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
The UNC Board of Trustees has honored seven recipients — five of them the wives of former chancellors — with the William Richardson Davie Award, the board’s highest honor. The recipients are: Barbara Byrd Fordham ’49 of Chapel… read more
The search committee seeking a successor for Chancellor Holden Thorp ’86 is distributing an online survey to alumni, students, faculty, staff, parents, friends and community members through various outlets, including those used by the GAA and… read more
The search committee seeking a successor for Chancellor Holden Thorp ’86 will hold four separate forums on Nov. 7 and 8 for people to share opinions about what they hope to see in the next chancellor. The forums are designed to provide an… read more
Thomas Ross ’75 (JD) said his was a life “as extraordinary as any our state has ever seen.” Beverly Perdue said, “He believed that for all of us — not some of us — education was that silver bullet that could change… read more
Wade Hargrove ’62, chair of the UNC Board of Trustees, will chair the search committee to recommend a successor to Chancellor Holden Thorp ’86. Hargrove, who was re-elected to a second term as chair in July, said the committee represents… read more
The UNC System Board of Governors has freed its schools to make their own decisions about how much of the revenue from tuition increases they will apply to need-based financial aid — calming fears at Carolina and elsewhere that they would have to… read more
Chancellor Holden Thorp ’86, who grew up working in the community theater his parents ran, made a dramatic entrance onstage outside South Building at the end of an hourlong rally Friday and gave what appeared to be the definitive word on his… read more