The announcement will come during a special meeting of the board at the Spangler Center, formerly known as the General Administration Building.
/*UNC*/ spokeswoman Joni Worthington said the candidate would be available to address the media after the announcement.
The new chancellor will replace /*James Moeser*/, who will take a year's research leave after stepping down from the job before returning to campus as a professor.
Moeser was elected as the successor to Chancellor Michael Hooker, who died in 1999.