6.29.10 | University Leadership, University News
The UNC System Board of Governors is seeking suggestions and nominations as it searches for a successor to Erskine Bowles ’67 as the next president of the UNC System. Bowles announced in February that he plans to retire. Bowles, who will turn 65…
The UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication finished first overall in the Intercollegiate Competition of the 50th anniversary of the Hearst Journalism Awards, often called the Pulitzers of college journalism. The first-place finish… read more
The co-founder of the Robertson Scholars program that pays for selected students to take classes at UNC and Duke died June 8 in New York. Josephine Tucker “Josie” Robertson was 67. She and her husband, Julian Hart Robertson Jr. ’55, donated… read more
The financially beleaguered Chapel Hill Museum is set to close its doors. Founded in 1996 and housed in the former public library building not far from the campus on Franklin Street, the museum has relied primarily on volunteers and never has had… read more
More than 3,200 historic maps of North Carolina are now available online as part of the digital North Carolina Maps project. Visitors to the site can see the results of a three-year collaborative project to identify and scan nearly every… read more
Barely six months ago, UNC was ahead of the curve on hiring and retaining faculty in an extremely difficult economic climate. While hiring had slowed dramatically at many schools, Carolina was hiring at about 80 percent of normal and was winning… read more
The Morehead-Cain Foundation is endowing a new merit scholarship at Carolina in honor of Eve Carson ’08. The Chapel Hill-based foundation has given $400,000 to UNC to establish the Eve Marie Carson Carolina Way Scholarship, which will cover… read more
Carolina threw a 90th birthday party on Tuesday for Bill Friday ’48 (LLB), and hundreds of happy friends of the emeritus president of the UNC System turned out. The event, held at the George Watts Hill Alumni Center, was a public event –… read more