2.27.15 | Carolina Alumni Awards
With four Grand Awards and three additional honors, the GAA and the Carolina Alumni Review are recognized for top programming and magazine journalism.
The proposed closing of UNC’s Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity by the UNC System Board of Governors – which drew one of the broadest and loudest protests from the Chapel Hill campus of any issue in years – became reality Friday as the board… read more
North Carolina resident tuition and required fees will rise to $8,334 per year, or 2.8 percent; out-of-state students will pay $33,416, up 0.7 percent. Also, tuition for all graduate students will go up $450. read more
Mary Willingham, whose claims that some athletes arrived at Carolina unprepared for academics helped focus investigations into the athletics-academics scandal, did not win her attempt to get her job back. She did receive an as-yet unspecified… read more
About 10,000 people came to the Smith Center on Feb. 22, and thousands more watched on TV and online, as Carolina said goodbye to Dean Smith in a UNC-sponsored tribute presided over by Chancellor Carol L. Folt. read more
Joseph Haj ’88 (MFA), producing artistic director of UNC’s PlayMakers Repertory Company, has been named the next artistic director of the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minn. read more
Clinics run by UNC dental students were operating on a limited basis on Thursday, Feb. 12. A lot of students needed to attend a funeral. read more
Carolina will celebrate the life of Dean Smith during a public memorial service at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 22, in the Smith Center. The public, fans and all who cared about the coach are invited to attend. read more
Dean Smith, North Carolina’s incomparable basketball coach for 36 years, who mastered the beautiful complexities of a simple game on the court and lived and taught his players the simple truths of a complex humanity away from it, died Saturday. He… read more