University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Coordinates: 35°54′30″N 79°3′0″W / 35.90833, -79.05

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Latin: Universitas Carolinae Septentrionalis
Motto: Lux Libertas
("Light, Liberty")
Established: December 11, 1789
Type: Public
Endowment: $2.2 billion
Chancellor: James Moeser
Faculty: 3,295
Students: 28,136
Undergraduates: 17,628
Postgraduates: 8,177
Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
Campus: Suburban
729 acres (3.0 km²)
Colors: Carolina blue and white
         
Nickname: Tar Heels
Athletics: NCAA Division I FBS
26 varsity sports
Affiliations: AAU, ACC, University of North Carolina
Website: www.unc.edu
Logo of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Endowment, faculty, and student data is for 2007. References: [1][2][3][4][5][6]

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) is a public, coeducational, research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. The campus is the oldest in, and flagship of, the University of North Carolina system. The first public university in the United States to admit students, UNC is one of the original eight schools known as a Public Ivy.

Academically, undergraduates receive a liberal arts education with an opportunity to specialize within the professional schools of the university later in their studies. In both teaching and research, UNC has been highly ranked by publications such as BusinessWeek and U.S. News & World Report. Along with Duke University in Durham and North Carolina State University in Raleigh, the university forms one of the corners of the Research Triangle.

UNC has a strong history in athletics, notably in women's soccer and men's basketball. The North Carolina Tar Heels share rivalries with other Tobacco Road schools and have provided many Olympians to United States teams. The student newspaper The Daily Tar Heel has won national awards for collegiate media, while the student radio station WXYC provided the world's first internet radio broadcast.

Usage of the school's colors of Carolina blue and white dates back to the twin Dialectic and Philanthropic literary societies, formed in 1795. The university also has a tradition of student self-governance with an honor code. UNC's mascot is a live ram named Rameses.

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[edit] History

Main article: History of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The Old Well, the university's most recognized landmark
The Old Well, the university's most recognized landmark

Chartered by the North Carolina General Assembly on December 11, 1789, the university began instruction of undergraduates in 1795. UNC is the oldest public university in the nation and the only one to award degrees in the eighteenth century.[7][8] Its cornerstone was laid on October 12, 1793, near an abandoned Anglican chapel, chosen due to its central location within the state.[9][10]

During the Civil War, the university was among the few in the Confederacy that managed to stay open.[11] Soon afterward, the university was forced to close during Reconstruction from 1871 until 1875.[12][13]

In 1932, UNC became one of the three original campuses in the Consolidated University of North Carolina.[14] In 1963, the consolidated university was made fully coeducational. As a result, the Women's College of the University of North Carolina was renamed the "University of North Carolina at Greensboro," and the University of North Carolina became the "University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill."[15] Predating the other two schools by 98 years, UNC became the de facto flagship university of the new statewide system.[15][16][17]

During the 1960s, the campus was the location of significant political protest, first about local racial segregation of hotels and restaurants,[18] and then opposition to the Speaker Ban Law prohibiting speeches by Communists on state campuses in North Carolina.[19][20]

From the late 1990s onward, UNC expanded rapidly not only in terms of student population, but also in facilities funded in part by the "Carolina First" fundraising campaign and an endowment that increased fourfold in just ten years.[6][21] In 2007, a full professor received a Nobel Prize for the first time when Oliver Smithies was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work in genetics.[22]

Notable leaders of the university include the 26th Governor of North Carolina, David Lowry Swain; and Edwin Anderson Alderman, who was also president of Tulane University and the University of Virginia.[23] Current chancellor James Moeser will be succeeded by Holden Thorp in the summer of 2008.[24]

[edit] Campus

Morehead-Patterson Bell Tower
Morehead-Patterson Bell Tower

UNC’s sprawling and landscaped campus is dominated by two central quads. One of the quads is named Polk Place, after President James K. Polk, a native of North Carolina and an alumnus of the university.[25] Students gather in a sunken brick courtyard known as the Pit, often engaging in debate with the Pit Preacher. The Morehead-Patterson Bell Tower, located in the heart of campus, tolls the hour. In 1999, UNC was one of sixteen recipients of the American Society of Landscape Architects Medallion Awards and was identified as one of 50 college or university "works of art" by T.A. Gaines in his book The Campus as a Work of Art.[2][26]

The university is informally divided into three campuses.

North campus includes the two quads along with the Pit, Frank Porter Graham Student Union, Student Stores, and the Davis, House, and Wilson libraries. Almost all classrooms are located in north campus along with several undergraduate residence halls.[27]

Middle campus includes Fetzer Field and Woollen Gymnasium along with the Student Recreation Center, Kenan Memorial Stadium, Irwin Belk outdoor track, Eddie Smith Field House, Boshamer Stadium, Carmichael Auditorium, Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History, School of Government, School of Law, UNC Health Care, George Watts Hill Alumni Center, Ram's Head complex (with a dining hall, parking garage, grocery store, and gymnasium), and various residence halls.[27]

South campus includes the Dean Smith Center for men's basketball, Kenan-Flagler Business School, and the newest student residence halls.[27]

Campus in the summer
Campus in the summer

A new satellite campus, Carolina North, has recently been proposed and is now in the planning stages. This is planned to be primarily a research park with new science facilities for the twenty-first century, but will also add residence halls to cope with future increases in student population.[28]

[edit] Old Well and McCorkle Place

The most enduring symbol of the university is the Old Well, a small neoclassical rotunda based on the Temple of Love in the Garden of Versailles, in the same location as the original well that provided water for the school.[29] The well stands at the south end of McCorkle Place, the northern quad, between two of the campus's oldest buildings, Old East and Old West. Also in McCorkle Place is the Davie Poplar tree under which the university's founder, William Davie, supposedly selected the location for the university in 1792.[30] Due to the tree's questionable health from damages caused by severe weather, such as Hurricane Fran in 1996, the university has planted two genetic clones nearby, called Davie Poplar Jr. and Davie Poplar III.[30] The second clone was planted in conjunction with the university's bicentennial celebration in 1993 by President Bill Clinton.[30] Another university landmark is Silent Sam, a statue commemorating the soldiers who lost their lives fighting for the Confederacy. The statue is controversial as some claim that the monument reminds them of racism and slavery. Others think that Silent Sam is simply a piece of the rich heritage of the South.[31]

[edit] Academics

Graham Memorial in the fall
Graham Memorial in the fall

[edit] Curriculum

UNC offers 71 bachelor's, 107 master's and 74 doctoral degree programs.[32] The university enrolls more than 27,000 students from all 100 North Carolina counties, the other 49 states, and 47 other countries. State law requires that the percentage of students from North Carolina in each freshman class meets or exceeds 82%.[33]

At the undergraduate level, students spend their first two years at UNC working to fulfill "perspective" requirements. English, social science, history, foreign language, mathematics, and natural science courses are required of all students, ensuring that they receive a broad liberal arts education. The university also offers a wide range of first year seminars for incoming freshmen. After their sophomore year, students move on to the College of Arts and Sciences, or choose a professional degree program within medicine, business, education, pharmacy, information and library science, public health, or journalism and mass communication.

[edit] Libraries

Wilson Library viewed across Polk Place
Wilson Library viewed across Polk Place

UNC's library system, which comprises a number of individual libraries housed throughout its campus, holds more than 5.8 million volumes in total.[32] UNC's North Carolina Collection is the largest state-oriented collection nationwide.[34] The library has an extensive Southern and rare book collection, housed in Wilson Library. The university is home to ibiblio, the third oldest website in the world and one of the world's largest collections of freely available information including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies.[35]

The Davis Library, situated near the Pit, is the main library. The R.B. House Undergraduate Library, also popularly frequented, is located in the same general area. Wilson Library, which was the university's main library prior to the construction of Davis, now houses largely special collections, rare books, and temporary exhibits.[36]

[edit] Reputation and rankings

The School of Public Health viewed from the roof of the M.E. Jones building
The School of Public Health viewed from the roof of the M.E. Jones building

The university was named a Public Ivy by Richard Moll in his 1985 book The Public Ivies: A Guide to America's Best Public Undergraduate Colleges and Universities, and in later guides by Howard and Matthew Greene.[37][38] Many of UNC's professional schools have achieved high rankings in publications such as Forbes Magazine, as well as annual U.S. News & World Report surveys.[39][40] The business school's program was fifth "Best Executive MBA" by BusinessWeek in 2005.[41] Other highly ranked schools include library and information studies, medicine, pharmacy, and public health.[42][43][44][45] Nationally, UNC is in the top ten public universities for research.[46]

The undergraduate program has ranked in the top 30 in the United States by U.S. News & World Report, and is consistently among the top five public universities, just behind UC Berkeley, University of Virginia, UCLA, and the University of Michigan.[47] Kiplinger's Personal Finance has also ranked UNC as the number one "best value" public school for in-state students.[48] Similarly, the university is first among public universities and ninth overall in "Great Schools, Great Prices," based on academic quality, net cost of attendance and average student debt.[49] Along with one of the nation's most acclaimed undergraduate honors programs in a public institution, UNC also has the highest percentage of undergraduates studying abroad for any public institution.[32][50]

[edit] Scholarships

Main article: Scholarships of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

UNC has for decades offered an undergraduate merit scholarship known as the Morehead Scholarship (currently named the Morehead–Cain Scholarship). Recipients receive tuition, room and board, books, and funds for summer study for four years. Since the inception of the Morehead scholarship program, 23 alumni of the program have been named Rhodes Scholars.[51] North Carolina also boasts the Robertson Scholars Program, a scholarship granting recipients the opportunity to attend both UNC and neighboring Duke University.[52] Additionally, the university provides merit-based scholarships, including the Carolina Scholars program, which offers full scholarships for out-of-state students.[53]

North Carolina has the second largest number of Rhodes Scholars among public universities (41 since 1902) behind the University of Virginia.[54] Additionally, many students have won Truman, Goldwater, Mitchell, Churchill, Fulbright, and Mellon scholarships.[55]

[edit] Athletics

Tip-off of a basketball game against Duke at the Dean Smith Center
Tip-off of a basketball game against Duke at the Dean Smith Center
Main article: North Carolina Tar Heels
See also: List of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Olympians

The school sports teams participate in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision and Atlantic Coast Conference.[56] The NCAA refers to UNC as "University of North Carolina" for athletics.[57] The university has won 33 NCAA team championships in six different sports, ninth all-time, and 51 individual national championships. These include eighteen NCAA championships in women's soccer, five in women's field hockey, four in men's lacrosse, four in men's basketball, one in women's basketball, and one in men's soccer.[58] Other recent successes include three consecutive College World Series appearances by the baseball team from 2006 to 2008.[59]. In 1994, the university's athletic programs won the Sears Directors Cup "all-sports national championship" awarded for cumulative performance in NCAA competition.[60] Consensus collegiate national athletes of the year from North Carolina include Rachel Dawson in field hockey; Phil Ford, Tyler Hansbrough, Antawn Jamison, and Michael Jordan in men's basketball; and Mia Hamm (twice), Shannon Higgins, Kristine Lilly, and Tisha Venturini in women's soccer.[61]

[edit] Student organizations

Commencement ceremony in Kenan Memorial Stadium
Commencement ceremony in Kenan Memorial Stadium

Most student organizations at UNC are officially recognized and provided with assistance by the Carolina Union, an administrative unit of the university. Funding is derived from the student government student activity fee, which is allocated at the discretion of the student congress.[62]

[edit] Charity

The largest student fundraiser, the UNC Dance Marathon, involves thousands of students, faculty, and community members in raising funds for the North Carolina Children's Hospital. The organization conducts fundraising and volunteer activities throughout the year and has donated $1.3 million to date since its inception in 1999.[63]

Many other philanthropic organizations are at UNC, and the university has a tradition of public service. One of these organizations is the Scholars' Latino Initiative, which is a mentoring program to encourage latino high school students to attend college.[64]

[edit] Media

The student run newspaper The Daily Tar Heel is ranked highly by The Princeton Review,[65] and has received other awards such as the Pacemaker Award from the Associated Collegiate Press.[66] The DTH, as known on campus, presented news services online as early as 1995.[67]

Founded in 1977, WXYC 89.3 FM is UNC's student radio station that broadcasts 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Programming is left up to student DJs. WXYC typically plays little heard music from a wide range of genres and eras. On November 7, 1994, WXYC became the first radio station in the world to broadcast its signal over the internet.[68][69] A student-run television station, STV also exists.[70]

[edit] Music

The Marching Tar Heels before a football game at Kenan Memorial Stadium
The Marching Tar Heels before a football game at Kenan Memorial Stadium

The athletic teams at the university are supported by the Marching Tar Heels, the university's marching band. This all-volunteer band consisting of 275 members supports the 28 Olympic sports programs, including basketball, field hockey, football, lacrosse, soccer, volleyball, and wrestling.[71]

[edit] Greek and honor societies

Many fraternities and sororities on campus belong to the Pan-Hellenic Council, including Interfraternity Council, Greek Alliance Council, and National Pan-Hellenic Council. Fifteen percent of undergraduates are Greek.[72] UNC also offers professional and service fraternities that do not have houses but are still recognized by the school. Honor societies such as the Order of the Golden Fleece, the Order of the Grail-Valkyries, and the Order of the Old Well also exist.[73]

[edit] Student government

Student government is composed of an executive branch headed by the student body president,[74] a legislative branch composed of a student-elected 40-member student congress,[75] and a judicial branch composed of a student-run honor system, including an honor court and the student supreme court.[76] Additional student government bodies include an elections board and the loosely-affiliated Carolina Athletic Association. Student government authority derives from the Student Code, a document written and adopted in 1946 at the suggestion of Douglass Hunt.[77] Prior to that time, the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies as well as other organizations supported student concerns. The Student Body President is a voting member of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Board of Trustees.[78][79]

[edit] Traditions

Rameses the ram at the 1957 Victory Bell football game
Rameses the ram at the 1957 Victory Bell football game

[edit] Honor code

Student self-governance is another cherished tradition at UNC. Carolina has a longstanding honor code known as the "Instrument of Student Judicial Governance," supplemented by an honor court to resolve issues with students accused of academic and conduct offenses against the university community. Faculty are forbidden to punish students caught cheating in any way (such as with failing grades), but instead are to report such cases to the Student Attorney General. Only if found guilty in the Honor Court, composed of students, can a student be sanctioned.[80]

[edit] Mascot and nickname

See also: Rameses and Tar Heel

The university's teams are nicknamed the "Tar Heels", in reference to the state's eighteenth century prominence as a tar and pitch producer.[81] The nickname's cultural relevance, however, has a complex history that includes anecdotal tales from both the American Civil War and the American Revolution.[81] The mascot is a live ram named Rameses, a tradition that dates back to 1924, when the team manager brought a ram to the annual game against VMI, inspired by the play of former football player Jack "The Battering Ram" Merrit. The kicker rubbed its head for good luck before a game-winning field goal, and the ram stayed.[82] There is also an anthropomorphic ram mascot who appears at games.[83] The modern Rameses is depicted in a sailor's hat, a reference to a United States Navy flight training program that was attached to the university during World War II.[84]

[edit] Rivalries

Celebration on Franklin Street after victory over Duke
Celebration on Franklin Street after victory over Duke
See also: Duke Rivalry, NC State Rivalry, and The South's Oldest Rivalry

The South's Oldest Rivalry between North Carolina and its first opponent, the University of Virginia, was prominent throughout the 1980s. September 2007 saw the 112th meeting in football between the two teams. The bitterness of this rivalry has been superseded by somewhat less historical in-state competition with Duke University, North Carolina State University, and Wake Forest University. North Carolina's rivalry with Duke is particularly intense in basketball. For several decades, both teams have been frequent contenders for the national championship, and, located just eight miles (13 km) apart, the students and fans of the two schools are focused in their enmity.[85]

Traditionally, the students exchange pranks with North Carolina State, including painting their "Free Expression Tunnel" blue every year before big athletic competitions. In retaliation, North Carolina State University students travel to Chapel Hill to play their fight song and occasionally dye fountains red.[86] After important basketball victories, there is a tradition for students to rush downtown to Franklin Street, which the police shut to traffic. People converge at and around Franklin and Columbia Streets near campus and light bonfires.[87]

[edit] School colors

See also: Carolina blue and Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies

Since the beginning of intercollegiate athletics at UNC in the late nineteenth century, the school's colors have been Carolina blue and white.[88] The colors were chosen years before, with the blue (a shade similar to sky blue) representing the Dialectic Society and white representing the Philanthropic Society. The school had required participation in one of the clubs, and traditionally the "Di"s were from the western part of North Carolina while the "Phi"s were from the eastern part of North Carolina. On public occasions, both groups were equally represented, and eventually both colors were used by processional leaders to signify the unity of both groups as part of the university.[89]

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