"TransparUNCy's mission is simple: inform students "who controls your education, how they do it and what they don't want you to know," Toby Posel, a senior history major at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said on a Signal call Feb. 12. Posel describes TransparUNCy as a "political education project" aimed at undergraduates. But faculty members say it's had a far greater impact: The four-year-old student-run activist group has become one of the public flagship's most effective watchdogs."
"In December, the university began to close its six area studies centers with no warning; UNC biology professor Mark Peifer said faculty learned of the news in the student newspaper, The Daily Tarheel. A week before that, university system president Peter Hans announced that the system would classify syllabi as public documents and require faculty to post them publicly online."
TransparUNCy is a student-run political education project that aims to inform undergraduates about who controls their education, how decisions are made, and what information is withheld. The group has publicized consequential policy changes at the University of North Carolina, including a quietly approved policy allowing administrators to secretly record faculty and the abrupt closure of six area studies centers. System leadership also moved to classify syllabi as public documents and require online posting, raising concerns about faculty doxing. TransparUNCy uses social media and organizing to mobilize students through rallies, petitions, and protests and is praised by some faculty as an effective watchdog.
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