The UNC system is looking for someone to serve as interim chancellor for UNC-Chapel Hill after former Chancellor Carol Folt’s sudden departure. But it’s unclear who might want the job when it also means taking on Silent Sam. When Folt announced her plan to step down at the end of the academic year, she decided...
UNC Chapel Hill Chancellor Carol Folt is leaving her job at the end of the month. On Monday, Jan. 14, Folt announced her plans to leave her position in Chapel Hill at the end of the academic year and to remove Silent Sam’s pedestal from campus. Then, Tuesday, Jan. 15, after the controversial Confederate statue’s...
UNC Chapel Hill Chancellor Carol Folt will leave her job at the end of the academic year, and Silent Sam’s pedestal is going with her, she announced to the UNC Board of Governors in an emergency closed session meeting Jan. 14. Folt cited security concerns as the primary reason for the decision to remove the...
The saga of Silent Sam will continue into 2019. Last year ended with a modest truce. A group of faculty and teaching assistants pulled back a threat to withhold student grades if the Confederate monument were returned to its original site on McCorkle Place on the UNC Chapel Hill campus. But the UNC System’s Board...
Dozens of protesters gathered in the rain outside the UNC Center for School Leadership Friday, Dec. 14, to protest the potential return of the Confederate statue dubbed “Silent Sam” to the UNC-Chapel Hill campus. Now it looks as if the debate will continue into next year. After a nearly three-hour closed session, the UNC System...
Silent Sam’s proposed new home will not be a shrine, as some critics have labeled it, but a fortress built to fend off physical attack.
Silent Sam — the controversial Confederate statue that formerly stood on UNC Chapel Hill’s campus — may turn into a rallying election issue for liberal activists, a member of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors told Carolina Journal. “[Liberals] may use this as a campaign issue to try and get the statue...
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