Jean Folkerts, professor of honors and of media and public affairs at George Washington University, has been selected to become the next dean of UNC’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication. The appointment, announced Feb. 24 and effective… read more
Bernadette Gray-Little, since 2004 the dean of UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences, was named Feb. 8 to succeed Robert Shelton as executive vice chancellor and provost, the University’s top academic officer. Saying he never had seen such unanimity… read more
The Arizona Board of Regents has selected UNC’s Provost Robert N. Shelton as the next president of the University of Arizona. Shelton, who has been Carolina’s executive vice chancellor and provost since 1999, was selected over three other finalists… read more
Annual tuition will go up $250 for in-state undergraduates and $1,100 for those from outside North Carolina next fall following approval by by the UNC System Board of Governors. The BOG, which approved all tuition change requests across the 16… read more
Erskine Bowles ’67 was unanimously elected today by the UNC System Board of Governors to be the 16-campus system’s next president. Bowles will take office Jan. 1, succeeding the retiring Molly Corbett Broad. Bowles, 60, is a Greensboro native… read more
The University has received the N.C. General Assembly’s blessing to close Horace Williams Airport, which would remove what has been an obstacle to the planned research campus known as Carolina North. read more
The chair of the UNC System Board of Governors has sought to dispel any public notion that the search for a successor to UNC System President Molly Broad has zeroed in on former White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles ’67. Brad Wilson, who also… read more
Nelson Schwab III ’67, co-founder of the Charlotte-based merchant banking firm Carousel Capital, will chair the UNC Board of Trustees for the next year, and Jean Almand Kitchin ’70 of Scotland Neck and Rusty Carter ’71 of Wilmington will serve as… read more
Four alumni recently were elected to the UNC System Board of Governors by the N.C. House of Representatives, and four others were re-elected. Phillip R. Dixon ’74 (JD), an attorney from Greenville; Fred G. Mills ’64, president of Mills… read more
A political action committee, established three years ago to benefit Carolina, has launched a website and letter-writing campaign asking University supporters to push for three state legislative proposals. read more