a 1969 strike of campus dining facility employees, which was led by a new African American student organization called the Black Student Movement and a general walkout of students following the murders of four Kent State University students in May 1970. Throughout Sitterson's career as an administrator at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he continued to teach courses in history. Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson was succeeded by Chancellor Ferebee Taylor on January 31, 1972. Sitterson also worked with a number of service organizations, specifically Research Triangle Institute and the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching (NCCAT), a group formed in 1984 with the goal of promoting professional development among teachers in the arts, sciences, and humanities. Sitterson served as NCCAT's first board chair. In 1987, the University opened Sitterson Hall, named for the former chancellor, which is currently the home of the UNC Department of Computer Science. References External links Office of Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Joseph Carlyle Sitterson Records, 1966-1972, in the University Archives, UNC-Chapel Hill. J. Carlyle Sitterson Papers, 1800-1995, in the Southern Historical Collection, UNC Oral History Interview with J. Carlyle Sitterson from Oral Histories of the American South Sitterson, J. Carlyle Sitterson, J. Carlyle Sitterson, J. Carlyle 20th-century American academics