October 5, 2007

UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Will Step Down; Head of Pennsylvania Agency to Depart; Washington U. in St. Louis Names Graduate Dean; Princeton Professor Is New Poetry Editor for 'The New Yorker'

By SARA HEBEL, KELLY FIELD, and PAULA WASLEY

BLUE GOODBYE: James C. Moeser, chancellor of the University of North Carolina's flagship campus, in Chapel Hill, announced last week that he would step down at the end of the academic year.

Mr. Moeser, who is 68 and has led Chapel Hill since 2000, said his decision to relinquish his job on June 30, 2008, did not signal his retirement. After taking a year of leave to conduct research, he said, he will return to the university as a professor of music.

During Mr. Moeser's tenure,