How much learning can Carolina professors and students pack into just three weeks? That’s what UNC’s proposed Maymester program aims to find out. In May 2007, UNC hopes to pilot a new academic mini-term that will give students an alternative to… read more
UNC’s summer reading program book selection committee has made The Namesake, by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, its choice for incoming undergraduates to read and discuss. read more
Carolina has launched an interdisciplinary, academic minor in the study of Christianity and culture, thought to be the nation’s first at a public university. read more
Less than a third of the freshman class participated in discussions of this year’s summer reading assignment. read more
Chapel Hill and London are now a little closer together, thanks to a project spearheaded by UNC’s Honors Program. read more
The College of Arts and Sciences has decided to continue to pursue a gift for a curriculum enhancement in Western civilization — a scaled-back version of the original. read more
Carolina will hold classes on Labor Day this year – for what appears will be the first time in more than three decades. read more
An often-controversial process that started in fall 2003, when Carolina approached a major donor about a curriculum enhancement in Western civilizations, climaxed in early April with the donor dissatisfied. The Pope family of Raleigh is not likely… read more
Eastern North Carolina native Timothy B. Tyson’s Blood Done Sign My Name is the University’s choice for incoming undergraduates to read and discuss in the 2005 Summer Reading Program. read more
North Carolina’s Hispanic population grew faster than any other state’s between 1990 and 2000. Now the transformation that has crept to the very walls of UNC also is taking hold inside the University with the inauguration last fall of the first… read more