As many as 80,000 North Carolina high school graduates will enroll across the 16 campuses of the UNC system during the next decade, and Carolina will be expected to admit its fair share.

That is the responsibility — and challenge — that Chancellor James Moeser posed to the University Board of Trustees March 27 before the presentation of two preliminary studies tied to enrollment growth.

“Chapel Hill will shoulder its share of that growth. And we will do it in a thoughtful, informed way,” he said.

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In January, William L. Roper, dean of the School of Medicine, vice chancellor for medical affairs and chief executive officer of the UNC Health Care System, told University trustees that UNC Hospitals needed to expand to meet the health-care needs of the state’s growing population.

For several years, the demand for services has exceeded the availability of existing beds and other necessary hospital space.

Roper also reviewed a master facility plan for the health-care system and medical school that would seek to keep pace with these burgeoning capital needs over the next decade. The University Board of Trustees approved the master plan concept of creating a new bed tower and patient access center on campus.

On March 26, the trustees took a major step toward implementing the master plan when they voted to approve the location of a new 297,000-square-foot Medical Education Building that will provide teaching and office space to accommodate enrollment growth for the School of Medicine.

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Oliver Smithies, Excellence Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and recent Nobel Prize winner in physiology or medicine, wears a Tar Heel jersey in a new ad celebrating the many things we have to cheer about at Carolina.

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April means warm weather, spring flowers and new leaves on the trees. It also provides an opportunity for faculty to choose who will represent their viewpoints and concerns.

All members of the voting faculty will be e-mailed electronic ballots for the annual faculty elections, to be held April 14–21.

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