Home, the latest novel by Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison, will be the 2013 summer reading book for incoming students at Carolina. A nine-member selection committee of students, faculty and staff selected… read more
The UNC Symphony Orchestra has taken first place in the American Prize competition for recordings of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances in a performance in April 2011. The 100-piece UNC orchestra won in the college/university… read more
It’s her passion for crafting the present for posterity that drove senior Waverly Lynch to become the Yackety Yack’s editor-in-chief in 2011. Lynch rose to the position in an unusual way: The yearbook’s board had asked the previous… 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 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
Chancellor Holden Thorp ’86 told UNC System President Thomas Ross’75 (JD) on Sunday that he plans to resign at the end of the academic year. According to a UNC news release, Thorp said he would be leaving because it is best for the future of the… read more
The UNC System Board of Governors’ investigation of academic fraud at Carolina was out in the open this week in a public session in which UNC officials promised a list of reforms to guard against any repeat of what happened in its department of… read more
The University is bringing in a former governor, a national management consulting firm and the president of a prestigious national higher education association to help address different aspects of issues related to an internal investigation that… read more
A subpoena that led to the downfall of an American president will have a new home at UNC, thanks to a donation by Raleigh lawyer Rufus Edmisten ’63. Edmisten, deputy chief counsel to the Senate Watergate Committee chaired by Sen. Sam Ervin… read more