Just as University administrators were trying to catch their breath after the news that state budget cuts would hit Chapel Hill $20 million harder than they’d expected, an angel appeared — an angel bearing $20 million. The UNC Health Care… read more
For many Carolina alumni and Tar Heel fans, Woody Durham ’63 has been a part of our lives longer than we’ve been married. For others, Woody was the “Voice of the Tar Heels” before they were born. (This is certainly the case for Debbie and me — we… read more
The University will suffer an 18 percent cut in state appropriations for fiscal year 2011-12 — a loss of $108 million. It is the highest cut, by $20 million, among the UNC System’s 17 campuses. The system Board of Governors in its June… read more
For 43 years, UNC physicians have flown out of Horace Williams Airport to take their specialties where they were needed in more remote corners of North Carolina. UNC Medical Air Operations formally went to work in 1972 and now has six planes… read more
Michael McAdoo sat out the entire 2010 football season as part of the NCAA investigation into the UNC program. He was “permanently ineligible” to continue playing by the NCAA for academic misconduct; the University appealed the decision, but the… read more
John Clark, general manager of WRAL.com, the web presence of the Raleigh TV station, is the new executive director of the Reese Felts Digital News Project, at reesenews.org, a student-led experimental venture in digital newsgathering, dissemination… read more
Carolina, a perennial top 10 finisher in the annual measure of postseason success in men’s and women’s varsity sports in the NCAA’s Division I, placed sixth in 2010-11. It is the Tar Heels’ 16th top 10 finish in the competition’s 18… read more
The search committee for a new dean for the School of Journalism and Mass Communication has sent its review of the candidates to the chancellor, and an interim dean has been appointed. Senior Associate Dean Dulcie Straughan ’87 (PhD) will serve… read more
Jones Angell ’01, who has been host and color analyst for the Tar Heel Sports Network the past six years, will call radio play-by-play for Carolina football and men’s basketball broadcasts beginning in the 2011-12 season. Angell takes… read more
The news that emerged in July 2010 — that the NCAA was investigating two football players for possible improper contacts with sports agents — and then in late August — that UNC had learned of possible academic misconduct within the program —… read more