TABLE OF CONTENTS  |  FRONT PAGE  |  NEXT ARTICLE |  UNC HOMEPAGE

Moeser to be installed as chancellor Oct. 12

James Moeser will be installed as Carolina's ninth chancellor at this year's University Day, Oct. 12, an annual event that celebrates the birth of the nation's oldest state university and represents Carolina's oldest surviving tradition.

The 11 a.m. installation ceremony will be held in Polk Place, the historic quad between South Building and Wilson Library. A light lunch will be served following the ceremony. If rain is forecast, an official announcement will be made Oct. 11 that the ceremony will be moved to the Dean E. Smith Center.

Classes will be suspended from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 12 so faculty, staff and students will have the opportunity to attend the ceremony.

University Day began in 1877 as a means of commemorating the 1793 placing of the Old East cornerstone. Since 1957, the University has installed its chancellors on this day.

The UNC Board of Governors unanimously elected Moeser as chancellor last April, and he started work here Aug. 15. Before coming to Carolina, Moeser served as chancellor of the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, the research flagship of the four-campus state university system.

In his installation speech, Moeser plans to discuss his goal for Carolina to become the nation's best public university.

"Traditionally, this is one of the most significant days in the life of the University, and the arrival of Chancellor Moeser makes this year's event especially meaningful and festive," said Richard L. Edwards, interim provost and chair of the University Day committee. "We want to encourage our Carolina alumni, students, faculty and staff, as well as our friends throughout the state, to be a part of this special day and hear the chancellor's vision for our future."

The installation ceremony will begin with a 10:40 a.m. performance by the Carolina Wind Ensemble, followed by the procession of hundreds of faculty, students, staff, alumni, visiting dignitaries and leaders. UNC President Molly Broad will preside. Speakers will include Gov. Jim Hunt and faculty and staff leaders Sue Estroff and Joanne Kucharski.

At the installation ceremony, the University will also present Distinguished Alumna/ Alumnus Awards to Russell Earl Banks of Keene, N.Y., award-winning novelist and short story writer; Nancy Stooksberry Cole of Pagosa Springs, Colo., recently retired president of Educational Testing Service; Walter Estes Dellinger III of Chapel Hill, Douglas B. Maggs professor of law at Duke Law School and one of the nation's foremost U.S. Constitution scholars; Patricia Stanford Love of Chapel Hill, retired N.C. Chief District Judge and former N.C. legislator; and Willis Padgett Whichard of Durham, dean of the Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law at Campbell University and former N.C. Supreme Court Justice.

For more information on University Day events, see http://www.unc.edu/chan/installation

TABLE OF CONTENTS  |  FRONT PAGE  |  NEXT ARTICLE |  UNC HOMEPAGE