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Alumni Facts
For the 2008 class, 68% of graduates were employed and 26% were enrolled in graduate study within six months of graduation. Whether graduates stay in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Triangle area, or seize opportunities across the country and the world, they join a robust and vibrant community of more than 250,000 Carolina alumni. How’s that for networking opportunities?
You may have heard of alumni such as Thomas Wolfe, Andy Griffith, Charles Kuralt, Roy Williams, Michael Jordan and Mia Hamm, but Carolina also educated numerous national and state leaders such as President James K. Polk and UNC President Erskine Bowles.
Other “movers and shakers” include:
Patricia Cotham ‘06
A former assistant principal and the youngest woman ever elected to the N.C. House of Representatives
Jonathan Reckford ‘84
CEO of Habitat for Humanity
Mary Sue Coleman ‘69
A biochemist and former Carolina Vice Chancellor, the former President of the University of Iowa, currently serving as the President of the University of Michigan
Anne Litt ‘88
DJ for KCRW in Los Angeles and music supervisor for TV and movies such as the Oscar-nominated Little Miss Sunshine
Thurbert Baker ‘75
A champion fencer at Carolina, he is now in his tenth year as Attorney General for the State of Georgia
Sallie Krawcheck ‘87
Chair and CEO of Citigroup’s Global Wealth Management division, and named in 2007 by Fortune Magazine as one of the “50 Most Powerful Women in Business”
For more alumni, see Alumni Profiles.