“The Carolina Way” in 2025
At the start of 2025, we wrote to you about January’s big news – the hiring of Bill Belichick as UNC’s football coach. Now as 2025 wraps and we’re at the conclusion of Belichick’s first season as coach, it feels fitting to revisit that topic and highlight a new sports-related controversy that’s brewing – the […]
Delivered! Thank you.
Friends, Thank you again for your incredible response to our “Reject the Trump Administration’s Compact” petition. Earlier this week, we delivered the petition to members of the North Carolina General Assembly, the UNC Board of Governors and President Peter Hans and the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees and Chancellor Lee Roberts. We are encouraged by […]
1,378 Signatures and Counting!
The response to our “Reject the Trump Administration’s Compact” petition has been incredible! You’ve helped us barrel past 1,300 signatures. Thank you. How far can we go? Can we make it to 2,500 signatures? Help us get as many signatures as possible by Friday. Will you share the petition with your friends, family and social […]
Update on Higher Ed Attacks
A new school year calls for a news update: the attacks on universities have continued. The latest at Carolina came just this week as the conservative group The Oversight Project requested the syllabi of 74 UNC courses using keywords including “DEI,” “LGBTQ+” and “anti-racism.” This follows a gutting of DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) hiring […]
Carolina’s Accreditation – Bring Your Own Referee?
We received overwhelming response to last week’s newsletter about recent threats to the independence of Carolina’s alumni association. This week, we wanted to cover another topic that has been in the news recently but perhaps isn’t getting the attention it deserves: the overhaul of university accreditation. The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on […]
Reminder – Webinar – In Times Like These: A Conversation with Coalition for Carolina Co-founders
What the hell is going on in Chapel Hill? That was the headline of our first newsletter back in 2021. The same thing could be asked today. Though we never could have anticipated how dramatically things would evolve over the past few years – and especially these past few months. This week’s news was that […]
Webinar – In Times Like These: A Conversation with Coalition for Carolina Co-founders
As we take on the major challenges facing UNC today, it’s important to remember why our Coalition exists. We founded the Coalition for Carolina when we saw the impact of outside forces dictating the choices on our campus. Think Silent Sam, COVID policies, and a disregard for tenure determinations. Campus autonomy was being undermined and […]
The Stories Behind the Stats
Science and research are under attack. We know about the sweeping layoffs and funding freezes happening at research institutions across the country. Yet for many of us, because this is so unprecedented, so drastic and so immediate, it’s hard to grasp what this truly means for Carolina today and in the future. According to a […]
Fealty, Power Grab, Politicization, and, ‘the Enemy’
More Politicization of Higher Education “Ben Sasse, the Nebraska senator, arrived in Florida in February 2023 to help cement a … makeover of one of the nation’s top five public universities. The University of Florida had lured the senator with an unusual $10 million, five-year contract, possibly the most lucrative ever for a public university president. Gov. […]
The Installation of Chancellor Lee H. Roberts
For your convenience, we are including access to a video of the entire Installation Ceremony for Chancellor Lee Roberts. Below is extracted text of the speech that he delivered after he was sworn in as the 13th Chancellor of the University of North Carolina. ______________________________________________________________________________ Welcome, everyone. President Hans. Chief Justice Newby. Chair Murphy. […]