Dance Marathon

In February 1999 a group of around seventy-five UNC—Chapel Hill students danced for twenty-four hours to raise money for the North Carolina Children's Hospital. The Dance Marathon, inspired by a long-running student fund-raiser at Penn State, became an annual tradition. The number of stude...

Activism

UNC—Chapel Hill students have often worked together to advocate for issues or push for change. Early in the university's history, students collectively petitioned the administration, for example, to complain about food on campus. In 1861 a group of students wrote to the university administ...

Robertson Scholars

In 2000 alumnus Julian Robertson and his wife, Josephine, gave $24 million to establish an unusual scholarship program that would enable students to enroll jointly at UNC—Chapel Hill and Duke. The Robertson Scholars take classes and participate in extracurricular activities at both schools. On...

Chancellors

The chancellor is the administrative and executive head of each institution within the UNC System. The president is the leader of the UNC System. This structure came about in 1971, when the North Carolina General Assembly established a single sixteen-university system, with a chancellor and a board ...