UNC’s academic advising program has taken the first steps toward improving an advising system that has brought complaints from students and raised concerns from members of the Board of Trustees. Carolyn Cannon, associate dean for academic… read more
Risky mortgage products, not risky borrowers, are the root cause of the mortgage default crisis, according to findings from a new study of default rates among low-income and minority home buyers conducted by UNC’s Center for Community… read more
Students, faculty and staff are invited to share ideas and perspectives about how to strengthen the University at a campus forum Thursday, Oct. 30. The forum, free and open to anyone, will be held at 2 p.m. in Gerrard Hall. Attendees will join… read more
A $1.25 million, five-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education will expand a new fast-track teacher program at Carolina to include mathematics and geological sciences. North Carolina is experiencing a serious teacher shortage. The state’s… read more
Poet, novelist and nonfiction writer Robert Morgan ’65, author of Gap Creek and Boone: A Biography, will give a free public talk on campus Oct. 2. Morgan – a prolific writer who is Kappa Alpha Professor of English at Cornell… read more
The global significance of 1968 and 1969 will be a topic of reflection during the 2008-09 academic year at the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History. Fall programs will begin Sept. 11 with “The Time is Nigh: Organize, Mobilize,… read more
Noted journalist and policy expert Hodding Carter III, a professor of leadership and public policy at UNC, will deliver the second annual Thomas Willis Lambeth Lecture in Public Policy on Sept. 16. Carter will speak at 5:30 p.m. in Gerrard Hall. read more
Beginning Sept. 2, UNC’s Department of Public Safety will issue citations to anyone caught violating the University’s no-smoking policy. This announcement came in an e-mail to the campus community from Chancellor Holden Thorp ’86, who said that… read more
David Brooks of The New York Times and E.J. Dionne Jr. of The Washington Post will discuss the 2008 presidential campaign at 7 p.m. Sept. 9 at UNC. Brooks and Dionne come to UNC as the Frey Foundation Distinguished Visiting… read more
Orange County District Attorney Jim Woodall ’82 has asked for and received permission to seek the death penalty for one of the men accused in the murder of Eve Carson ’08. According to The News & Observer of Raleigh, Demario Atwater… read more