January 15, 1975: UNC Opened Its Doors, With Little Fanfare

Posted Jan 21, 2025
On a cold and muddy winter morning 230 years ago, UNC officially opened its doors, though it didn’t have many doors to open. On Jan. 15, 1795, in a sparsely attended ceremony, Gov. Richard Dobbs Spaight and presiding professor the Rev. David Kerr inspected the recently completed two-story brick building that was The University of North Carolina. (Carolina Alumni Review)

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