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Margaret Spellings

Margaret Spellings, then president of the UNC System, joined Chancellor Carol Folt and the chairs of the university's governing boards in an August 2017 letter warning Governor Roy Cooper that police expected an attempt to pull down the Silent Sam monument in Chapel Hill.

Source: The Daily Tar Heel: Cooper gives UNC permission to remove Silent Sam

1957– · Dates from the Library of Congress · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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  1. UNC leaders warn Governor Cooper that Silent Sam may be pulled down UNC System President Margaret Spellings, Chancellor Carol Folt and the chairs of the Board of Governors and the campus trustees wrote to Governor Roy Cooper that police believed an attempt to pull down Silent Sam could come at any time. Cooper answered that state law let the university remove the monument if its leaders saw a real risk to public safety. People: Carol L. Folt Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Carol Folt, Roy Cooper · Also mentions: Silent SamSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel: Cooper gives UNC permission to remove Silent Sam
  2. UNC leaders ask the SBI to help investigate the toppling of Silent Sam The day after protesters pulled down Silent Sam, Spellings and Board of Governors chair Harry Smith called the act unacceptable, dangerous and incomprehensible. A later joint statement with Chancellor Folt and trustees chair Haywood Cochrane said the administration never told police to let the monument fall and that the SBI had agreed to help investigate. People: Carol L. Folt Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Harry Smith, Carol Folt, Haywood Cochrane · Also mentions: Silent SamSearch the index · NC Newsline: UNC leaders: SBI investigating 'Silent Sam' toppling

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Office of President of the University of North Carolina (System): Margaret Spellings records, 2016-2019

University of North Carolina (System). President · 2016

Records from Margaret Spellings's term as president of the University of North Carolina System, 2016 to 2019, approximately 12,000 items in 15 linear feet, in the University Archives at UNC, collection 70157. Subjects include the campuses the office oversaw, among them Appalachian State, East Carolina, Elizabeth City State, North Carolina Central, the School of the Arts, Winston-Salem State, Pembroke and Chapel Hill.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Spellings, Margaret, 1957-.

UNC

Carolina, from the well to the world : UNC President Margaret Spellings' listening tour, March 2016

2016

A record of the listening tour Margaret Spellings made in March 2016 as president of the University of North Carolina, issued at Chapel Hill that year. The title plays on the Old Well, the landmark at the center of the Chapel Hill campus.

Included because: Its title names this person.

UNC

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