8.22.05 | Admissions
18,702 students applied; 6,726, or 35.9 percent, were accepted; 3,720, or 55.3 percent, are expected to enroll.
Renovations to Cobb Residence Hall won’t be complete until the first week of October, meaning 389 students have been temporarily displaced – way displaced. The students, 114 freshmen, 26 transfers and 246 returnees, are living on Baity Hill, a new… read more
For the fifth consecutive year, Carolina ranks as the nation’s fifth-best public university, according to U.S. News & World Report. The magazine’s annual rankings also placed UNC as a national leader in student accessibility. read more
The University has received the N.C. General Assembly’s blessing to close Horace Williams Airport, which would remove what has been an obstacle to the planned research campus known as Carolina North. read more
If you’re going abroad, take your camera, and send your best stuff back to Chapel Hill. read more
The College of Arts and Sciences has decided to continue to pursue a gift for a curriculum enhancement in Western civilization — a scaled-back version of the original. read more
The chair of the UNC System Board of Governors has sought to dispel any public notion that the search for a successor to UNC System President Molly Broad has zeroed in on former White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles ’67. Brad Wilson, who also… read more
After extensive deliberations and politicking, the N.C. General Assembly has declined to give UNC and N.C. State University the authority to set their own tuition. read more
The University has reeled in a big catch for its faculty. Hodding Carter III, the Southern journalist who was the public face of the Iran hostage crisis for the Carter administration, will teach freshmen and graduate students and lend his stature to… read more
Harvey Elliott Beech ’52 (LLB), who became a legal and philanthropic legend and a staunch civil rights defender in more than 35 years of practicing law in Kinston and who kept his ties to Carolina strong — particularly with the GAA’s annual Black… read more