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Molly Corbett Broad was president of the University of North Carolina System from 1997 to 2005, the first woman in the job, and afterward taught as a professor at UNC-Chapel Hill. She oversaw the $3.1 billion higher education bond that voters approved in 2000.
Source: WUNC: Molly Broad, UNC's first female system president, dies at 81
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Three presidents of the University of North Carolina system, Clemmie Dixon Spangler, Molly Broad and William Friday, together at UNC-Chapel Hill's University Award ceremonies in 1997. Photographed by Hugh Morton.
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Program for the inauguration of Molly Corbett Broad as president of the University of North Carolina system, held on April 29, 1998 and printed at Chapel Hill. Topics include college presidents and their inaugurations along with the system and its presidents.
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Records from the office of the president of the University of North Carolina system, 1968 to 2015, roughly 98,400 items across 123 linear feet, University Archives at UNC, collection 40009. Subjects include the presidents William Friday, C. D. Spangler, Molly Corbett Broad, Erskine Bowles and Thomas Ross, and reach every constituent campus, from East Carolina and North Carolina Central to Winston-Salem State.
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Two items on Molly Broad, a portrait and a set of 37 slides, undated. They belong to the UNC Faculty and Administration binder of the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection.
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Picture: Molly Corbett Broad, photograph, 2010. Public domain. U.S. Department of the Treasury photograph; via Wikimedia Commons
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