UNC student leaders reflect on shortcomings of the fall semester and share their perspective on what changes the University should consider as it plans for the spring.
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Today, we’re talking about the Campus & Community Advisory Committee — that met for the first time last Tuesday.
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With the fall semester well underway, many are already wondering what the spring semester will entail.
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Host Evely Forte chats with DTH Sports Editor Brian to talk about what many deem a quintessential part of the UNC experience — Carolina athletics.
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On this episode of Heel Talk, host Evely Forte talks to assistant online Praveena Somasundaram and University Desk staff writer Sara Raja about how the University and Town of Chapel Hill are holding students — found in violation of University and/or state guidelines — accountable.
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Last Thursday, UNC Provost Bob Blouin announced in an emailed message to the campus community that the pass/fail option would be made available for all undergraduate courses as an alternative to earning a letter grade for the semester.
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Today marks exactly two weeks since the first day of classes began for all undergraduate students on campus, yet a lot has changed since then.
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The Daily Tar Heel’s Editor-in-Chief Anna Pogarcic spoke to Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz in an exclusive interview last Thursday about UNC's reopening and coronavirus response.
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Host Evely Forte spoke to incoming Sports Editor Brian Keyes, Summer University Desk Editor Maydha Devarajan and University desk writer Kate Carroll to break down recent updates to the Board of Trustees' building renaming policy, a report on renaming four campus buildings by the Commission on Race, History and a Way Forward and a multi-departmental request to rename Hamilton Hall, Pauli Murray Hall.
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Host Evely Forte spoke to international UNC students to get a better sense as to how they are feeling about changes to temporary exemptions for students on F-1 and M-1 visas taking online classes in the fall because of the pandemic and what their expectations in response to this policy are for the coming semester.
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In this episode, host Evely Forte spoke to DTH reporters Chiara Evans and Isabella Sherk to understand how University facilities workers and housekeeping staff feel about the upcoming semester and if they are making any demands of UNC administration to ensure they are kept safe.
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In this episode, host Evely Forte spoke to DTH reporter and incoming Assistant Copy Editor Sasha Schroeder and incoming Assistant Online Editor Praveena Somasundaram to understand why many UNC faculty members, professors and teaching assistants are petitioning UNC administration about the fall 2020 semester because of the COVID-19 pandemic, what the petitioners are really demanding and how they hope the University will implement potential changes.
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In this week's episode, host Evely Forte spoke to Maydha Devarajan, summer University desk editor, and former DTH reporter Hannah McClellan to better understand what the Board of Trustees decision to lift a 16-year ban on renaming buildings, monuments and landscapes on UNC’s campus meant, how this decision will affect the University moving forward and how campus leaders are responding.
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In this episode, host Evely Forte spoke to incoming senior class president Chris Suggs; incoming Black Student Movement president Tamiya Troy; Multicultural Affairs and Diversity Outreach committee co-chairpersons Chaz Crosby and Maya Logan; and Interim Chief Diversity Officer Sibby Anderson-Thompkins, to better understand what impact the movement, against police brutality and for racial equity, will have on the upcoming semester.
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In this episode, host Evely Forte talks to three DTH journalists — Chase Cofield, Maydha Devarajan and Claire Perry — to discuss what activism, in the midst of a pandemic, looks like and how community members feel about the national conversation moving forward, in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and other police brutality.
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Evely Forte and City & State reporter Elizabeth Egan talk about the NCDHHS's Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer program and the work of local organizations attempting to feed families impacted by the economic effects of the pandemic. Summer Online Editor Meredith Radford also breaks down how the state is preparing for the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, which officially begins today, and what residents can do to individually prepare.
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In this episode, Evely Forte and Maydha Devarajan, The Daily Tar Heel University desk editor, discuss a Zoombombing that occurred during a final presentation in the Hussman School of Journalism and Media's International Projects class. Evely also explains Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz's recent announcement about reopening the University in the fall.
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In this episode, Evely Forte and The Daily Tar Heel City & State editor Claire Perry discuss North Carolina's three-phase plan for reopening during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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In this episode, Evely Forte and DTH staff writer Rachel Crumpler discuss UNC graduate worker demands in response to COVID-19.
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