Frank Rich, op-ed columnist and former theater critic at The New York Times, will be on campus to discuss art, culture and politics on March 6 as a Frey Foundation Distinguished Visiting Professor in the College of Arts and… read more
Superior Court Judge Howard Manning Jr. ’65, whose most famous ruling – the Leandro public school funding case – secured for all North Carolina children an equal opportunity to receive a sound, basic education, will speak on Friday, Feb. 24 at… read more
Holocaust expert Deborah Lipstadt will headline the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies’ spring lecture series at UNC with a talk on April 10. read more
After a national competition in undergraduate education that drew more than 675 proposals, the Ford Foundation has selected UNC as one of 27 higher education institutions to receive $100,000 grants for projects that promote academic freedom and… read more
Joan Didion, author of the best-selling memoir The Year of Magical Thinking, will speak on campus on Feb. 28. The book recently won the 2005 National Book Award for nonfiction. read more
Bob Woodward, best-selling author and assistant managing editor of The Washington Post, will kick off the spring season of Kenan-Flagler Business School’s Dean’s Speaker Series on Jan. 17. read more
Hoping to spur discussions about free speech, filmmaker and UNC communication studies Professor Gorham Kindem will present a special screening of his award-winning new documentary Beyond the Wall at the Varsity Theater in Chapel Hill Sunday, Dec. 4… read more
Youth and human rights activist Malika Sanders will discuss “Principles of Social Justice for a New Generation” in a Nov. 8 lecture at UNC’s Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History. read more
A Southern Jewish perspective on religious and cultural changes in the South will be the topic of a Sept. 13 lecture at Carolina. 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