After three years of preparation, multiple simulations, public media campaigns and collaborations with student government, administrators reached their goal: a calm day of course registration.
A $14.5 million grant will soon allow UNC to expand a rural Orange County research facility that has drawn criticism for leaks of treated wastewater and chemicals.Neighbors say they are worried about the environmental and community impact of the expansion to the Bingham Facility, where UNC conducts animal research.
In June 2009, a local advocacy group submitted a public records request to UNC for information about a University facility in their neighborhood. Nine months later, they are still waiting for many of those records.
After the first few steps of formulation, UNC’s new academic plan looks likely to focus on globalization and public engagement.Those are the directions members of the plan’s steering committee said they are looking in. They just don’t know how to get there yet.
Beginning this fall, students can expect to find all of their course evaluations online, an effort initiated more than 10 years ago.How to get students interested in filling them out is still a question for administrators.
Students voiced opposition and frustration toward the proposed pedestrian bridge over South Road at two forums hosted this week by student government’s capital projects committee.
The demolition and rebuilding of Odum Village could be part of four major housing projects slated for construction in the next few years.An ongoing housing study at UNC, conducted by consulting firm Brailsford & Dunlavey, will help UNC decide how best to plan housing for Odum Village, University Square, Carolina North and Carolina Commons.
In a few months, a series of secret interviews covering the scandal and political battles of an eight-year presidency will reside in UNC’s library.A new collection of 79 recordings based on interviews between former President Bill Clinton and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Taylor Branch, as well as correspondences between the two men, will become available to the public in January in Wilson Library.The files are based on a series of interviews conducted between Clinton and Branch, a UNC alumnus, during the eight years of Clinton’s presidency.
