Dear Chancellor Folt

Dear Chancellor Folt:

You came to Carolina in our most difficult hour.

And the darkness has not yet lifted.

Alta Cravey

We need a strong leader right now, someone who can speak for all North Carolinians, for staff, students and faculty at UNC Chapel Hill.

You have immense power & responsibility as Chancellor of the UNC system’s flagship campus.

You can be our voice and in this way help guide the UNC system.

Last week, UNC’s Board of Governor’s voted in closed session to give huge raises to UNC system Chancellors.

SPEAK UP for North Carolinians who struggle to pay for their children’s skyrocketing tuitions.

SPEAK UP for staff who work tirelessly to keep our campus beautiful and clean and keep everything working smoothly.

SPEAK UP for students who deserve to study without the burden of life-long debt.

SPEAK UP for faculty who haven’t seen raises in years.

SPEAK BACK to those who want to run Carolina as if it were a corporation.

Tell the Board of Governors that you prefer to stand with ordinary North Carolinians across the state and with smaller campuses and with the Systems’ Historically Black Universities.

Tell them you REJECT the idea of living like royalty when so many North Carolinians are hurting and when so many who work at UNC Chapel Hill aren’t getting raises.

STAND with North Carolinians, Chancellor Folt and we will stand with you.

— Altha Cravey

(Listen to Alta Cravey’s Commentary)

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