1.) What issues, concerns, and areas do you hope to address through
your service on faculty government? 

I believe the most important issues facing us as a university are the
defense of the intellectual core of the university against political
and fiscal threats and the maintenance of academic excellence
independent of short-term expedience.

2.) To what extent to you believe faculty interests differ from those
of administrators?

While I think administrators are typically honest and
well-intentioned, I think they face pressures faculty do not
face. Specifically, I think faculty are in the single best position to
promote an idea of the university that is, first and foremost,
intellectual in its orientation. The goal of faculty governance ought
to be to put forward that position consistently and strongly.


3.) How should we maintain academic integrity in the face of
increasing financial pressures?

Faculty should be the final and ultimate arbiters of the intellectual
value of curricular and research value, and we should be prepared to
turn away money that requires that we compromise those values.


4.) What are your views on increasing inequalities within the faculty
based on, for example, tenure-track vs. fixed term appointments and
differing salary levels? 

While I am not convinced that this is the biggest issue facing UNC, I
do think we should be concerned about it and pay attention to making
sure that faculty independence and security are preserved.


5.) Would you prefer to see a faculty governance system that is
focused on prominent University issues (e.g., academic freedom and
educational policy) or one that is more focused on faculty's specific
needs (e.g., benefits and salary)? Or, alternatively, how would you
seek to balance the two?

I strongly prefer that we concentrate on prominent issues and leave
faculty's specific needs to administration.

6.) Are you a member of the American Association of University
  Professors (AAUP)?

Yes, proudly.