University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

==History==
{{Main|History of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill}}

[[File:UNC-6-1819.pdf|thumb|right|University of North Carolina course catalog from June 1819]]
The University of North Carolina was [[charter]]ed by the [[North Carolina General Assembly]] on December 11, 1789; its cornerstone was laid  on October 12, 1793, at Chapel Hill, chosen because of its central location within the state.<ref>{{cite book|last=Snider|first=William D.|title=Light on the Hill: A History of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aKRPWDroJSwC|publisher=UNC Press|location=Chapel Hill, NC|year=1992|pages=13, 16, 20|isbn=0-8078-2023-7|access-date=October 15, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Assembly |first=North Carolina General |title=Act Establishing the University of North Carolina, 1789: Electronic Edition. |url=https://docsouth.unc.edu/unc/unc01-08/unc01-08.html |access-date=2022-09-13 |website=docsouth.unc.edu}}</ref> It is one of three universities that claims to be the [[oldest public university in the United States]], and the only such institution to confer degrees in the eighteenth century as a public institution.<ref>Snider, William D. (1992), pp. 29, 35.</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=C. Dixon Spangler Jr. named Overseers president for 2003–04|url=http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/2003/05.29/01-spangler.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030621223640/http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2003/05.29/01-spangler.html|archive-date=June 21, 2003|work=Harvard University Gazette|location=Cambridge, MA|date=May 29, 2003|access-date=April 5, 2008}}</ref>

During the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], [[Governor of North Carolina|North Carolina Governor]] [[David Lowry Swain]] persuaded [[President of the Confederate States of America|Confederate President]] [[Jefferson Davis]] to exempt some students from the draft, so the university was one of the few in the [[Confederate States of America|Confederacy]] that managed to stay open.<ref>Snider, William D. (1992), p. 67.</ref> However, [[Chapel Hill, North Carolina|Chapel Hill]] suffered the loss of more of its population during the war than any village in the South, and when student numbers did not recover, the university was forced to close during [[Reconstruction era of the United States|Reconstruction]] from December 1, 1870, until September 6, 1875.<ref>{{cite book|last=Battle|first=Kemp P.|title=History of the University of North Carolina: From 1868–1912|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AdshAAAAMAAJ|publisher=Edwards & Broughton Printing Company|location=Raleigh, NC|year=1912|pages=39, 41, 88|access-date=October 15, 2020}}</ref> Following the reopening, enrollment was slow to increase and university administrators offered free tuition for the sons of teachers and ministers, as well as loans for those who could not afford attendance.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Holden|first=Charles|date=February 2018|title=Manliness and the Culture of Self-Improvement: The University of North Carolina in the 1890s–1900s|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0018268017000516/type/journal_article|journal=History of Education Quarterly|language=en|volume=58|issue=1|pages=122–151|doi=10.1017/heq.2017.51|s2cid=149411373|issn=0018-2680|access-date=November 25, 2020|archive-date=May 17, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210517093712/https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0018268017000516/type/journal_article|url-status=live}}</ref>

Following the Civil War, the university began to modernize its programs and onboard faculty with prestigious degrees.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Wilson|first=L.R.|title=The University of North Carolina, 1900-1930: The Making of a Modern University|publisher=University of North Carolina Press|year=1957|location=Chapel Hill}}</ref> The creation of a new gymnasium, funding for a new Chemistry laboratory, and organization of the Graduate Department were accomplishments touted by UNC president Francis Venable at the 1905 "University Day" celebration.<ref>{{Cite news |title=University Day: An Appropriate Celebration{{emdash}}Dr. Venable Reports the University in a Flourishing Condition{{emdash}}a thoughtful address by Col. Bingham |date=October 19, 1905 |url=https://newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn92073227/1905-10-19/ed-1/seq-1/ |work=The Daily Tar Heel |via=DigitalNC |access-date=August 28, 2022}}</ref>

Despite initial skepticism from university President [[Frank Porter Graham]], on March 27, 1931, legislation was passed to group the University of North Carolina with the [[North Carolina State University|State College of Agriculture and Engineering]] and [[University of North Carolina at Greensboro|Woman's College of the University of North Carolina]] to form the Consolidated University of North Carolina.<ref>Snider, William D. (1992), pp. 212–213.</ref> In 1963, the consolidated university was made fully [[coeducational]], although most women still attended Woman's College for their first two years, transferring to Chapel Hill as juniors, since freshmen were required to live on campus and there was only one women's residence hall. As a result, Woman's College was renamed the "[[University of North Carolina at Greensboro]]", and the University of North Carolina became the "University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill".<ref>{{cite news|title=UNC Trustees in broad changes of all branches|date=January 25, 1963|location=Burlington, NC|work=The Daily Times-News|page=1}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Frost|first1=Susan H.|last2=Hearn|first2=James C.|last3=Marine|first3=Ginger M.|year=1997|title=State Policy and the Public Research University: A Case Study of Manifest and Latent Tensions|journal=The Journal of Higher Education|publisher=The Ohio State University Press|location=Columbus, OH|volume=68|issue=4|pages=363–397|doi=10.2307/2960008|jstor=2960008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uncg.edu/campus_links/inside_uncg/inside_history.html|title=The History of UNCG|year=2005|publisher=The University of North Carolina at Greensboro|access-date=May 20, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070804213527/http://www.uncg.edu/campus_links/inside_uncg/inside_history.html|archive-date=August 4, 2007}}</ref> In 1955, UNC officially desegregated its undergraduate divisions.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/ref/unc/uncdesegregation.html|title=North Carolina Collection-UNC Desegregation|publisher=Lib.unc.edu|access-date=July 10, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130119032534/http://www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/ref/unc/uncdesegregation.html|archive-date=January 19, 2013}}</ref>
[[File:Silent Sam.jpg|thumb|right|Statue of [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] soldier [[Silent Sam]]. The statue was toppled by a crowd in 2018, and the plinth (pedestal) was ordered removed by Chancellor [[Carol Folt]] in the same letter in which she resigned. As of October 2020 it is in storage.]]
During World War II, UNC was one of 131 colleges and universities nationally that took part in the [[V-12 Navy College Training Program]] which offered students a path to a Navy commission.<ref name="unorthcarolina-v-12">{{cite web|url=http://studentorgs.unc.edu/nrotc/index.php/history|title=The Beginning of NROTC at UNC Chapel Hill|publisher=[[Chapel Hill, North Carolina]]: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill|access-date=September 28, 2011|year=2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111006084020/http://studentorgs.unc.edu/nrotc/index.php/history|archive-date=October 6, 2011}}</ref>

During the 1960s, the campus was the location of significant political protests. Prior to the passage of the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]], protests about local [[racial segregation]] which began quietly in [[Franklin Street (Chapel Hill)|Franklin Street]] restaurants led to mass demonstrations and disturbance.<ref>Snider, William D. (1992), p. 269.</ref> The climate of civil unrest prompted the 1963 [[North Carolina Speaker Ban|Speaker Ban Law]] prohibiting speeches by communists on state campuses in North Carolina.<ref>Snider, William D. (1992), p. 270.</ref> This stand towards the racial segregation on campus led up to the [[Sit-in movement]]. The [[Sit-in movement]] started a new era in North Carolina, which challenged colleges across the south against racial segregation of public facilities. The law was immediately criticized by university Chancellor [[William Brantley Aycock]] and university President [[William Friday]], but was not reviewed by the North Carolina General Assembly until 1965.<ref>Snider, William D. (1992), pp. 272–273.</ref> Small amendments to allow "infrequent" visits failed to placate the student body, especially when the university's board of trustees overruled new Chancellor Paul Frederick Sharp's decision to allow speaking invitations to [[Marxist]] speaker [[Herbert Aptheker]] and civil liberties activist [[Frank Wilkinson]]; however, the two speakers came to Chapel Hill anyway. Wilkinson spoke off campus, while more than 1,500 students viewed Aptheker's speech across a low campus wall at the edge of campus, christened "Dan Moore's Wall" by ''[[The Daily Tar Heel]]'' for Governor [[Dan K. Moore]].<ref>Snider, William D. (1992), pp. 274–275.</ref> A group of UNC-Chapel Hill students, led by Student Body President Paul Dickson, filed a lawsuit in [[United States federal courts|U.S. federal court]], and on February 20, 1968, the Speaker Ban Law was struck down.<ref>Snider, William D. (1992), pp. 267–268.</ref> In 1969, campus food workers of Lenoir Hall went on [[UNC Food Worker Strike|strike]] protesting perceived racial injustices that impacted their employment, garnering the support of student groups and members of the university and Chapel Hill community and leading to state troopers in riot gear being deployed on campus and the state national guard being held on standby in Durham.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://amst276.web.unc.edu/86-2/unc-food-workers-strike-of-1969/|title= UNC Food Workers' Strike of 1969|website=Food and American Studies|publisher=UNC–Chapel Hill|access-date=27 November 2023}}</ref>

From the late 1990s and onward, UNC-Chapel Hill expanded rapidly with a 15% increase in total student population to more than 28,000 by 2007. This is accompanied by the construction of new facilities, funded in part by the "Carolina First" fundraising campaign and an [[financial endowment|endowment]] that increased fourfold to more than $2&nbsp;billion within ten years.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://giving.unc.edu/development/endow.htm |title=University Endowment |access-date=April 5, 2008 |year=2007 |publisher=UNC Office of University Development |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080311220627/http://giving.unc.edu/development/endow.htm |archive-date=March 11, 2008   }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://oira.unc.edu/historical-trends-1978-2000.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081207171703/http://oira.unc.edu/historical-trends-1978-2000.html  |archive-date=December 7, 2008 |title=Historical Trends, 1978–2007 |access-date=May 20, 2008 |year=2007 |publisher=UNC Office of Institutional Research and Assessment }}</ref> Professor [[Oliver Smithies]] was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Medicine]] in 2007 for his work in genetics.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://media.www.dailytarheel.com/media/storage/paper885/news/2007/10/09/University/Unc-Professor.Wins.Nobel.Prize-3020317.shtml|archive-url=https://archive.today/20081207172004/http://media.www.dailytarheel.com/media/storage/paper885/news/2007/10/09/University/Unc-Professor.Wins.Nobel.Prize-3020317.shtml|archive-date=December 7, 2008|title=UNC professor wins Nobel Prize|last=Sullivan|first=Kate|date=October 9, 2007|location=Chapel Hill, NC|work=The Daily Tar Heel|access-date=May 20, 2008}}</ref> Additionally, Professor [[Aziz Sancar]] was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] in 2015 for his work in understanding the molecular repair mechanisms of [[DNA]].<ref>{{cite web|title = The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015 – Press Release|url = https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2015/press.html|website = www.nobelprize.org|access-date = December 16, 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160102165736/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2015/press.html|archive-date = January 2, 2016|url-status = live}}</ref>

In 2011, the first of several investigations found [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill academics-athletics scandal|fraud and academic dishonesty]] at the university related to its athletic program.<ref name="UNC Scandal">{{cite web|url=http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/eye-on-college-basketball/25205236/unc-scandal-allegations-responses-and-a-timeline-on-whats-to-come|title=UNC Scandal|date=June 4, 2014|publisher=www.cbssports.com|access-date=July 14, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160510110725/http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/eye-on-college-basketball/25205236/unc-scandal-allegations-responses-and-a-timeline-on-whats-to-come|archive-date=May 10, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> Following a [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill football scandal|lesser scandal that began in 2010]] involving academic fraud and improper benefits with the university's [[North Carolina Tar Heels football|football program]], two hundred questionable classes offered by the university's African and Afro-American Studies department came to light. As a result, the university was placed on probation by its accrediting agency in 2015.<ref>{{cite news |last1=New |first1=Jake |title=Accrediting Body Places UNC on Probation |url=https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/06/12/accrediting-body-places-unc-probation |access-date=26 July 2020 |work=Inside Higher Ed |date=June 12, 2015 |language=en |archive-date=July 26, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726053127/https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/06/12/accrediting-body-places-unc-probation |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Jones |first1=Jaleesa |title=University of North Carolina placed on probation by accreditation agency |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/college/2015/06/11/university-of-north-carolina-placed-on-probation-by-accreditation-agency/37403669/ |access-date=26 July 2020 |work=USA TODAY |date=June 11, 2015 |archive-date=July 26, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726051844/https://www.usatoday.com/story/college/2015/06/11/university-of-north-carolina-placed-on-probation-by-accreditation-agency/37403669/ |url-status=live }}</ref> It was removed from probation in 2016.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Stancill |first1=Jane |title=UNC removed from probation by accrediting agency |url=https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/education/article84164597.html |access-date=26 July 2020 |work=Charlotte Observer |date=June 17, 2016 |archive-date=December 10, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181210225541/https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/education/article84164597.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

That same year, the [[public universities]] in North Carolina had to share a [[Austerity|budget cut]] of $414&nbsp;million, of which the Chapel Hill campus lost more than $100&nbsp;million in 2011.<ref name="The Herald-Sun-Trusted&Essential">{{cite web|title=The Herald-Sun-UNC Taking Biggest Hit of System Cuts|url=http://www.heraldsun.com/view/full_story/14624792/article-UNC-taking-biggest-hit-of-system-cuts|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120612024119/http://www.heraldsun.com/view/full_story/14624792/article-UNC-taking-biggest-hit-of-system-cuts|archive-date=June 12, 2012|publisher=The Herald-Sun-Trusted&Essential|access-date=November 17, 2011}}</ref> This followed state budget cuts that trimmed university spending by $231&nbsp;million since 2007; Provost Bruce Carney said more than 130 faculty members have left UNC since 2009.,<ref name="WRAL.com">{{cite web|title=Trustees OK Major Tuition Increase at UNC-CH::WRAL.com|url=http://www.wral.com/news/education/story/10393483/|website=WRAL.com|access-date=November 17, 2011|date=November 17, 2011|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130209124645/http://www.wral.com/news/education/story/10393483/|archive-date=February 9, 2013}}</ref> with poor staff retention.<ref>{{cite news|last=Will|first=Madeline|title=UNC system faculty rates suffer due to decrease in funds|url=http://www.dailytarheel.com/index.php/article/2011/09/unc_system_faculty_retention_rates_suffer_due_to_decrease_in_funds|work=The Daily Tar Heel|date=September 14, 2011|access-date=November 17, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111012102547/http://www.dailytarheel.com/index.php/article/2011/09/unc_system_faculty_retention_rates_suffer_due_to_decrease_in_funds|archive-date=October 12, 2011}}</ref> The [[Board of directors|Board of Trustees]] for UNC-CH recommended a 15.6 percent increase in [[College tuition in the United States|tuition]], a historically large increase.<ref name="WRAL.com"/> The budget cuts in 2011 greatly affected the university and set this increased tuition plan in motion<ref name="The Herald-Sun-Trusted&Essential"/> and UNC students protested.<ref>{{cite news|last=Hartness|first=Erin|title=UNC-CH Students Protest Tuition Increase Plan|url=http://www.wral.com/news/state/story/10386626/|website=WRAL.com|date=November 16, 2011|access-date=November 17, 2011|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120918020824/http://www.wral.com/news/state/story/10386626/|archive-date=September 18, 2012}}</ref> On February 10, 2012, the [[University of North Carolina Board of Governors|UNC Board of Governors]] approved tuition and fee increases of 8.8 percent for in-state undergraduates across all 16 campuses.<ref>{{cite web|last=Stancill|first=Jane|url=http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/02/10/1844642/board-panel-approves-ross-unc.html|title=Tuition increases at UNC schools approved amid protests|website=News Observer|date=2012-02-10|access-date=2013-07-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120429215905/http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/02/10/1844642/board-panel-approves-ross-unc.html|archive-date=2012-04-29}}</ref>

In June 2018, the [[Department of Education (United States)|Department of Education]] found that the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill had violated [[Title IX]] in handling reports of [[sexual assault]], five years after four students and an administrator filed complaints.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/unc-violated-title-ix-in-handling-of-sexual-misconduct-complaints|title=UNC Violated Title IX in Handling of Sexual-Misconduct Complaints|date=June 26, 2018|website=The Daily Beast|language=en|access-date=July 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627012310/https://www.thedailybeast.com/unc-violated-title-ix-in-handling-of-sexual-misconduct-complaints|archive-date=June 27, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://abc11.com/investigation-unc-violated-title-ix-in-handling-of-sexual-violence-cases/3656640/|title=Investigation: UNC violated Title IX in handling of sexual violence cases|date=June 26, 2018|work=ABC11 Raleigh-Durham|access-date=July 20, 2018|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180721043454/http://abc11.com/investigation-unc-violated-title-ix-in-handling-of-sexual-violence-cases/3656640/|archive-date=July 21, 2018}}</ref> The university was also featured in ''[[The Hunting Ground]]'', a 2015 documentary about [[sexual assault on college campuses]].<ref>{{cite news|
title='The Hunting Ground' and the Challenge of Campus Rape|first=Alyssa|last=Rosenberg|date=March 13, 2015|newspaper=Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2015/03/13/the-hunting-ground-and-the-challenge-of-campus-rape/}}</ref> [[Annie E. Clark]] and [[Andrea Pino]], two students featured in the film, helped to establish the survivor advocacy organization End Rape on Campus.<ref>{{cite news|title=Campus Sexual Assault: Annie E. Clark and Andrea Pino Are Fighting Back—And Shaping the National Debate|first=Rebecca|last=Johnson|date=October 9, 2014|work=Vogue|url=http://www.vogue.com/2210627/college-sexual-assault-harassment-annie-e-clark-andrea-pino/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141011222920/http://www.vogue.com/2210627/college-sexual-assault-harassment-annie-e-clark-andrea-pino/|archive-date=October 11, 2014}}</ref>

In August 2018, the university came to national attention after the toppling of [[Silent Sam]], a [[Confederate States Army|Confederate monument]] which had been erected on campus in 1913 by the [[United Daughters of the Confederacy]].<ref name="Silent Sam Landmark">{{cite web|url=http://gradschool.unc.edu/programs/weiss/interesting_place/landmarks/sam.html|title=Silent Sam|access-date=April 14, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100610012446/http://gradschool.unc.edu/programs/weiss/interesting_place/landmarks/sam.html|archive-date=June 10, 2010}}</ref> The statue had been dogged by controversy at various points since the 1960s, with critics claiming that the monument invokes memories of racism and slavery. Many critics cited the explicitly racist views espoused in the dedication speech that local industrialist and UNC Trustee [[Julian Carr (industrialist)|Julian Carr]] gave at the statue's unveiling on June 2, 1913, and the approval with which they had been met by the crowd at the dedication.<ref name="Green">{{cite web |url=http://hgreen.people.ua.edu/transcription-carr-speech.html |title=Transcription: Julian Carr's Speech at the Dedication of Silent Sam |last=Green |first=Hilary N. |website=people.ua.edu |publisher=University of Alabama |access-date=June 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200314152807/https://hgreen.people.ua.edu/transcription-carr-speech.html |archive-date=March 14, 2020  }}</ref> Shortly before the beginning of the 2018–2019 school year, the Silent Sam was toppled by protestors and damaged, and has been absent from campus ever since.<ref>{{Cite web|title=U. of North Carolina under fire for $2.5M to Confederate group in 'Silent Sam' deal|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u-north-carolina-under-fire-2-5m-confederate-group-silent-n1103251|access-date=2021-04-10|website=NBC News|date=December 18, 2019 |language=en|archive-date=August 18, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210818004506/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u-north-carolina-under-fire-2-5m-confederate-group-silent-n1103251|url-status=live}}</ref> In July 2020, the University's Carr Hall, which was named after Julian Carr, was renamed the "Student Affairs Building."<ref name=carrremoved>{{cite news|url=https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article244542652.html|title=These UNC dorms and academic buildings are no longer named after white supremacists|first=Kate|last=Murphy|publisher=News & Observer|date=July 29, 2020|access-date=October 21, 2020|archive-date=October 22, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022013906/https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article244542652.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Carr had supported white supremacy and also the Ku Klux Klan.<ref name=carrremoved />

After reopening its campus in August 2020, UNC-Chapel Hill reported 135 new [[COVID-19]] cases and four infection clusters within a week of having started in-person classes for the Fall 2020 semester. On 10 August, faculty and staff from several of UNC's constituent institutions filed a [[complaint]] against its board of governors, asking the system to default to online-only instruction for the fall.<ref>Allston v. The University of North Carolina System. No. 20 CvS. Superior Court of Wake County. 20 August 2020.

[https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7032862/UNCS-Filed-Complaint.pdf] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200817025212/https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7032862/UNCS-Filed-Complaint.pdf|date=August 17, 2020}}</ref> On 17 August, UNC's management announced that the university would be moving all [[undergraduate]] classes online from 19 August, becoming the first university to send students home after having reopened.<ref>{{cite web |last=Wong |first=Wilson |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/unc-chapel-hill-converts-remote-learning-after-reporting-135-new-n1236977 |title=UNC-Chapel Hill goes to remote learning after 135 COVID-19 cases within week of starting classes |work=NBC News |access-date=17 August 2020 |archive-date=August 19, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200819193138/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/unc-chapel-hill-converts-remote-learning-after-reporting-135-new-n1236977 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Notable [[Leaders of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill|leaders of the university]] include the 26th Governor of North Carolina, [[David Lowry Swain]] (president 1835–1868); and [[Edwin Alderman|Edwin Anderson Alderman]] (1896–1900), who was also president of [[Tulane University]] and the [[University of Virginia]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Previous Presidents and Chancellors |publisher=UNC Office of the Chancellor |year=2008 |url=http://www.unc.edu/chan/past.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012053622/http://www.unc.edu/chan/past.php  |archive-date=October 12, 2007 |access-date=May 20, 2008 }}</ref> On December 13, 2019 the UNC System Board of Governors unanimously voted to name [[Kevin Guskiewicz]] the university's 12th chancellor.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.unc.edu/posts/2019/12/13/announcement-story/ |title=Kevin M. Guskiewicz begins term as 12th chancellor with investment in community &#124; UNC-Chapel Hill |date=December 13, 2019 |access-date=December 22, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191214160719/https://www.unc.edu/posts/2019/12/13/announcement-story/ |archive-date=December 14, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In the early afternoon on August 28, 2023, the second week of the fall semester, a PhD student [[Killing of Zijie Yan|shot and killed associate professor Zijie Yan]] in Caudill Labs, a laboratory building near the center of campus.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hudson |first1=Susan |title=Latest updates: Campus grieves after shooting at Caudill Labs |url=https://www.unc.edu/discover/campus-grieves-after-shooting-at-caudill-labs/ |access-date=29 August 2023 |date=29 August 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=A Message from Chancellor Guskiewicz: The loss of our fellow Tar Heel |url=https://www.unc.edu/posts/2023/08/29/a-message-from-chancellor-guskiewicz-the-loss-of-our-fellow-tar-heel/ |website=The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |access-date=29 August 2023 |date=29 August 2023}}</ref>