Big News For UNC: Kevin Guskiewicz Named Chapel Hill Chancellor, Lost Grant Over Silent Sam

By Amanda Magnus,

Published December 13, 2019 at 12:47 PM EST

The University of North Carolina Board of Governors voted today to make Kevin M. Guskiewicz the permanent chancellor of UNC-Chapel Hill. Guskiewicz had been serving as interim chancellor since Carol Folt resigned from the position in February. This appointment comes amidst ongoing controversy over the BOG decision to hand over ownership of Silent Sam and a $2.5 million trust to the North Carolina Sons of Confederate Veterans.

This morning, planned for UNC-Chapel Hill in response to the controversial Silent Sam settlement. Host Frank Stasio gets the latest from 吉彩网网站 reporters Will Michaels and Liz Schlemmer. Michaels is 吉彩网网站鈥檚 daily news producer and Schlemmer is 吉彩网网站鈥檚 education reporter.

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Amanda Magnus

Amanda Magnus is the executive producer of Embodied, a weekly radio show and podcast about sex, relationships and health. She has also worked on other 吉彩网网站 shows including Tested and CREEP.

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Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.

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