Motion:	2006-Sept -#01
Topic:	Honoring Betsy E. Brown
Proposed by:	Brenda Killingsworth, Chair and Jimmy Reeves, Secretary
Disposition:	Adopted 9/06

WHEREAS Dr. Betsy Brown has served with distinction for five years as Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs; and

WHEREAS during her tenure Dr. Brown drew on wisdom derived from a variety of experiences including her youth in Rowan County, her expertise as an English professor, and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Winthrop University; and

WHEREAS Dr. Brown provided exceptional leadership in a variety of arenas of crucial importance to faculty, including advising the Faculty Assembly; and

WHEREAS Dr. Brown designed and executed pan-University leadership development programs that built bridges among faculty leaders across the University system, and served as the Executive Director of the UNC Leadership Institute; and

WHEREAS Dr. Brown brought needed attention to cutting edge questions including those relating to faculty careers and life stages, the circumstances of fixed-term faculty, work-life balance, pre-tenure faculty, senior faculty, and faculty approaching retirement; and

WHEREAS Dr. Brown has generously served as an important mentor and role model for the faculty members whose paths she has crossed over many years;

WHEREAS Dr. Brown provided critical support to the University Library Advisory Council, and the Advisory Board of the Teaching and learning with Technology Collaborative; and

WHEREAS, Dr. Brown coordinated international activities at the University system level, including work on issues of foreign language access and placement, and

WHEREAS, Dr. Brown will soon be pursuing new opportunities at North Carolina State University where she will continue to address issues of crucial significance to faculty members and public higher education; and

WHEREAS, Dr. Brown will be sorely missed by the Faculty Assembly and her many faculty admirers and friends;

The Faculty Assembly commends and thanks Dr. Betsy Brown for her important contributions to the quality of public higher in North Carolina, and her visionary efforts on behalf of University faculty in general and the Faculty Assembly in particular.

The resolution was presented to Dr. Brown at a reception/dinner on January 25, 2007 hosted by Dr. Judith Wegner at the George Watts Hills Alumni Center, Peebles Room