7.27.12 | Academics and Athletics, Faculty
A new report of a special subcommittee of UNC’s Faculty Executive Committee makes it clear there are deep concerns in the faculty about how thoroughly athletes — especially those in the revenue-producing sports of basketball and football —…
Following two years of dramatic rise in the number of faculty members lost due to failed attempts to keep them out of the hands of other schools, Carolina had a big improvement last year in keeping professors at home. In 2009-10, in the early… read more
Carolina received $287.4 million in gifts from private donors in fiscal 2012. The total marked the University’s second-best year in history and topped the previous fiscal year’s total of $277 million — then the second-highest total — by 4… read more
UNC Hospitals is among four in the nation that have been recognized for leadership and innovation in quality improvement and safety. It was one of two finalists for the American Hospital Association-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize in a review by a… read more
UNC’s Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise has appointed Joseph M. DeSimone as its new director. DeSimone is the Chancellor’s Eminent Professor of chemistry at UNC and William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of chemical… read more
The University paid outside lawyers $467,406 during a 17-month period of the NCAA investigation into the football program. At the start of the probe in June 2010, UNC augmented the work of its own legal staff with Rick Evrard, an attorney with… read more
When his law school study group classmate William C. Friday ’48 (JD) called, William B. Aycock ’37 (MA, ’48 JD) was on leave teaching law in Virginia. Friday knew that his first selection for UNC’s chancellor was a pivotal decision. He was… read more
A new study by researchers at UNC’s School of Medicine found that 31 percent of children identified as at risk for autism spectrum disorders at 12 months received a confirmed diagnosis of the disorders by age 3 years. In addition, 85 percent of… read more
A grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is expected to expand digital humanities in a transformative way at Carolina, including the hiring of new faculty and the support of graduate students in this emerging field. The $1.39 million grant… read more
Andy Griffith ’49, one of North Carolina’s most famous sons, has died at his home in Manteo. Griffith was best known for his portrayal of a down-home country sheriff with an unmistakable Southern drawl on The Andy… read more