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Holden Thorp, a UNC alumnus and chemist, became chancellor at Chapel Hill on July 1, 2008. Scandals in the football program and the African and Afro-American studies department marked his tenure; he announced his resignation after about four and a half years and left in 2013 to become provost at Washington University in St. Louis.
Source: WUNC: Promise, Scandal, And Resolution: The Thorp Era At UNC
Also found in catalogs as H. Holden Thorp.
1964– · Dates from the Library of Congress · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster as H. Holden Thorp → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
5 works about Holden Thorp are indexed here, as are 3 works by Thorp.
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Holden Thorp's address at his installation as chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on October 12, 2008, issued in eleven pages by the Office of the Chancellor and first put out in electronic form. Topics include college presidents and inaugurations at Chapel Hill.
The text of the December commencement address Holden Thorp delivered at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on December 17, 2006, kept as four leaves. The same speaker gave the university's installation address as chancellor in October 2008.
Holden Thorp and Buck Goldstein on the relationship between American colleges and universities and the public that supports them, published in 2018 by the University of North Carolina Press. Topics include the aims and philosophy of higher education in the United States and in North Carolina, and include both the University of North Carolina system and its Chapel Hill campus.
Chancellor's office records from the tenure of Carol L. Folt at Chapel Hill, 2013 to 2018, 8 linear feet in the University Archives at UNC, collection 40024. Topics include university administration and educational fund raising, curriculum planning, health occupations schools and medical education, and race relations and college integration in North Carolina. Holden Thorp and Christopher C. Fordham also appear.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Thorp, H. Holden, 1964-.
Allan Gurganus wrote this brief oration for the installation of Holden Thorp as chancellor of the University of North Carolina on 12 October 2008. The material includes three sequences of pages and leaves: the typescript with manuscript notations, a next to last draft, and out-takes and earlier tries. Topics include the inauguration of college presidents at Chapel Hill and the Office of the Chancellor. In UNC's North Carolina Collection.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Thorp, H. Holden, 1964-.
The printed program for University Day at UNC Chapel Hill on October 12, 2008, when Holden Thorp was installed as the university's tenth chancellor at three in the afternoon on Polk Place. Twelve unnumbered pages with illustrations and portraits, 28 centimeters, published by the university.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Thorp, H. Holden, 1964-.
A long run of chancellor's office records at Chapel Hill, 1965 to 2018, about 13,200 items in 16.5 linear feet, University Archives at UNC, collection 70122. Subjects include the chancellors in turn, from J. Carlyle Sitterson and Nelson Ferebee Taylor through Christopher Fordham, Paul Hardin, Michael Hooker, William McCoy, James Moeser and Holden Thorp to Carol Folt.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Thorp, H. Holden, 1964-.
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Picture: Holden Thorp, 2026. CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph by Runawaymo; via Wikimedia Commons
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