Jan. 14, 2021
Andrew Lakis, executive director of Teach For America for Eastern North Carolina, has been named executive director of the Robertson Scholars Leadership Program, the undergraduate merit scholarship program sponsored and administered by the Robertson Foundation...
Read MoreJan. 14, 2021
Christopher Bradford, co-founder of a pre-higher education institution in Johannesburg, will be the Morehead-Cain Foundation’s new president. Bradford, who will start work this summer, will be the foundation’s first new leader in 34 years. Bradford...
Read MoreJan. 12, 2021
Gary Bowen ’76 (MSW), dean of the School of Social Work since 2016, plans to return to his full-time faculty role on July 1. Bowen joined the UNC faculty in 1985. As dean, he led...
Read MoreThe three officers of the UNC System Board of Governors were re-elected to those posts by the board on Monday.
Randy Ramsey of Beaufort will have another two-year term as chair, Wendy Murphy of Wallace as vice chair and Pearl Burris-Floyd ’78 of Dallas as secretary. None of the positions was contested.
Ramsey and Murphy also are co-chairs of the search committee for a new president for the system, which is made up of 17 institutions. The committee is scheduled to continue to review candidates on Wednesday.