On the occasion of becoming the UNC System’s fourth president, Erskine Bowles ’67 recounted in an interview for the January/February 2006 Carolina Alumni Review that his father, Hargrove “Skipper” Bowles ’41, in accepting a major award,… read more
Career prospects looked pretty bleak for Dan Pollitt in 1957. He had landed a job teaching law at the University of Arkansas not two years earlier, then came the order that to continue on the payroll he would need to sign a disclaimer swearing he… read more
The GAA’s alumni relations programs and the Carolina Alumni Review have been recognized with three awards in the 2009-10 Southeastern District competition of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, and two GAA… read more
As part of its project to digitize the special collections of its library, UNC has made the earliest copies of the GAA’s alumni magazine, founded in 1912 as the Alumni Review, available online. All issues of the Alumni Review… read more
The University has been named to the 2009 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll by the Corporation for National and Community Service. UNC is one of only six colleges and universities in the country to receive the award, the… read more
Several hundred people from across campus gathered just south of the Campus Y on Thursday afternoon to remember Eve Carson ’08, Carolina’s former student body president who was killed two years ago this week. The event marked the dedication… read more
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr., who led efforts to quell the 2008 financial crisis, will visit Carolina on March 22. On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System, the title of… read more
After 24 straight hours on their feet for the kids, the UNC Dance Marathon announced Saturday evening that it raised $421,851.32 to benefit the children and families of N.C. Children’s Hospital. The total — representative of the student group’s… read more
Ralph Frasier ’59, one of the first black undergraduates at Carolina, is returning to campus for the first time in 52 years. Frasier and two other black students challenged North Carolina’s “separate but equal” admissions policy in the 1950s and… read more
Tuition increases for undergraduates and graduate students, approved by UNC’s trustees last fall, have been approved by the UNC System Board of Governors. The BOG voted Friday to increase tuition 5.2 percent for all undergraduate students and 3.7… read more