Carol Folt was selected today as the next chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. When she takes office on July 1, Dr. Folt will be the first woman chancellor of the Chapel Hill campus, where women make up 58 percent of the undergraduate student body.
For the past nine months, Dr. Folt has been serving as interim president of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. Prior to being elevated to interim president, she served as provost from 2009 to 2012. Previously, she was the inaugural holder of an endowed chair in the biological sciences and has served as dean of the faculty and dean of graduate studies. She joined the Dartmouth faculty in 1983.
Dr. Folt earned a bachelor’s degree in aquatic biology and a master’s degree in biology from the University of California at Santa Barbara. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of California at Davis.