Two high-profile UNC deans will be stepping down at the end of this school year.

Karen Gil, the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, says she will be returning to the classroom next year to teach psychology.

Gil has served as dean of the university’s largest college since 2009. She says it’s time for new leadership to help spearhead academic reform.

“There is much to do as we prepare to embark on the next capital campaign. Also, there is critical work ahead to build on the important reforms we have already put in place,” she wrote in an email to colleagues.

Jack Boger, Dean of the UNC Law School, will end his five-year term a year early. He says that will make it easier for his successor to implement curriculum reforms and handle the upcoming accreditation review by the American Bar Association.

Boger will continue to teach at the law school, where’s he’s been a member of the faculty since 1990.