University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, is the eleventh-oldest institution of higher education (and the oldest public institution) in the United States. Known to many as Carolina, or simply UNC, it is consistently ranked among the elite American Universities in academics and is considered a "Public Ivy." Carolina has developed an excellent reputation in numerous academic fields, as well as in its successful and very popular basketball program, which last won the National Championship on April 4, 2005.

List of University presidents

Presiding Professors of the University of North Carolina

• David Ker (1794-1796)
• Charles W. Harris (1796)
• Joseph Caldwell (1796-1797)
• James S. Gillespie (1797-1799)
• Joseph Caldwell (1799-1804)

Presidents of the University of North Carolina

• Joseph Caldwell (1804-1812)
• Robert Hett Chapman (1812-1816)
• Joseph Caldwell (1816-1835)
• Elisha Mitchell (acting president, February-December 1835)
• David Lowry Swain (1835-1868)
• Solomon Pool (1869-1872)

(Presidency vacant 1872-1874)

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• Charles Phillips (chairman of the faculty, 1875-1876)
• Kemp Plummer Battle (1876-1891)
• George Tayloe Winston (1891-1896)
• Edwin Anderson Alderman (1896-1900)
• Francis Preston Venable (1900-1913)
• Edward Kidder Graham (acting president, 1913-1914; president, 1914-1918)
• Marvin Hendrix Stacy (chairman of the faculty, 1918-1919)
• Harry Woodburn Chase (1919-1930)
• Frank Porter Graham (1930-1949)

Chancellors of the University of North Carolina

• Robert Burton House (dean of administration, 1934-1945; chancellor, 1945-1957)
• William Brantley Aycock (1957-1963)

Chancellors of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• William Brantley Aycock(1963-1964)
• Paul F. Sharp (1964-1965)
• J. Carlyle Sitterson (1965-1972)
• N. Ferebee Taylor (1972-1980)
• Christopher C. Fordham (1980-1988)
• Paul Hardin (1988-1995)
• Michael Hooker (1995-1999)
• William O. McCoy (acting and interim chancellor, 1999-2000)
• James Moeser (2000- )