June 19, 2020
Peter Hans ’91, for the past two years the president of the 58-campus North Carolina Community College System, was elected the next president of the UNC System on Friday. A three-term veteran of the Board...
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The new vice chancellor for student affairs comes to Carolina from Eastern Washington University, where she was dean of students and associate vice president for student life for seven years. Amy Johnson had been named...
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The 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...
Read MoreW. Lowry Caudill ’79 of Durham has been elected chair of the UNC Board of Trustees.
Alston Gardner ’77 of Chapel Hill was elected vice chair, and Sallie Shuping-Russell ’77 of Chapel Hill is the board’s new secretary. All were elected on Thursday; none of the three is new to the board.
Caudill is co-founder of Magellan Laboratories Inc., and Carolina’s analytic chemistry building bears his name. Gardner is a venture partner in Fulcrum Equity Partners. Shuping-Russell is managing director of the investment firm BlackRock.
Five new trustees have joined the 13-member board: Jefferson W. Brown ’81 of Charlotte, Haywood D. Cochrane Jr. ’70 of Elon, Charles G. Duckett ’82 of Winston-Salem, Kelly Matthews Hopkins ’95 of Charlotte and Dwight D. Stone ’73 of Greensboro.
A sixth new board member is senior Christy Lambden of Somerset, England, who was sworn in May 23 to fill the ex officio seat held by Carolina’s student body president.