As UNC is working to adjust its admissions approach to expand undergraduate student enrollment, it also is planning on revamping its on-campus housing to accommodate more people. The first step was already approved in May, as the university will build its first new dorm on campus in nearly a decade along Country Club Road. The following phases of the housing renewal project recently took a key step forward during the Board of Trustees’ meeting in July. The group approved $8 million in advanced spending authority for its housing and planning departments to search for a designer of another new dorm. Unlike Residence Hall 1, which will replace the old admissions building of Jackson Hall, this new building would replace two existing mid-campus dorms: Parker and Teague. Both residence halls opened in 1958, and despite the bedrooms being remodeled in 2013, the buildings have never had comprehensive renovations to add central air ventilation or elevators. Carolina Housing and the university...