University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Assistant to the Chancellor.

John P. Evans was Assistant to Chancellor Nelson F. Taylor from 1974 to 1977 and was, thus, both preceded and followed in this position by Claiborne Jones.

While retaining his position as Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Bentley Renwick served as Special Assistant to the Chancellor from mid-1977 to mid-1978. In this capacity, he visited eleven other universities and developed a proposal for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's recruitment and retention of minority students.

Claiborne Stribling Jones was named Assistant to Chancellor Sitterson on 1 July 1966. He served in this capacity until November 1973, when he became the University's Vice Chancellor for Business and Finance. He served in that position until August 1977, when he was named Executive Assistant, this time to Chancellor Taylor. As Executive Assistant, he continued to work in the areas of finance to which he had devoted his attention as Vice Chancellor for Business and Finance. He retired from all University service on 30 June 1984.

While retaining his position as Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Bentley Renwick also served as Special Assistant to Chancellor Taylor from mid-1977 to mid-1978. In this capacity, he visited eleven other universities in order to develop new proposals for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's recruitment and retention of minority students.

Susan H. Ehringhaus was appointed assistant to Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor in 1974. Her primary responsibility was to provide legal counsel to the chancellor on university policies; faculty, student, and employee grievances; and matters pertaining to academic tenure appeals. She also served as the university's Title IX compliance officer and as university liaison with the North Carolina Attorney General's office in court cases to which the university was a party.

From 1984 to 1993, David Dill served as the Assistant to the Chancellor for Planning. In this position, he coordinated the decennial accreditation report on the research mission of the University. Dill also developed and implemented the unversity-wide planning and priority-setting process. He was a member of the policy team that guided the creation of a comprehensive University land-use plan. In conjunction with the University's bicentennial campaign, Dill also designed the process for the articulation of academic priorities and determination of financial goals.

Dill's other activities while in this position included producing a new structure for faculty involvement in planning and budgeting as a member of a Faculty Council committee and chairing a committee on the University's historical records. As a memeber of the University Facilities Planning Committee, Dill coordinated academic program development and enrollment planning. He also served as a member of the Chancellor's Administrative Council.

Douglass Hunt served as Special Assistant to the Chancellor from July 1980 until his retirement in 1996. He then continued to work part-time as Advisor to the Chancellor for Governmental Affairs until 2002. His chief responsibility was to act as the university's government relations officer and to keep track of federal legislation and programs affecting higher education. This included participation in the Association of American Universities' Council on Federal Relations, as well as significant travel to Washington, D.C., and to other national association meetings. Hunt also corresponded with members of the North Carolina congressional delegation, asking for support on bills affecting the university, including tax, research, and indirect cost legislation.

He also handled numerous other responsibilities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He chaired the Residence Status Committee and was the officer designated to assure the university's compliance with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and with the Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) of 1974. In 1986 Chancellor Fordham relieved Hunt of the latter three responsibilities and asked him to serve on behalf of the Office of Chancellor as liaison officer in planning the University Bicentennial Observance. In this new role, Hunt worked closely with the two university-wide committees that the chancellor had appointed to plan the observance and the associated capital campaign: the Bicentennial Observance Planning Committee (Cole Committee) and the Bicentennial Case Statement Committee (Williamson-Mayer Committee).

Another of Hunt's responsibilities was oversight of the Massey-Weatherspoon Fund and the university programs that it supported, which included the C. Knox Massey Distinguished Service Awards, Carolina Seminars, and several endowed professorships and scholarships. Established in 1980 by alumnus C. Knox Massey, the awards recognized university employees for unusual, meritorious or superior contribution to the university. In 1984 Massey joined his son, C. Knox Massey, Jr., and daughter, Kay Massey Weatherspoon, in establishing the Massey Weatherspoon Fund. The fund made possible the creation, in 1991, of Carolina Seminars, a program dedicated to bringing scholars together for collaboration.

The chancellors whom Hunt served relied on his knowledge of the university's history and on his abilities in research and writing. Hunt drafted numerous speeches, citations, and letters for the chancellors. Hunt had attended the University of North Carolina in the 1940s, and he remained active with the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies and the Order of the Golden Fleece.