8.28.14 | Academics and Athletics, Students
On the same day the news media reported that UNC was investigating a hazing incident during preseason football practice, Coach Larry Fedora suspended four defensive backfield players from the first game of the season for violating unspecified team…
The University’s comprehensive revised policy on sexual violence takes effect today. Representing 16 months of work of a 22-member task force, which included students, faculty, staff and a community member, the new policy also covers… read more
Norman Ornstein, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, will speak about the nation’s dysfunctional political system — and how to fix it — in an Oct. 2 speech at UNC. Ornstein’s topic for the annual Thomas Willis… read more
Multiple news sources have reported that UNC is investigating a hazing incident during preseason football practice involving a freshman nonscholarship player. Sources told the website Yahoo Sports that Jackson Boyer, listed in the media guide as… read more
To help the campus community remain safe, both on and off campus, Carolina is providing an app that turns cellphones into personal safety devices. The Rave Guardian Campus Safety App, a joint initiative between Student Affairs and the Department of… read more
Students arrived this fall to an assignment they might not have expected but are required to complete: A course on understanding and prevention of sexual harassment and sexual assault. The online training — which also is expected to be… read more
Licensing technologies created at Carolina generated $7.93 million in income for the University in fiscal 2014, more than double the highest amount of royalty income Carolina has received in a single year. The amount comes from licensing revenues… read more
The University has backed off a plan to charge students, staff and visitors to park on campus after 5 p.m. The trustees voted last November to require those who wanted to park in campus lots in the evenings Monday through Thursday to buy permits,… read more
31,331 applied for admission 8,917, or 28.5 percent, were admitted 3,988, or 44.8 percent, are expected to enroll 57.8 percent female, 42.2 percent male 17.9 percent of those enrolling are… read more
Carolina is marking the centenary of World War I in 2014-15 with a yearlong, interdisciplinary “conversation” among faculty, students and the community, examining the war’s legacy and impact. Events kick off this month with a multimedia… read more