UNC-system happenings for Sept. 15, 2014
ASU freshman found dead
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ASU freshman found dead
A potential $15 million budget cut to UNC-system research centers and institutes remains in limbo as the UNC Board of Governors continued discussing the issue at a meeting Thursday.
The release of a death row inmate wrongly imprisoned for 30 years has shed new light on the conflicted state of the death penalty in North Carolina.
WSSU searches for chancellor
The UNC Board of Governors on Thursday tapped a new chancellor for Elizabeth City State University as system leaders look to turn around the troubled campus.
Faculty members from UNC, N.C. State University and Duke University were among a small crowd who came to Research Triangle Park on Tuesday to hear Rep. David Price, D-N.C., discuss federal research funding for the sciences.
CLARIFICATION: A previous version of this article failed to clarify the role student government will play in election events. While Director of State and External Affairs Wilson Parker will organize get-out-the-vote events as president of UNC Young Democrats, all student government activities related to November elections will be organized by External Chairwoman Diana Dayal. Parker said student government, as a whole, aims to be nonpartisan in its approach to elections. The story has been updated to reflect this change.
After four years of pay freezes for UNC-system faculty in five years, a salary hike is on the way.
As the search for a new chancellor at Elizabeth City State University continues, UNC-system leaders are simultaneously working to devise new strategies for the struggling school.
UNC classrooms, dining halls and dorm rooms will be populated this week by nearly 4,000 freshmen, all of whom have arrived here after leaping over application hurdles, many of which came from last year’s Common Application.
Adjunct faculty rights are the subject of legislation that passed the U.S. House of Representatives earlier this month, requiring colleges to report certain data about adjuncts, including their working conditions and pay.
For the first time since 2009, the UNC-system Board of Governors is entering a new academic year without significant state budget cuts on its conscience.
North Carolina’s constitutional ban on gay marriage is likely on its last legs, according to both the state Attorney General and the N.C. chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.
In its first 37 years, the multi-campus UNC system never experienced the financial strains it has been grappling with since the 2008 recession.
Democrats in North Carolina found themselves in an unusual position at the start of 2013: in the state government’s political minority.
UNC-system President Tom Ross knows the stakes facing public higher education in North Carolina: maintaining the competitiveness and quality of universities despite slipping state financial support.
As UNC-system schools continue to make tough decisions in a difficult financial climate, Elizabeth City State University is considering discontinuing its history program — a move that could be virtually unprecedented for a public university.
The UNC student body could be voting for the second time in two years on whether to remain a part of the UNC-system Association of Student Governments.
DURHAM — An abortion law that gained prominence this summer with the “MotorcycleVagina” hashtag on Twitter was attacked by a panel of three women’s health leaders, Duke University law professor Jedediah Purdy and Chapel Hill Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt on Monday.
Leaders across the UNC system gathered Tuesday to launch a systemwide campus security review — an initiative that will zero in on student alcohol and drug use and sexual assault reporting.