An Update from Chancellor Roberts
Last week, we shared with you a presentation on academic freedom delivered by Professor Lloyd Kramer to UNC’s Faculty Council. This week, we want to highlight the remarks of Chancellor Lee Roberts at that same meeting. You can view Chancellor Roberts’s full remarks here, where he shares with the Faculty Council his vision and outlook […]
The Autocracy of it All
Millions more in budget cuts are coming to UNC-Chapel Hill – and somehow, this seemed to be a surprise to the very people tasked with making the decision. At last week’s Board of Trustees meeting, the board voted for $16.5 million in new budget cuts. These cuts were proposed in addition to the $70 million […]
Kramer: Abolishing Area Studies Centers is Wrong
The following post was submitted to The Coalition for Carolina by Dr. Lloyd Kramer. Kramer is a professor emeritus of history and former chair of the Faculty Council at UNC, Chapel Hill. UNC Should Not Close its Global Studies Centers. The recent announcement that UNC-Chapel Hill plans to close its six thriving Global Studies Centers […]
The BIG Question
The Daily Tar Heel recently sat down with Chancellor Lee Roberts to talk with him about what’s been going on at Carolina and, more specifically, the closing of the area centers that we wrote about last week. The full interview is informative and worth a read. The DTH provided top-notch journalism, as always. We were especially interested in the […]
Carolina’s Global Blunder
Happy new year, Tar Heels and friends! We are excited for the year ahead and the work we will do together over the next 12 months to support Carolina and its mission. We want to start this year by highlighting an important announcement that was made last month and that headlined yesterday’s print edition of […]
Happy Holidays from The Coalition for Carolina
Friends, Happy holidays from all of us at the Coalition for Carolina. This year was an action-packed one for UNC and higher education, and we thank you for standing with us through the ups and downs. We also want to use this final note of the year to remember former Governor Jim Hunt, who passed […]
“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 […]
Un-SCiLLed Leadership
We hope you had a very happy Thanksgiving and are enjoying the start of the holiday season. We’ve been thankful to share some exciting and encouraging Carolina news with you recently – from three UNC students being awarded prestigious Rhodes Scholarships to Chancellor Lee Roberts taking bold leadership by rejecting the Trump administration’s higher education […]
Giving Thanks for Carolina
Friends, The Thanksgiving season is upon us, and we want to wish you a very happy holiday from all of us at the Coalition for Carolina. We hope you get to spend some quality time with family and friends and reflect on what is most important. We are thankful for all of you who read […]
Celebrating Carolina’s Scholars
The Rhodes Scholarship announcements were released this week, and for the second time in Carolina history, three Tar Heels have been named Rhodes scholars in the same year. Congratulations to Tiana Dinham, Rotimi Kukoyi and Gabrielle Moreau! Established in 1902, the Rhodes scholarship funds study at the University of Oxford in England. It is one […]