THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA
INFORMATION
Inauguration of UNC President Thomas Ross to Take Place October 6
on the Campus of North Carolina A&T State University
UNCSA Orchestra, Conducted by Chancellor John Mauceri,
To Perform
GREENSBORO -- Plans are being finalized
for the inauguration of Thomas W. Ross
as the 17th president of the University
of North Carolina, the oldest public
university in America. The formal
ceremony will be held on Thursday,
October 6, at 10 a.m. in the Ellis F.
Corbett Sports Center on the campus of
North Carolina Agricultural and
Technical State University. The event is
open to the public.
The festivities begin at 9:30 a.m. with
an academic procession—led by the NC A&T
State University Marching Band—that will
begin at the New Classroom Academic
Building on Bluford Street and proceed
to the Corbett Center. Participants will
include state and educational leaders,
faculty, students, alumni, and other
university delegates from across the
state and nation. In addition to
President Ross’s oath of office and
inaugural address, the ceremony will
include performances by the
UNC School of the Arts Orchestra and
a 110-member combined choral ensemble
comprised of students from NC A&T and
the University of North Carolina at
Greensboro. A public reception will
immediately follow in the nearby NC A&T
Alumni-Foundation Event Center.
Tom Ross
Free parking for those attending the inauguration will
be available at several convenient locations: War
Memorial Stadium, Aggie Football Stadium, United House
of Prayer for All People, United Institutional Baptist
Church, and the Greensboro Coliseum. Continuous shuttle
service will run directly between these parking venues
and the A&T campus beginning at 7:30 a.m. The last
shuttle back to these lots will depart the campus at 3
p.m.
UNC-TV will provide taped coverage of the inaugural
ceremony and address beginning at 10 p.m. that
evening. Check local listings for the UNC-TV station in
your area.
A Greensboro native, Ross became president of the
17-campus University system on January 1 of this year. A
graduate of Davidson College and the UNC-Chapel Hill
School of Law, he had previously served as president of
Davidson since 2007. Earlier in his distinguished
career, he served as executive director of the Z. Smith
Reynolds Foundation, spent 17 years on the bench as a
North Carolina Superior Court judge, and served as
director of the NC Administrative Office of the
Courts. He also has practiced law, served as a
congressional staffer, and served on the faculty of the
UNC-Chapel Hill School of Government.
The oldest public university in the nation, the
University of North Carolina enrolls more than 220,000
students and encompasses all 16 of North Carolina’s
public institutions that grant baccalaureate degrees, as
well as the NC School of Science and Mathematics, the
nation’s first public residential high school for gifted
students. UNC campuses support a broad array of
distinguished liberal-arts programs, two medical schools
and one teaching hospital, two law schools, a veterinary
school, a school of pharmacy, 11 nursing programs, 15
schools of education, three schools of engineering, and
a specialized school for performing artists. The UNC
Center for Public Television, with its 11-station
statewide broadcast network, is also under the
University umbrella.
Additional information about the Inauguration is
available on the University of North Carolina website at
www.northcarolina.edu/inauguration.
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