UNC’s chancellor, provost and admissions director stood before a Faculty Council meeting in mid-January and took turns breaking apart the research that academic adviser Mary Willingham had used to assert that many Carolina athletes were… read more
The chair of the chemistry department and a Nobel Prize-winning genetics researcher at UNC were honored Friday with the GAA’s Faculty Service Award. The GAA Board of Directors presented the awards to chemistry professor Valerie Ashby ’88… read more
Chancellor Carol Folt emailed the campus community on Thursday following near-daily national media reports related to the long-running academic scandal that spun off the NCAA’s investigation into UNC’s football program. Folt’s message noted… read more
Carol Folt is the third of Carolina’s 11 chancellors in the past 68 years not to be a North Carolinian, a UNC graduate or both. (The other two were Paul Sharp, who served in 1964-66 and James Moeser, who served from 2000 to 2008.) Just as I… read more
The New York Times rang in 2014 with a front page story headlined, “A’s for Athletes, but Charges of Fraud at North Carolina.” Businessweek followed on Jan. 6 with “Scandal Bowl: Why Tar Heel Fraud Might Be Just the… read more
P.J. Hairston, who led the Tar Heels in scoring last season and spent this season sidelined, will not return to Carolina’s basketball team. Athletics Director Bubba Cunningham said Friday in a release: “Unfortunately, P.J. made a number of… read more
Carolina ranks as the No. 1 value in American public higher education for the 13th consecutive time, according to Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine. Since 1998, Kiplinger’s has periodically ranked public universities based on how… read more
Carmichael Auditorium served the men’s basketball team for 20 years. The Dean E. Smith Center is now 27 and has some acknowledged shortcomings, such as a single concourse and no private suites, so naturally renovation-or-replacement talk comes up… read more
Bill Guthridge struggles to put his feelings into words. Every week, he sees his longtime friend and former boss in the office, as he has since he joined the coaching staff of the Carolina basketball team in 1967. He and former head coach… read more
Julius Nyang’oro, one of the focal points of an academic scandal that spun off the NCAA’s investigation into UNC’s football program, was indicted by a grand jury Monday on a felony charge of obtaining property by false pretenses —… read more