UNC receives poor rating in diversity report
A recent report by the University of Southern California's Race and Equity Center suggested minority students at UNC-Chapel Hill are poorly represented on campus.
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A recent report by the University of Southern California's Race and Equity Center suggested minority students at UNC-Chapel Hill are poorly represented on campus.
The UNC system is taking new measures to improve college affordability for North Carolina students with the “We Promise” campaign announced Monday. The initiative focuses on informing the public about the affordable education options available, more specifically the Fixed Tuition Program and the N.C. Promise Tuition Plan.
Update: 3:40 p.m.: After just three days of students being back to class, UNC Wilmington has cancelled class beginning Thursday at 12:20 p.m. Campus will be closed at 1 p.m. due to the projected path of Hurricane Michael.
Officials from 10 UNC-system schools gathered in Chapel Hill Wednesday morning for the academic year’s first Campus Security Committee meeting. The meeting focused on how to address system-wide issues like campus crime data collection and reporting.
In an email sent on Monday morning, Chancellor Carol Folt and the UNC Board of Trustees released a statement saying that they have created an email account for the community to share their ideas for the future of Confederate monument Silent Sam.
Chapel Hill Mayor Pam Hemminger and the entire Chapel Hill Town Council sent a letter to UNC representatives Friday, reaffirming the Town's request for a permanent relocation of Silent Sam.
The rate of college students seeking counseling for depression and anxiety is rising, according to a report from the Center for Collegiate Mental Health, and students are questioning the role of universities in providing mental health services.
Update 6:30 p.m.: Updated arrest information was sent by UNC Media Relations Sunday evening. Eight individuals were charged during Saturday's demonstration on McCorkle Place:
UNC-Chapel Hill has been ranked 30th in the world in the 2018 Academic Ranking of World Universities by the ShanghaiRanking Consultancy, moving up three slots from last year's 33rd-place ranking. Out of public universities in the United States, UNC is ranked ninth.
Students at three UNC-System schools – UNC-Pembroke, Western Carolina University and Elizabeth City State University – are seeing decreases this semester in their tuition costs thanks to the NC Promise Plan.
Clemmie Dixon Spangler Jr., who served as the UNC-system president from 1986-1997, died on Monday, July 23. We pulled these clips from the Daily Tar Heel archives looking back on the Charlotte native's time spent in Chapel Hill as the 15th system president.
Clemmie "Dick" Spangler Jr., 15th president of the University of North Carolina system and Charlotte native, has died according to the UNC system.
UNC-Chapel Hill alumnus William McInerney was awarded the Gates Cambridge Scholarship. The scholarship, established by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2000, offers full support for graduate study at the University of Cambridge in England.
Three additional co-chairs have been chosen for the final phase of the University’s fundraiser For All Kind: the Campaign for Carolina. The new co-chairs of the Campaign Steering Committee are Vicki Craver, C. Austin Stephens and Jennifer Halsey Evans.
N.C. Gov. Roy Cooper announced Thursday at Cedar Ridge High School in Hillsborough his proposal for $130 million to be utilized by K-12 schools, community colleges and universities to protect students and prevent school violence.
If someone had told Bettylenah Njaramba a year ago that she would become student body president of the UNC system, she wouldn’t have believed them.
As this year’s college admissions cycle comes to a close, it seems like gaining admission to schools in two of the country’s leading states for public higher education is becoming more difficult.
Bettylenah Njaramba, a junior at N.C. Central University, was elected president of the UNC Association of Student Governments Wednesday. She is the first African-American student to be elected to the position.
Starting in the fall of 2018, UNC-Wilmington expects around 100 students from Chongqing University of Arts and Sciences to participate in its new dual degree program.
The UNC-system Board of Governors approved a $95,000 bonus for UNC-system President Margaret Spellings March 23 and is defending the need to include incentives in the president’s contract.