The University and a top administrator each received high honors this week from the Deshpande Foundation. read more
Bill McDiarmid ’69, who has led the School of Education for seven years, plans to step down as dean on Jan. 1 and return to teaching as an Alumni Distinguished Professor of education. read more
Martin H. Brinkley ’92 (JD), who has been in private practice for 22 years, has been named dean of UNC’s School of Law, succeeding another alumnus, Jack Boger ’74 (JD), who plans to return to the school’s faculty after serving as dean for… read more
The 13-member UNC Board of Trustees will have five new members in July. read more
The NCAA has charged the University with lack of institutional control in its alleged failure to monitor its former department of African-American studies and its academic support center for athletes and asserts that UNC failed to rein in both when… read more
William L. Saunders’ name is coming off the building on Polk Place where it has been in place for nearly a century. Replacing it will be a name that UNC’s trustees hope will be a unifying one: Carolina Hall. read more
What alumni since the 1960s have known as University Square in downtown Chapel Hill is undergoing a rebirth as Carolina Square, and on Wednesday the University and the town detailed a key component in the new development: An arts-oriented facility,… read more
Nearly a year after receiving a verbal notice that the NCAA was reopening its 2011 examination of academic irregularities and their relationship to athletics, University officials announced Friday that they had received the NCAA’s written notice… read more
By any measure, Valerie Ashby ’88 (’94 PhD) has been considered a star of Carolina’s faculty with top-level administration potential. Now, Ashby will pursue just that — at Duke. read more
Dr. Dan A. Myers ’71 (’75 MD) of Kinston has been installed as chair and Teresa Holland Williams ’77 of Huntersville is chair-elect. read more