The Gillings School's Dr. Beth Moracco, elected UNC’s Chair of the Faculty, advocates for inclusive and equitable faculty governance.
Beth Moracco, PhD, professor in the Department of Health Behavior and associate director of the UNC Injury Prevention Research Center, was elected UNC’s Chair of the Faculty in the 2023 election. She succeeded Mimi Chapman and began her term on July 1.
Moracco has been a faculty member at the Gillings School since 2008, where she has held several important leadership positions and been acknowledged as an outstanding teacher, mentor, practitioner and researcher. She is also an alumna of the Gillings School, where she earned both her Master of Public Health and doctoral degrees. Her research and practice are centered on violence prevention with a focus on gender-based violence in both local and global settings.
She was honored with the University’s Edward Kidder Graham Faculty Service Award in 2021 in acknowledgment of her dedication to the reduction and prevention of domestic and other types of gender-based violence. Skilled in intervention development and evaluation, Moracco is an expert in community-based engagement, in which stakeholders are active participants in the design and evaluation of interventions that meet their community’s needs.
“As Chair, my priorities will be to protect and enhance our efforts toward building an inclusive, equitable environment for Carolina’s faculty, staff and students; safeguard the integrity of the role of faculty in decision-making; and advocate for full and timely information-sharing in matters that concern faculty,” Moracco said in her statement.
UNC’s chair of the faculty has the following duties, in addition to those that may be determined by the chancellor or Faculty Council:
- To serve as chair pro tempore of the Faculty Council and of the General Faculty,
- To make an annual report to the Faculty Council on the state of the faculty, and
- To represent the chancellor in all academic matters whenever requested by the chancellor.
If you wish to contact Professor Moracco regarding faculty governance-related matters, please email facultychair@unc.edu or call the Office of Faculty Governance at 919-962-2146.
