Molly Corbett Broad, president of the University of North Carolina for nine years, has announced that she will retire at the conclusion of the 2005-06 academic year

University Business, May, 2005

Molly Corbett Broad, president of the University of North Carolina for nine years, has announced that she will retire at the conclusion of the 2005-06 academic year. Her time at UNC is marked by enrollment growth, which has swelled from 160,000 to 190,000 at the 16-campus system, and by successful bond measures that brought $2.5 billion into the system.

Broad, 64, has several degrees in economics and had also held a top administrative spot at in the California State University system prior to coming to UNC...