Erskine Bowles, president of the University of North Carolina System, announced he will retire at the end of the year. Bowles took office in 2006 and has pushed for better long-term planning and closer ties to elementary and secondary education.

Other transactions

Coaches

Women's basketball -- Winston-Salem State named Walter Mebane interim coach of the women's basketball team for the rest of the 2009-10 season.

Men's and women's lacrosse – Adams State hired Jason Lamb as the Grizzlies' new director of lacrosse. He will oversee both the men's and women's teams that begin play in the 2010-11 academic year.

Deaths

Don Safrit, the supervisor of football officials for the South Atlantic Conference, died last week.