UNC’s trustees have approved tuition increases of $1,630 for out-of-state undergraduates and graduate students and $509 for resident graduate students for 2013-14. The increases require the approval of the UNC System Board of Governors, which… read more
The UNC Board of Trustees has honored seven recipients — five of them the wives of former chancellors — with the William Richardson Davie Award, the board’s highest honor. The recipients are: Barbara Byrd Fordham ’49 of Chapel… read more
The search committee seeking a successor for Chancellor Holden Thorp ’86 is distributing an online survey to alumni, students, faculty, staff, parents, friends and community members through various outlets, including those used by the GAA and… read more
UNC has released about 2,500 pages of documents related to the football program investigation that began more than two years ago — bringing the University into what it termed full compliance with a state Superior Court order and settlement… read more
The UNC Symphony Orchestra has taken first place in the American Prize competition for recordings of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances in a performance in April 2011. The 100-piece UNC orchestra won in the college/university… read more
The campus’s advisory task force on tuition and fees has recommended tuition increases for 2013-14 for out-of-state undergraduates and all graduate students. In-state undergraduates were spared, but they face a $600 increase already approved by… read more
Carrboro police say hazing is “not the primary focus, and there is no evidence at this time to suggest that hazing was a factor” in the death of a UNC student from a fall over the weekend. A statement released Tuesday by the Carrboro Police… read more
It’s her passion for crafting the present for posterity that drove senior Waverly Lynch to become the Yackety Yack’s editor-in-chief in 2011. Lynch rose to the position in an unusual way: The yearbook’s board had asked the previous… read more
As of mid-October, 10 fraternities had been accused of hazing pledges this fall — the most reported cases since 2005. Aaron Bachenheimer, director of the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life and Community Involvement, said that of those… read more
UNC is complying fully with a Superior Court judge’s order and the terms of a settlement agreement reached with N.C. media organizations in a lawsuit about public records and the joint NCAA investigation into the University’s football… read more