Folt announced her plan to resign on Monday with intentions to resign following spring commencement. In the same announcement, she ordered the removal of Silent Sam's pedestal. It was removed early Tuesday.
Following the announcement of her resignation, take a look back on how Chancellor Folt handled campus sexual assault.
"Carol Folt has played one of the biggest hands in the defamation of UNC, but she now has a chance for redemption in the following months."
“I know how difficult these past few months have been and am sorry that this semester has been so trying and painful for many as we struggle to deal properly with Silent Sam,” Folt said in a campuswide email following the rejection of the plan she and the BOT presented for the future of the Confederate monument.
All the initiatives started by Carol Folt but left behind after her announcement of her resignation.
Student activists gave short speeches and answered questions about their "victory party."
"As I have reflected on all of this, I’ve decided that this is the right time for me to pass the leadership of our outstanding university, with all its momentum, to the next chancellor, and look ahead for my own 'new and next,'" Folt said in a media release.
Counter-protesters emphasized the importance of continuing to fight, even if the supporters of Silent Sam don't show up.
Here's a preview of what the 2019 UNC-system Safety and Security Conference will look like.
The conflict surrounding Silent Sam will not be left in 2018 after the UNC Board of Governors rejected the plan to move the monument to a separate building on-campus. Here's the latest on student and administrative responses to the issue.
Merritt, a UNC graduate, has guided the University through several legal battles since 2016, including suits regarding affirmative action, the academic-athletic scandal and the Title IX office.
Mark Crescenzi, chairperson for both the Department of Political Science and the Administrative Board of the Library, sent a personal suggestion about the future of Confederate monument Silent Sam on Oct. 13, which bears many similarities to the plan put forth by the Chancellor and BOT on Dec. 3.
The Dec. 7 Faculty Executive Council Meeting, attended by Folt and Blouin, was interrupted by students reading from Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." After, the council continued to struggle to come to a consensus about Silent Sam. Here's what happened.
Of the numerous groups on and off campus who have spoken out about Silent Sam's relocation, Carolina Jews for Justice added their voice. Here's what they had to say.
According to the Office of the University Registrar, final grades are due to students on 72 hours after their final exam is taken. If grades are not withheld, they are due between Dec. 10 and Dec. 17.
“If you try to be everything to everyone, you end up being nothing to anyone.”
From the events leading up to its toppling to the plans for its relocation.
Traffic was stopped in all directions as demonstrators marched through both lanes of Franklin Street on Monday night. Demonstrators leading the way held a large sign that read, "Put it up. We'll tear it down. Anti-racists run this town." The protest was in response to the proposal by Chancellor Carol Folt and the UNC Board of Trustees to create a $5.3 million "History and Education Center," a freestanding single-use building, to house the Confederate Silent Sam monument on the UNC Odum Village site.
On Monday morning, Chancellor Folt and the Board of Trustees officially made their recommendation to the Board of Governors about where to house Silent Sam, the heavily debated Confederate statue that was toppled in August.
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