The UNC System Board of Governors is seeking suggestions and nominations as it searches for a successor to Erskine Bowles ’67 as the next president of the UNC System. Bowles announced in February that he plans to retire. Bowles, who will turn 65… read more
Carolina threw a 90th birthday party on Tuesday for Bill Friday ’48 (LLB), and hundreds of happy friends of the emeritus president of the UNC System turned out. The event, held at the George Watts Hill Alumni Center, was a public event –… read more
Alumni, Friends Embrace Fayetteville’s Native Son A few hundred people gathered at the Cape Fear Regional Theatre to honor newly appointed Chancellor Holden Thorp ’86 in his home town of Fayetteville. read more
Bruce Carney, who has been interim executive vice chancellor and provost since last August, has had “interim” removed from the title. The Board of Trustees approved his appointment to the position by Chancellor Holden Thorp in March. Carney, a… read more
Erskine Bowles ’67, who took office as president of the UNC System in January 2006, announced on Feb. 12 that he plans to retire. Bowles, who will turn 65 on Aug. 8, told the UNC System Board of Governors that he would continue to serve through… read more
The University has narrowed the search for its next provost to three candidates who will visit Chapel Hill beginning this month and will give public lectures. A fourth candidate who had been scheduled to be on campus this week has withdrawn from… read more
The global business consultant Bain & Co. has concluded that UNC has management and organizational inefficiencies that keep it from getting the maximum bang for its bucks in the core missions of teaching and research. Bain, which gave its… read more
Robert W. Winston III ’84 of Raleigh, chief executive officer of Winston Hospitality Inc., has been elected chair of the UNC Board of Trustees. Trustees on July 23 elected two other current members as new officers for one-year terms on the… read more
Bernadette Gray-Little, UNC’s executive vice chancellor and provost for the past three years, has accepted the chancellorship of the University of Kansas, effective Aug. 15. Gray-Little, a native of Washington, N.C., joined the UNC faculty in… read more
Five seats on the UNC Board of Trustees will turn over in July. Donald Curtis ’63 of Raleigh, chair and CEO of Curtis Media Group Inc.; Wade Hampton Hargrove ’62, a Raleigh lawyer who also earned his law degree from Carolina in 1965; and Felicia… read more