James Moeser became the chief administrative officer of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on 15 August 2000. In September 2007, he announced that he was stepping down as chancellor on 30 June 2008 with plans to return to the university in 2009, after a year's research leave, as a professor in the Department of Music. Records include correspondence and other files relating to the administration of, and academic programs at, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Of particular interest are files relating to the 2000 state bond referendum on improvements for higher education facilities; the university's fund raising activities and public relations; research, including initiatives in the genome sciences; the administration, with Duke University, of the Robertson Scholars Program; the establishment of the Carolina Covenant scholarship program; the university's response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001; the controversies surrounding the Carolina Summer Reading Program's choice of Michael Sells's and Barbara Ehrenreich's ; and the controversy over the naming of the Cornelia Phillips Spencer Bell Award. The Addition of November 2010 includes materials related to increases in out-of-state tuition; the university's growing emphasis on the performing arts; and the university's public service mission in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The Addition of December 2011 includes materials concerning tuition increases; the controversy surrounding the university's decision to terminate the Cornelia Phillips Spencer Bell Award; and issues related to efforts by the Atlantic Coast Conference to expand by adding three Big East universities. The Addition of December 2012 includes materials related to the university's response to the 2007 shootings at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). Approaching the Qur'an Nickel and Dimed
