Remembering UNC chief Friday

Many years later, when I was a vice chancellor at UNC Charlotte, I asked him if he even remembered the long-ago Greensboro commencement, and he responded with his usual honesty: "Not only do I remember, but I was scared to death!" No doubt none of us, including young Bill Friday, had an in...

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Published inAsheville Citizen - Times
Main Author Orr, Doug
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Asheville, N.C Gannett Co., Inc 17.10.2012
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Colleges & universities
Higher education
Leadership
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Summary:Many years later, when I was a vice chancellor at UNC Charlotte, I asked him if he even remembered the long-ago Greensboro commencement, and he responded with his usual honesty: "Not only do I remember, but I was scared to death!" No doubt none of us, including young Bill Friday, had an inkling that he would go on to serve with vision and distinction for more than 30 years of historic change and expansion of the state's system of public higher education and be described by the president of the American Council on Education as, along with Rev. Theodore Hesburgh of Notre Dame, "the two towering giants among the leaders of higher education in this country."