29,507 applied for admission 7,855, or 26.6 percent, were admitted 3,928, or 50 percent, are expected to enroll 56.8 percent female, 41.4 percent male 17.7 percent of those enrolling are the first in… read more
Former Carolina football star Julius Peppers ’02 has donated $250,000 to the GAA’s Light on the Hill Society Scholarship fund that supports African-American students. Peppers already had donated $100,000 to the fund in 2009. The… read more
UNC’s Renaissance Computing Institute has been tapped as the technical lead in a $4.5 million collaborative water project by the National Science Foundation. The project, which involves a team that spans eight U.S. universities, aims to develop a… read more
The unauthorized publication of the academic transcript of Julius Peppers ’02 on a UNC website resulted from a mistake by an internal computing staff person, according to the vice chancellor for Information Technology Services. Larry Conrad said… read more
On Thursday, the University announced that it is bringing in a former governor, a national management consulting firm and the president of a prestigious national higher education association to review various aspects of issues related to academic… read more
The University is bringing in a former governor, a national management consulting firm and the president of a prestigious national higher education association to help address different aspects of issues related to an internal investigation that… read more
A subpoena that led to the downfall of an American president will have a new home at UNC, thanks to a donation by Raleigh lawyer Rufus Edmisten ’63. Edmisten, deputy chief counsel to the Senate Watergate Committee chaired by Sen. Sam Ervin… read more
What appears to be the UNC academic record of football star Julius Peppers ’02 surfaced on a UNC website late last week and was publicized by The News & Observer of Raleigh as part of its coverage of the football and academic scandals… read more
A state Superior Court judge has ruled that former football coach Butch Davis must make public the records of business calls made on his personal cell phone. Judge Howard Manning Jr. ’65, who previously had said only lawyers representing a… read more
The University has filed an amicus “friend of the court” brief in the U.S. Supreme Court case of Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, a case involving the consideration of race in college admissions. UNC is one of the first of about 10… read more