.
‘I deeply regret that Carolina
is in this position. We made mistakes,
and we have to face that. When the
investigation started a year ago,
we pledged to cooperate fully
with the NCAA, to go where the
facts took us and to face the issues
Chancellor Holden Thorp ’ 86
