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
Chancellor Holden Thorp ’86 has named Julia Sprunt Grumbles ’75, former corporate vice president of Turner Broadcasting in Atlanta, as UNC’s interim vice chancellor for advancement. “Julia Sprunt Grumbles is a devoted, engaged alumna who… read more
The University’s trustees took an unprecedented step Wednesday afternoon to ask Chancellor Holden Thorp ’86 to stay on the job. Thorp announced on Monday his intention to resign next June, saying the move was in UNC’s best interest. In… read more
Students were talking about the resignation of Chancellor Holden Thorp ’86 on Tuesday. Here’s what some of them said to the Review’s editorial intern, Emily Palmer. Shelby Sugierski, a junior public policy and Romance languages… read more