By Steve Gilliam, University Relations
Contact: (336) 334-5371
Posted 4-20-09
GREENSBORO, NC – Dr. Linda P. Brady will be formally installed as chancellor of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, May 5, in Aycock Auditorium.
Brady will be installed as the 10th chief executive in the institution’s 117-year history. UNC President Erskine B. Bowles will preside at the ceremony, and the installation will conclude with Brady’s installation address. The ceremony will be preceded by an academic processional, to begin at approximately 9:30 a.m. in front of the Alumni House on College Avenue. The public is invited.
Free parking will be available at the Greensboro Coliseum, and the shuttle service will run from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Guests who are not marching in the processional should arrive at the parking lot off Ellington Street no later than 9:30 a.m. For more details, visit the Installation Web Page at chancellorinstallation.uncg.edu.
A special pre-installation event for students will be held Monday, May 4, from noon-1:30 p.m. Students can join Chancellor Brady for a cake cutting and steel drum music at the Fountain, located outside the Dining Hall.
Unique Elements of the Occasion
UNCG Trustees Chair Stephen C. Hassenfelt said those attending can watch history in the making. “Because I chaired the Search Committee that brought Chancellor Brady to UNCG, I am well aware of her capabilities as an administrator, a scholar, and a friend,” Hassenfelt said. “What she has already accomplished in her few months in Greensboro is admirable. She will make UNCG a stronger university, even in troubling economic times. Please plan to attend the installation and meet Dr. Brady. Her intentions to engage UNCG with the community will have a positive impact on all of us.”
The installation ceremony and procession will feature several unique elements. One example is the distribution of seed packets of daisies – UNCG’s school flower – as mementoes of the occasion. UNCG’s Student Government Association is funding the gift in honor of Chancellor Brady.
Another is use of the McIver and UNCG tartans and the Jamestown Pipes and Drums, which recognize the Scottish heritage that founding president Charles Duncan McIver and Brady share. There will also be joint participation in the procession by the Faculty Senate and Staff Senate – a first for UNCG.
Brady will take her oath using UNCG’s Geneva Bible which was acquired for Jackson Library’s collections by Charles M. Adams, who was the library’s director from 1945-1969. It was printed in London by Robert Barker in 1616, the final time he published this version of the Bible. A Geneva Bible was the version of the Bible used by William Shakespeare, John Bunyan and John Milton, as well as the version brought by Captain John Smith and the Pilgrims on the Mayflower. It earned its name in England due to the exile of Protestants to Geneva, Switzerland, during the reign of Queen Mary (1553-1558).
Dignitaries on the Program
Participating dignitaries include North Carolina Secretary of Cultural Resources Linda A. Carlisle, Greensboro Mayor Yvonne Johnson, former N.C. State Supreme Court Chief Justice Burley B. Mitchell Jr., UNC Board of Governors Chair Hannah D. Gage and UNCG Board of Trustees Chair Stephen C. Hassenfelt.
Bowles will officiate and will be assisted by Mitchell. During the investiture, Brady will be accompanied by her husband, Gustav A. Heyer. In addition, she will be presented with the university symbols: the chain of office and the university mace, seal, flag and bell.
UNCG participants will include former chancellors Patricia A. Sullivan and William E. Moran, who will serve as honorary faculty marshals. Also taking part in the program will be Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Provost David H. Perrin, Faculty Senate Chair Rebecca G. Adams, Staff Senate Chair Scott L. Milman, Installation Committee Co-Chair Virginia B. Karb, Faculty Marshal Terence A. Nile, Student Government Association President Michael J. Tuso, and Alumni Association President M. Jeffrey Colbert. Music will be presented by the UNCG Trumpet Ensemble, the UNCG Wind Ensemble, the University Chorale and the University Chamber Singers from the UNCG School of Music.
Biographical Information
Brady was elected as UNCG’s chancellor on June 12 by the UNC Board of Governors and assumed the office on August 1. She succeeded Patricia A. Sullivan, who retired on July 31, after almost 14 years at UNCG’s helm. Brady is the second woman to hold the chancellor position at UNCG.
Brady came from the University of Oregon’s flagship campus at Eugene, where she was senior vice president and provost. A native of New York City and the first member of her family to attend college, Brady graduated from Douglass College, the women’s division of Rutgers University, in 1969 with a degree in political science. She received a master’s degree in the field from Rutgers in 1970 and a doctorate in political science from The Ohio State University in 1974. She began her academic career as an assistant professor of political science at Vanderbilt University in 1973 and joined the faculty of Goucher College three years later.
From 1978 to 1985, Brady held several positions in the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Defense. Among those roles, she served as a political analyst in the State Department’s Office of Disarmament and Arms Control and as special assistant for mutual and balanced force reductions in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. She later served as a senior fellow in international security and arms control at the Carter Center of Emory University (1986-87) and as a distinguished professor of national security at the U.S. Military Academy (1991-92).
From 1993 to 2001, Brady led the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she was also a professor of international affairs. She joined North Carolina State University in 2001 as dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and professor of political science, and over the next five years was credited with building the stature and visibility of the college, launching a number of new graduate degree programs, and significantly increasing external support for the humanities and social sciences at NC State. She left North Carolina in 2006 to become the chief academic and operating officer at the University of Oregon.
Brady has authored or co-edited three books and numerous book chapters and scholarly articles in the fields of American foreign policy, international negotiation and arms control. A past recipient of the Georgia Tech School of Social Sciences Teaching Award, she has earned the Superior Honor Award from the U.S. Department of State and is a two-time recipient of the Outstanding Civilian Service Medal from the Department of the Army. She was an American Council on Education Fellow in 1997-98, serving her fellowship year at the University of Iowa under the mentorship of President Mary Sue Coleman. She is married to Gustav A. Heyer, a retired Army officer. She has two adult stepsons and three grandchildren.
UNCG Presidents and Chancellors
Although she will be UNCG’s 10th chief executive, Brady will be the seventh to hold the title of chancellor. Charles Duncan McIver, the institution’s first president, served from 1891-1906. Dr. Julius I. Foust succeeded him and remained in the post until his retirement in 1934.
Dr. Walter Clinton Jackson served from 1934-1950, and was the first to hold the title of chancellor under the consolidated University of North Carolina (which also included N.C. State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). Other chancellors have been: Dr. Edward Kidder Graham, 1950-56; Dr. Gordon W. Blackwell, 1957-60; Dr. Otis A. Singletary, 1961-66; Dr. James S. Ferguson, 1967-79; Dr. William E. Moran, 1979-94; and Dr. Patricia A. Sullivan, 1995-2008.
In addition, UNCG has had the service of three acting chancellors. Dr. W.W. Pierson served as acting chancellor twice, 1956-57 and 1960-61. Dr. James Ferguson also served as acting chancellor twice, from 1964-66 and for several months in late 1966. Dr. Debra W. Stewart served as interim chancellor for four and one-half months in 1994.
