"Broadly, schools in the South tend to be funded at lower levels per student than schools in other parts of the country. But southern states also tend to have lower average incomes, and more disadvantaged students, than other parts of the country."
The Anti-Defamation League confirmed there have been over 340 incidents of white supremacist propaganda being disseminated on college campuses in the past 15 months.
In response to the Florida school shooting, some legislators are tweeting about arming school faculty.
The bipartisan proposal would require university leaders to certify they have reviewed any reports of sexual abuse perpetrated by university employees.
“I feel it’s a rollback of a lot of fairly successful programs — programs that support kids by providing educational access both in the K-12 sector through higher education,” Houck said. “I think they’re really short-changing a lot of our best and brightest students.”
The Orange County Board of Commissioners is allocating up to $500,000 for a company to bring high-speed broadband to the area.
Chapel Hill and Carrboro boast some of the best schools in the state, but there remains a large community of families that chooses an alternative form instead.
How many times have you wished for a confusion button during a particularly difficult lecture? One professor found a way to boost classroom participation by providing just that.
A report from the U.S. Department of Education shows the U.S. is lending more money in federal student loans than it is being repaid. In just four years, subsidy costs for income-driven repayment have increased by over 700 percent.
While the number of students receiving grants has risen since 2012, the percentage taking out loans decreased.
Professors who teach texts they have authored themselves may give in to conflicts of interest.
N.C. Central University's School of Law is under threat of losing its accreditation after examination by the American Bar Association.
Although a December study by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education ranked North Carolina as best in the nation for campus free speech, debate continues over the controversial free speech policy adopted by the UNC Board of Governors on Dec. 15.
A recent study found nearly half of the 100 largest public universities — including UNC-Chapel Hill — do not keep statistics on campus suicides.
Amid debates in Congress over the future of DACA, the President’s Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration wrote a letter to the majority and minority leaders of each house urging them to find a resolution for the Obama-era legislation.
Chapel Hill High’s student newspaper, the Proconian, will be going digital starting this year. The decision to move to an online platform was one of funding, time and ease of reaching readership.
As the spring semester begins on many university campuses in the United States, some mainland schools have opened their doors to Puerto Rican students displaced by Hurricane Maria, the storm that ravaged the island last September.
North Carolina school districts are facing a funding crisis. In Orange County, voters approved a $120 million-dollar bond in November 2016 to renovate several school buildings, but additional funding for teachers and new classrooms will be needed to comply with a proposed reduction in class sizes for kindergarten through third grade.
A proposed U.S. House bill by the Committee on Education and the Workforce could bring sweeping reform to higher education policy.
Pascal Mubenga is the new superintendent for Durham Public Schools. Staff writer Rachel McKinney talked with Mubenga about his thoughts on the new job and what Durham residents can expect.
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