While merit scholarships at UNC still retain strong offer acceptance rates, they face increasing competition from private universities. Charles Lovelace, the executive director of the Morehead-Cain Scholars Program, said the scholarship had a 73 percent yield for this fall's incoming freshman class, with 85 offers and 62 acceptances. The average draw over the last 10 years is around 80 percent. Lovelace said the foundation hoped for 65 acceptances, and wants to up that number to 75 per class.
University employees have been feeling the pressure of increasing gas prices and are asking the UNC administration to do more. The UNC Employee Forum has passed a resolution to address the difficulties that employees have paying for gas to commute to work. It will send the resolution to Chancellor James Moeser after verifying its information. Ernie Patterson, chairman of the Employee Forum when the resolution was passed, said the gas price situation has become a crisis for employees.
Due to a reporting error, the story "System to make offering financial aid much easier" incorrectly identified the company SCT Banner, Inc. The sidebar incorrectly states that payroll and financial data will be out by the fall of 2010. The rollout dates for these projects have not been set, as noted in the article. Student financials will be out in 2010 The Daily Tar Heel apologizes for the errors. Recent setbacks in financial aid offers have made the emerging Enterprise Resource Planning system more necessary than ever.
Although Chancellor James Moeser is moving on from South Building when he steps down July 1, the top administrators in his cabinet don't plan to go anywhere. When the chancellor's position has changed hands in the past, other UNC leaders have sometimes left to follow other opportunities. But members of Moeser's cabinet have no plans to leave Chancellor-elect Holden Thorp's administration. Richard Mann, the vice chancellor of finance and administration, said he doesn't anticipate a mass exodus of administrators.
During his year as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Chancellor-elect Holden Thorp developed qualities that his colleagues say will help him succeed in his new position.
