Carolina is fifth among the nation’s public universities in The Princeton Review’s 2021 list of the “Best Value Colleges.” read more
Fortune magazine has ranked Kenan-Flagler Business School’s online MBA program first in a new ranking announced along with the launch of the new Fortune Education hub. read more
Nine people will receive honorary degrees from the University during Commencement celebrations in May — four chosen in 2021 and five from 2020, when spring graduation ceremonies were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. read more
Pulitzer Prize-winner and MacArthur Fellowship “genius grant” recipient Nikole Hannah-Jones ’03 (MA) will join UNC’s Hussman School of Journalism and Media in July as the Knight Chair in race and investigative journalism. read more
The UNC System Board of Governors has elected Robert “Rob” Bryan III ’93 of Charlotte, Perrin Jones ’94 of Greenville, Malcolm Turner ’93 of Boston and Ramsey White ’01 of Washington, D.C., to Carolina’s Board of Trustees. read more
The University has reappointed Vice Chancellor for Research Terry Magnuson for another five-year term. read more
University Libraries has launched the UNC Story Archive as a way to gather and preserve authentic voices from the Carolina community. read more
Danny Green ’09, who played in more basketball wins than any Tar Heel, is making a $1 million gift to the University to endow a scholarship in the basketball program. read more
Alison Friedman, an internationally recognized performing arts producer, is Carolina’s new executive and artistic director for Carolina Performing Arts. read more
With some 2,500 on-campus students vaccinated against the coronavirus by mid-April, the University is moving toward something close to a pre-pandemic normal by this fall. read more