Chancellor-Elect Carol Folt praised by UNC leaders
UNC-system President Thomas Ross said the first time Carol Folt walked into his office and sat down to answer his first question, he knew he would choose her to be UNC’s next chancellor.
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UNC-system President Thomas Ross said the first time Carol Folt walked into his office and sat down to answer his first question, he knew he would choose her to be UNC’s next chancellor.
The UNC Board of Governors voted unanimously to approve Carol Folt, interim president of Dartmouth College, as the University’s next chancellor.
For the first time in 224 years, UNC’s top leadership role will likely be held by a woman.
Two sources familiar with the University’s chancellor search have confirmed that Carol Folt, interim president at Dartmouth College, will be named UNC’s first female chancellor Friday.
After months of uncertainty surrounding who will succeed Chancellor Holden Thorp this summer, the UNC-system Board of Governors will select the next chancellor Friday.
UNC is the only university that has a piece of water infrastructure as its official logo, a fact that was made crystal clear Thursday afternoon.
With the Friday approval of a tuition increase for both the 2012-13 and 2013-14 academic years comes a change in focus for next year’s student body president.
For administrators and trustees, the decision to propose increasing tuition by 15.6 percent for in-state students came down to the financial needs of faculty, whose salaries have been frozen for three years.
When pushed to adjust to state funding cuts, the University’s School of Nursing chose quality over quantity.
The Gillings School of Global Public Health, a consistently top-ranked school in the nation, is facing serious funding cuts which are affecting its faculty, research grants and course offerings.
Growing class sizes in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication could threaten its accreditation status if the trend isn’t reversed by 2014, when it will be reexamined.
Several departments on campus have fallen victim to years of budget cuts, but the University’s ability to provide financial aid has remained relatively unscathed.
The University will form a committee to review academic practices in the African and Afro-American Studies department and the practice of independent study, Chancellor Holden Thorp said in a Faculty Council meeting Friday.
Communicating accurate and essential news in a chaotic environment will become increasingly vital as the media evolves, Robert Gibbs said Tuesday night.
The debate regarding same-sex marriage will be a major item on the agenda of the N.C. General Assembly, which will return to Raleigh next week.
The hunter has become the hunted.
The institutions on the front lines of the University’s budget struggles are feeling the persistent pain associated with drastic cuts.
A popular series of honors courses is slated to be the latest victim of budget cuts to UNC’s academic programs.
Junior Steven Norton was chosen Saturday to be the next editor-in-chief of The Daily Tar Heel.
Administrators are trying to rework financial awards to attract top students to UNC in new ways.