Speaker Ban Law

In 1963 the North Carolina General Assembly passed the Act to Regulate Visiting Speakers, which prohibited from speaking at a state-supported college campus anyone who was a known member of the Communist Party, had advocated the overthrow of the state or federal constitution, or had ever invoked the...

Polk Place

The quad that stretches from South Building to Wilson Library is named for James K. Polk, the only university alumnus to date to become president of the United States. If McCorkle Place, to the north of South Building, represents the nineteenth-century campus, then Polk Place represents the early tw...

Governors

When Roy Cooper was sworn in on January 1, 2017, he became the 32nd governor of North Carolina to have attended Carolina. The first was William Miller, who attended UNC during the 1802 school year, left without graduating, and was elected governor in 1814. Miller's story is not unusual —ma...

College of Arts and Sciences

The heart of the academic experience and home to most of UNC—Chapel Hill's students, the College of Arts and Sciences is where all undergraduates begin their Carolina education. The current unit structure was created in 1935 with the merger of the College of Liberal Arts and the School of ...