{"id":11911,"date":"2015-11-06T10:48:46","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T15:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/college.unc.edu\/?p=11911"},"modified":"2024-07-02T16:08:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T16:08:28","slug":"celebrating-40-years-the-pardue-fellowship-in-the-institute-for-the-arts-and-humanities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=11911","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating 40 years: the Pardue Fellowship in the Institute for the Arts and Humanities"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Becky and David Pardue<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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How does a university support its accomplished faculty?<\/p>\n

\u201cThe gift that we may appreciate the most is the gift of time,\u201d says UNC music professor and jazz studies director Jim Ketch.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s certainly one of the aims of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities <\/a>through its Faculty Fellows Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In 1992, Ketch became the first faculty fellow at the IAH, thanks to an endowment by David Pardue \u201969 and his wife Becky. Back then, the Institute was called the Program for the Arts and the Humanities, located at the former West House between Hanes and Swain Halls.<\/p>\n

The IAH was established in 1987 by Ruel W. Tyson Jr., professor of religious studies, and Gillian T. Cell, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, to nurture liberal arts learning and support faculty excellence. As a home for interdisciplinary conversation and collaboration, it serves to recruit, develop, and retain a world-class faculty for UNC.<\/p>\n

The Pardues, who have a long history of supporting UNC, were also instrumental in helping to build Hyde Hall, where the IAH currently resides.<\/p>\n

David and Becky lived in Burlington in the 1980s, so they remained close to UNC. \u201cMy business partner and I gave a gift of some real estate as part of the Bicentennial Campaign [in 1989],\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted to channel our gift into something that was important to the Arts and Sciences Foundation and in particular to College of Arts and Sciences Dean Gill Cell,\u201d said David. \u201cIt was one of the dean\u2019s priorities to get the Institute going. So I would give a lot of credit to Dean Cell for that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thus, the Pardue Fellowship was established. David Pardue went on to serve on the UNC Board of Trustees from 1995 to 2003. He and Becky also served on the IAH Advisory Board during the planning of Hyde Hall, which opened its doors in 2002.<\/p>\n

Ketch remembers that finding out he was the first Pardue Fellow was \u201clike Christmas.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"James<\/a>
James Ketch, professor of music and director of jazz studies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For Ketch, getting the time to focus on the language of jazz meant he was able to study in a way he couldn\u2019t while maintaining a busy teaching schedule. But he immediately saw how the fellowship could serve his students, and not just himself.<\/p>\n

The Pardue Fellowship helped Ketch teach his jazz students \u201cto become native speakers of this language,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd it is a new language. You don\u2019t acquire that overnight.\u201d<\/p>\n

IAH fellowships not only give faculty the gift of time, but the gift of community as well. Each week during the fellowship semester, they discuss their work over a meal with professors from a variety of departments.<\/p>\n

Current Pardue Fellow, Stephanie Elizondo Griest, has found it \u201cbeautiful to be a part of\u201d this community. Griest, the Margaret R. Shuping Fellow of creative writing in the department of English and comparative literature, is completing a book about communities that straddle international borders, particularly the Tejanos in Texas\/Mexico and the Mohawk tribes in New York\/Canada.<\/p>\n

\"Stephanie<\/a>
Stephanie Elizondo Griest, Margaret R. Shuping Fellow of creative writing, is the current Pardue Fellow in the IAH<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cUsually when we [writers] finish a work we have other writers to go over it,\u201d said Griest. \u201cI think it\u2019s even more valuable to give it to a mathematician to look at afterwards.\u201d These colleagues, all from outside her field, are \u201cintelligent, open, eager and compassionate, bringing all these ideas they have gathered over a lifetime of a career.\u201d<\/p>\n

Becky Pardue said she has been inspired by this interdisciplinary setting and the impact of that experience for the UNC community.<\/p>\n

\u201cProfessors from different departments would have to discuss the projects on which they were working, which would lead to a more common dialogue among the professors because they would not be able to use the rarified dialogue that they use within their departments. And that ultimately would seep down from them to the kids. And the kids would be able to understand them more easily.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTo us that was a beginning because at that time our son had just graduated [from UNC],\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

David said, \u201cIt helps, number one, make people like Jim [Ketch] a better teacher and, number two, helps retain them at Carolina. That\u2019s a real goal. We\u2019ve just been really pleased with the recipients of the fellowship.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ketch went on to become an Academic Leadership Program Fellow in 2002 and in 2014 he received UNC\u2019s Student Undergraduate Teaching Award. He has served in several leadership roles on campus, including chair of the department of music. Off campus he serves as music director of the North Carolina Jazz Repertory Orchestra and associate director of Swing Central Jazz for the Savannah Music Festival.<\/p>\n

Becky said endowing the fellowship at the IAH has been a rewarding experience for her and her husband.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like, as much as we were delighted to direct our money that way, watching the good that it has done the different professors who have received fellowships\u2014David and I have gotten back a thousand fold.\u201d<\/p>\n

To read more about the Pardues and their support of the College of Arts and Sciences, go to:\u00a0https:\/\/college.unc.edu\/2011\/12\/21\/family-affair-pardues-support-new-theatre-professorship-fellowship\/<\/a><\/p>\n

By Melissa Clay<\/em><\/p>\n

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