Upon her election as the first female and first non-North Carolinian UNC President, Broad strategically focuses on doubling overall minority enrollment and leads efforts to establish a need-based financial aid program for in-state students.
The daughter of two public school teachers, Molly Corbett Broad was born in Pennsylvania and earned her undergraduate degree from Syracuse University and her master’s degree in economics from Ohio State University. Broad began her career at SU and held several positions at the institution before serving as chief executive officer for Arizona’s three-campus university system and then as an executive at the California State University System.