Douglas A. Shackelford ’80, who is Meade H. Willis Distinguished Professor of taxation and associate dean of the MBA@UNC program, will be the next dean of Kenan-Flagler Business School. Chancellor Carol L. Folt and Executive Vice Chancellor… read more
Joel Curran ’86, a senior executive in one of the world’s largest public relations agencies, has been named UNC’s first vice chancellor for communications and public affairs. Curran is a 27-year veteran of the public relations industry… read more
A new policy that sharply reduces the length of time Carolina undergraduates can drop courses has ignited a campuswide outcry, prompting students and administrators to join forces in an unusually vocal pushback. The UNC System Board of Governors… read more
More than 600 of students flocked to the Student Union on the rainy Sunday following University Day 2013 to indulge in carnival-style food and shake hands with newly installed Chancellor Carol Folt. The event was organized by… read more
‘She’s going to be connected with us’ Hundreds of students flocked to the Student Union on a rainy Sunday to indulge in carnival-style food and shake hands with newly installed Chancellor Carol Folt. The festival also featured… read more
Alumni from opposite ends of North Carolina have been turning out at events hosted by the GAA to welcome UNC’s new chancellor, Carol Folt, to their hometowns. They also have been welcoming Folt, who arrived on campus July 1, to Carolina’s… read more
Karol Kain Gray is leaving Chapel Hill after 20 months as UNC’s vice chancellor for finance and administration. Gray, who spent 33 years in financial, organizational and management work at Stony Brook University in New York before coming to… read more
Gender-neutral housing at Carolina — first denied by then-Chancellor Holden Thorp ’86 and then supported by UNC trustees nine months later — has been struck from housing options on UNC System campuses by its Board of Governors. BOG Chair… read more
W. Lowry Caudill ’79 of Durham has been elected chair of the UNC Board of Trustees. Alston Gardner ’77 of Chapel Hill was elected vice chair, and Sallie Shuping-Russell ’77 of Chapel Hill is the board’s new secretary. All were elected on… read more
The University celebrated its 220th birthday on Oct. 12 with the installation of Carol Folt as its 11th chancellor. As it has done during previous chancellor installation ceremonies, the GAA organized an Alumni Processional on Polk Place on… read more