Project Team

Sarah Falls holds an MA in Art History from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and an MSLS from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has worked for a number of universities and organizations, such as the University of Richmond, Artstor, The New York School of Interior Design and the Ohio State University. Currently, she is the University Librarian at UNC School of the Arts. For the University Librarians Advisory Council (ULAC) for the UNC System, she is the liaison to the Educational Resources Affordability Committee, which promotes accessible and affordable access to textbooks for UNC students. Sarah is the current chair of the Triad Academic Libraries Association and the incoming chair of ULAC.

Michelle Solér is the research and development lead for competency-based education for the UNC System Office. Her work helps to clear the path for institutions across the University of North Carolina System's 17 campuses as faculty and staff consider, design, and implement innovative degree programs, certificates, and other credentials. Soler provides assessment strategies, business modeling assistance, communication and program development support, and curricular redesign strategies toward the successful launch and implementation of campus programs investigating student mastery of learning objectives at a personalized pace. She assists staff and faculty across the system in support of online and alternative learning pedagogies. Solér earned a BA in Journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an MBA from Wake Forest University School of Business, and the PhD in Education, Cultural Studies from the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Melody Rood is the Student Success Librarian at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. Prior to UNCG, she worked at Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte, NC. Melody serves as a liaison in the Research, Outreach, and Instruction Department at the Walter Clinton Jackson Library where she provides support for the International and Global Studies program as well as the Library and Information Science program. In addition, Melody is one of two librarians who oversees the library's Open Education Mini Grant and related OER initiatives. Her research interests include open education, open pedagogy, EDI efforts, and bridging the gaps between academia and community.

Jacqueline Solis is Director of Research and Instructional Services at the University Libraries and Adjunct Faculty at the School of Information and Library Science at UNC Chapel Hill. Prior to moving to UNC Chapel Hill, Jacqueline was Outreach Librarian and Hispanic-Serving Institutions Program Librarian at California State University Northridge. She has been involved in OER initiatives through the UNC University Library Advisory Council Educational Resources Affordability Committee and NC LIVE’s Open Education North Carolina program.

Jeanne Hoover is Head of Scholarly Communication at Academic Library Services at East Carolina University. She leads the Scholarly Communication team in supporting faculty and student scholarly communication needs on campus. In this role, she helps coordinate ECU’s mini-grant textbook program, provides workshops on scholarly communication topics, and manages the institutional repository, the ScholarShip. She has been involved with OER initiatives through the ULAC Educational Resources Affordability Committee and NC LIVE’s Open Education North Carolina program. Jeanne was a 2018-2019 SPARC Open Education Leadership Fellow.

Harvey Long is the Student Success Librarian at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, where he provides research assistance and works closely with academic support units to ensure all students' success. He is the library liaison to the Center for Academic Excellence (CAE), New Student Programs, and the University Writing Center. He earned the Master of Arts, Library and Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Bachelor of Arts in English at Winston-Salem State University.

Will Cross is the Director of the Copyright & Digital Scholarship Center in the NC State University Libraries, an instructor in the UNC SILS, and an OER Research Fellow. Trained as a lawyer and librarian, he guides policy, speaks, and writes on open culture and navigating legal uncertainty.

As a course designer and presenter for ACRL, SPARC, and the Open Textbook Network, Will has developed training materials and workshops across the US and for international audiences from Ontario to Abu Dhabi. His current research focuses on the relationship between copyright and open education. He serves as PI on two IMLS-funded projects: the Scholarly Communication Notebook (LG-36-19-0021-19) and the Library Copyright Institute (RE-87-18-0081-18).

Enoch Park is the Online Learning Specialist at UNC Charlotte and oversees the Quality Matters program on campus. As a leader in online learning, he works to assure a high-quality learning experience and to increase access to college education through the integration of emerging technologies and pedagogy. Enoch serves as the co-chair of the UNC System QM Council and the EDUCAUSE Ambassador to UNC Charlotte. As a teacher educator, he teaches Learning Design and Technology courses at UNC Charlotte. As a researcher in online learning, Enoch is currently conducting research at the Oregon State University e-Campus. An advocate of community engaged learning, he serves as a Board member of the North Carolina Service-Learning Coalition.