The University has tapped an acting administrator to be its next vice chancellor for information technology and chief information officer. Chris Kielt became interim vice chancellor in February after Larry Conrad left UNC to become chief… read more
James W. Dean Jr., a longtime faculty member and dean of the Kenan-Flagler Business School, has been appointed UNC’s next executive vice chancellor and provost. The Board of Trustees on Thursday approved a joint recommendation for Dean from… read more
Remarks delivered by Chancellor Holden Thorp ’86 on April 5, 2013 Thank you for inviting me to deliver the annual Frank Porter Graham Lecture on Excellence. It is an honor to be Argonaut Number 1664 and to join so many who have done so much for… read more
(Editor’s Note: The GAA’s Distinguished Service Medal citations, such as this one, are read to the audience at the Annual Alumni Luncheon and then presented as a keepsake to the recipients.) At an Association of American Universities… read more
Carol Folt said she’d only whizzed by the Old Well in a car and was anxious to slow down, get out and take a drink. A TV cameraman, of course, said he’d be only too happy to meet her there for a photo op. But Friday was not a day for Folt… read more
The Republican majority in both houses of the N.C. General Assembly soon will be reflected in the makeup of the UNC System Board of Governors. The BOG now has 19 Republicans, 14 Democrats and two unaffiliated members; after new members take… read more
Holden Thorp ’86, who’s been in South Building for six years — counting one as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences — talked with the Carolina Alumni Review’s senior associate editor, David Brown ’75, about his decision to leave… read more
Holden Thorp ’86, who in September told faculty and students that he was eager to get back into the UNC chemistry classroom after he decided to resign as chancellor, is being named provost at Washington University in St. Louis… read more
Larry Conrad, Carolina’s vice chancellor for information technology and chief information officer for the past five years, is leaving in February to take the same position at California-Berkeley. Conrad has led Carolina’s multifaceted… read more
A “reconstituted” search committee has been announced by Chancellor Holden Thorp ’86 to help select the University’s next executive vice chancellor and provost. Some members of the original committee subsequently were named to the committee… read more