News coverage of former UNC Carol Folt, named president of the University of Southern California in March 2019.
Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019 -- If ever there was an example of the more we learn, the less we know, the settlement concerning UNC-Chapel Hill's Silent Sam and the N.C. Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans is it. Far from a resolution, this is a matter ripe for investigation. It has has done nothing to settle the Silent Sam controversy. It has only highlighted the mismanagement and lack of leadership of this UNC Board of Governors and administration.
Saturday, May 11, 2019 -- "What I'm trying to do, as I work with and for the Board of Governors and with the chancellors and others across the system, is settle things down. (The goal) is to get us to a stable operating environment where we can do the real important work of educating the current and future generations of North Carolinians, doing the research and health-care delivery and all the other things that make this such a powerful gem that the people of North Carolina have."
Former UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Carol Folt is introduced as the 12th president of the University of Southern California.
Former University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chancellor Carol Folt was named Wednesday as the president of the University of Southern California.
Matthew Burns, WRAL.com senior producer/politics editor
Wednesday, March 20, 2019 -- The obsessive micromanagement of the campuses leaves the UNC System leaderless. Individual institutions are in constant confusion. Unless this ends, the system is in jeopardy of being unable to attract the best administrators, brightest researchers and most inspiring teachers while serving our state's aspiring young minds. It all diminishes UNC's reputation.
March 17, 2019 -- Republican lawmakers have named conservatives of their own party to the Board of Governors and changed the governance rules to diminish any appointive authority in the governor's office. This type of action risks turning the Board of Governor's into a purely political organization doing the bidding of our legislative leaders. And, in our opinion, that puts our university's reputation in peril.
Kevin Guskiewicz, dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was tapped Wednesday to be interim chancellor of the campus.
Chancellor Carol Folt made remarks and said good-bye to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill community on Thursday during a Board of Trustees meeting.
Officials at UNC Chapel Hill made remarks to the media on Chancellor Carol Folt's last day at the university.
Chancellor Carol Folt spoke Thursday morning at a Board of Trustees meeting on her last day at UNC Chapel Hill.
Chancellor Carol Folt's last day at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is Thursday, but there's still no word on who will oversee the campus come Friday.
Sarah Krueger, WRAL reporter
UNC Chancellor Carol Folt said goodbye to students on Tuesday with a pizza party.
Trustees of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill met Tuesday behind closed doors but took no action with just over a week before Chancellor Carol Folt leaves her post.
Carol Folt
Sunday, Jan. 20, 2019 -- "She knew what it was going to cost her when she did it," Charles Scott said, "but she (UNC Chancellor Carol Folt) felt it was such an important moral stand to take that she did it anyway. The way the board responded to her was very petty and vindictive. How is that, in any form or fashion, beneficial to the university?"
Members of the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees met behind closed doors for three hours Friday, days after Chancellor Carol Folt submitted her resignation. Officials say her departure might make it harder to attract top candidates to the school.
The UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees holds an emergency meeting Friday morning.
An investigative report says the University of North Carolina declined to put up portable barricades around a Confederate statue the night it was toppled because of concerns they would be unsightly.
When Carol Folt gave her first big speech as head of North Carolina's flagship public university, she praised lawyer Julius Chambers, who battled segregationists in court, and she lauded legendary basketball coach Dean Smith's civil rights advocacy. The Tar Heel titans "worked across differences for the common good," she said in 2013.
Thursday, Jan. 17, 2019 -- Capitol Broadcasting's editorial cartoonist.
Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019 -- The latest turmoil over removing Chancellor Carol Folt is a clear signpost that the UNC System is headed down a path to mediocrity. It comes at great expense to the state's reputation. It damages the ability to have the best and brightest take on the challenges of the future so North Carolina citizens are positioned to prosper and thrive.
A University of North Carolina at Chapel professor said he and many of his colleagues feel left in the dark about what's going on with the direction of the university.
The UNC Board of Governors on Tuesday put Jan. 31 as the date of Carol Folt's resignation as chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, not following the school's graduation in May as she wanted.
