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 […]
Carolina Rejects Trump’s Compact
Friends, We did it! Thanks to your overwhelming response to our “Reject the Trump Administration’s Compact” petition, Carolina’s leadership has expressed its opposition to signing on to the Trump administration’s so-called “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.” At a faculty council meeting last Friday, Chancellor Lee Roberts called the compact an “infringement on academic […]
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 […]
Defend UNC, Sign Today!
Thank you to everyone who signed our petition last week October312024!! If you haven’t already, please sign the petition today. Please also spread the word by sharing with your friends and family who love Carolina and believe in defending the integrity of higher education. With the Trump administration’s deadline for feedback on the compact lapsing […]