UNC Athletic Director Dick Baddour has confirmed in a press release that the NCAA has visited the UNC campus to investigate some student-athletes. “I can acknowledge that representatives from the NCAA have been to Chapel Hill to speak with some of our student-athletes.
Moving up in the ranks at Carolina isn’t easy. While many promotions choose the obvious second in command, UNC employs national searches to find the best and brightest to lead the school.
While no one can exactly replace UNC-system President Erskine Bowles, the UNC-system Board of Governors is doing its best to find someone like these North Carolina leaders, who hold some of his best qualities and points of experience.
At an impromptu UNC-system Board of Governors meeting at 3 p.m. today in Chapel Hill, system schools announced their individual tuition hikes. UNC-Chapel Hill, N.C. State University and the University of North Carolina School of the Arts were the only system schools to go ahead with the maximum increase of $750 allowed by the 2010 appropriations budget signed into law June 30.
Updated: 3:15 p.m. with statement from survivor’s family. There was a plane crash at 3:15 p.m. Monday at Horace Williams Airpoirt, said Randy Young, spokesman for the UNC Department of Public Safety.
When Appalachian State University officially opened its College of Health Sciences on July 1, ?the school was fulfilling a vision tauted by the UNC system long before the economic downturn limited the potential for growth.
Viridiana Martinez has known since the age of 12 that she wanted to work in international relations when she grew up. It was only after she graduated high school and her friends started wondering why she wasn’t pursuing that dream in college that she told them the truth — she is an undocumented immigrant. Admitting that taboo fact has become routine for Martinez, who emigrated from Mexico when she was 7 years old.
A team of researchers from UNC are six years into a study on new approaches to early HIV detection and prevention. And with a $1.7 million grant from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the study is set to expand.
11:30 a.m. — After one of the three young women hunger striking in downtown Raleigh for passage of the DREAM Act fell ill Sunday night, the strikers held a gathering on their campsite Monday to announce the end of their protest.
I’ll never forget the first day I walked into The Daily Tar Heel newsroom. Dressed in a white summer suit and carrying a reporter’s notebook, I walked determinedly and confidently into the Student Union, determined to make a name for myself at the best college paper in the country. Then I got lost. Some kind soul at the information desk finally directed me to the office.
