A business school professor was startled to learn that the university had recorded his classes as part of a ‘review’ he didn’t know about. The university says it has no formal policy on filming classes. Professors are worried. Larry Chavis, who’s taught in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s business school for 18 years, received a letter April 22 from an associate dean revealing he was under review after the university “received some reports concerning class content and conduct within your class over the past few months.”That was concerning by itself, Chavis said, but there was something else in the letter that’s worrying other faculty members as well. The associate dean, Christian T. Lundblad, told Chavis that the review had begun prior to April 22—using a camera in Chavis’s classroom. “We recorded and reviewed several of your class sessions on April 8th, 10th, 15th and 17th using the existing Panopto camera in the classroom,” Lundblad wrote.
