Paul Hardin: UNC’s bicentennial chancellor

Posted Jul 28, 2018
Paul Hardin led three schools—Wofford, Southern Methodist, and Drew University—before becoming UNC’s seventh chancellor on July 1, 1988. He was installed on October 12 during a University Day ceremony, where Hardin told those gathered: “The future belongs to those institutions and persons who command it, not to those who wait passively for it to happen.” (A View to Hugh)

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