While Kevin Guskiewicz is tasked with leading UNC – Chapel Hill as the interim chancellor, the university has elevated another to fill his former role as dean of the College of Arts & Sciences.

Terry Rhodes has served as the associate dean for fine arts and humanities in the college since 2012, and she now will serve as interim dean in place of Guskiewicz. The university announced the move in a message to the campus community on Tuesday.

Rhodes will lead the largest academic unit on the campus in this interim basis.

Rhodes has been leading UNC’s Humanities for the Public Good initiative, which was funded by a $1.5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in 2017.

“Throughout her time here, Terry has sought to strengthen scholarship and increase diversity and inclusion in the College,” Tuesday’s message read. “She has worked closely with the College’s director of faculty diversity initiatives and the departmental diversity liaisons on matters of faculty recruitment and graduate student admissions. She received the University Diversity Award in 2011.”

Guskiewicz was chosen by interim UNC System president Dr. Bill Roper to lead the Chapel Hill campus on an interim basis after the resignation of former chancellor Carol Folt. Folt announced in mid-January that she intended to resign at the end of the academic semester.

The UNC System Board of Governors accelerated that timeline as Folt also announced that she had ordered the removal of the remaining base of the Confederate monument known as Silent Sam from the campus after protesters toppled the statue last August.

Folt’s last day was January 31, and Guskiewicz was appointed the next week.

Roper himself is serving in an interim role after the departure of Margaret Spellings from her previous role as system president.

Five members of the system Board of Governors are working with the campus to develop a plan for the future of Silent Sam, a process that was put in place in December when the monument’s pedestal remained on the campus. Board chairman Harry Smith has said that work will continue toward a mid-March deadline for a new proposal.

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