Flowers are left as a sign of respect at the Unsung Founders Memorial, the class of 2002 gift dedicated to the people, enslaved and free, who labored to build the foundations of the University. (Photo by Keith King ’82)
4.9.19 | Campus Safety, Structures, UNC’s History
UNC police have arrested two people believed to have vandalized a campus monument and an outdoor art installation.
UNC police have issued arrest warrants for two people believed to have vandalized a campus monument and an outdoor art installation. read more
Three of the Old Well’s columns need restoration and repair. The white pine columns will be replaced with more durable red mahogany. read more
As part of a promise from South Building to the students to publicly confront the University’s racial history, a seven-panel exhibit opened in the Carolina Hall front lobby in mid-November. read more
Overcrowded and on thin rations, Carolina ventured into its southern forest, and way up into the air with high-rise dorms, to transform the culture of campus residential living. read more
North Carolina voters overwhelmingly approved a bond referendum that will bring $2 billion to the state’s public college campuses — including most of the funding for a new medical school building at Carolina. read more
Gov. Pat McCrory toured UNC’s School of Medicine’s Berryhill Hall with Chancellor Carol L. Folt, assessing the dilapidated facility and the goals of a $2 billion bond referendum. “This is really critical,” Folt said. “This medical school… read more
On March 15, N.C. voters will decide whether to approve a $2 billion bond issue. The proposed $1 billion for public universities includes $68 million for a new medical education building to replace Berryhill Hall. read more
William L. Saunders’ name is coming off the building on Polk Place where it has been in place for nearly a century. Replacing it will be a name that UNC’s trustees hope will be a unifying one: Carolina Hall. read more
These are excerpts from some of the speakers at the March 25 meeting of the UNC Board of Trustees’ University Affairs Committee about whether the name of William Saunders should be removed from Saunders Hall. For two hours, the committee… read more