Board of Governors denies Chancellor Folt, UNC's Silent Sam proposal
By Preston Lennon | Dec. 14, 2018The UNC-system Board of Governors rejected the plan to house Silent Sam in a new on-campus on building on Friday.
Read More »Carol Folt was the 11th chancellor of UNC and the first woman to hold the position, and she took office on July 1, 2013. She was officially installed on Oct. 12, 2013. She came to UNC after acting as the interim president of Dartmouth College. Folt announced her resignation on January 14, 2019 while simultaneously authorizing the removal of Silent Sam's base and tablets from McCorkle Place.
The UNC-system Board of Governors rejected the plan to house Silent Sam in a new on-campus on building on Friday.
Read More »The UNC-system Board of Governors rejected the plan to house Silent Sam in a new on-campus on building on Friday.
Read More »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.
Read More »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.
Read More »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.
Read More »“If you try to be everything to everyone, you end up being nothing to anyone.”
Read More »From the events leading up to its toppling to the plans for its relocation.
Read More »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.
Read More »The new building would be a center meant to contextualize UNC's history, Folt said at the Monday morning meeting.
Read More »“I don’t believe (Folt and Blue are) experts on student safety." “I believe their actions have been antithetical to student safety, especially on campus, but in the broader community as well.”
Read More »An increase in student fees was officially ratified by the Board of Trustees in November, and now faces approval by the Board of Governors. The new fee of approximately $65 seeks to account for renovations in classrooms and labs. However, student government leaders claim the fee was proposed without a considerable student input. The fee also takes the place of other fees that are being diminished or terminated altogether. Here is the process the fee must go through to be official, and what both sides have to say about it.
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Read More »As Chancellor Carol Folt acknowledges the "soul searching" she has undergone to consider the many groups that have a stake in the decision, she and the BOT requested an extension for the Silent Sam proposal.
Read More »Suggestions on what to do with Silent Sam posted by the account range from burying the statue like a Terracotta warrior to moving it off campus to a variety of locations.
Read More »In the original Board of Governors resolution, Chancellor Folt and the Board of Trustees were due to present a plan for Silent Sam's future to the BOG on Nov. 15.
Read More »This month, after years of pressure from the student body, UNC published raw data from a 2016 survey that measured the racial climate on campus, but many members of the University community think this is too little, too late.
Read More »“When a great tragedy affects the Jewish people, it says, “If God has two giant tears, it fills the whole sea,” she said.
Read More »“That generally, this whole Title IX apparatus is predominantly conducted in secret, which in my view makes it all more important that we find out who has been punished as a result of these proceedings,” DTH legal counsel Hugh Stevens told the court in March.
Read More »Former Chancellor James Moeser, who now works as a professor in the Department of Music, said he has changed his mind on the issue of the Confederate monument and its place on campus.
Read More »On Monday, the UNC Department of Physics and Astronomy released a statement condemning Silent Sam and supporting the students affected by the protest.
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