Despite low enrollment and the moral implications of teaching the course, the UC San Diego senate denied a request to discontinue a Woody Allen class on the premise of academic freedom and the First Amendment.
Students subject to disciplinary action as a result of gun reform protests will not be penalized at many institutions.
Following a grant, Winston-Salem State University's Rams Know H.O.W. Mobile Clinic is now offering extended hours and more services.
The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities is introducing a new project designed to encourage institutional cooperation and increase college graduation rates.
With UNC still barred from litigation by the UNC Board of Governors, Duke Law School plans to open a First Amendment Clinic, which will give free legal representation.
A duchess, a princess and WHO leaders talked the importance of nurses via webcast for the Nursing Now launch, a global campaign hosted by the UNC School of Nursing and IntraHealth International.
The U.S. Department of Education is seeking public comment on how to assess if student loan borrowers meet the undue hardship standard for loan forgiveness.
"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 Criminal Justice Awareness and Action group (CJAA) believes a person is more than a crime. That's why it held a series of events this week to challenge students to consider how a criminal record's lasting effects.
Students at the University of North Texas are petitioning to have a new building named after a woman or a person of color. Despite over 50 percent of UNT's undergraduate student body identifying as people of color, no buildings on its campus are named after people of color. This controversy is reminiscent of the situation on UNC's campus during the 2015 renaming of Saunders Hall to Carolina Hall.
After the former director of basketball operations at the University of Louisville paid for prostitutes and lap dances for players and recruits, the NCAA stripped the university of their 2013 men's basketball national title. The NCAA upheld its decision to remove the title after Louisville appealed the original decision. Louisville plans to move forward in an honest and positive way.
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.
Preserving the old to celebrate the new. Elizabeth City State University plans to create an African-American Heritage Center on campus from a building steeped in history and culture.
A system-wide study presented to the UNC-system BOG reveals disparities between UNC-system schools' diversity and equal opportunity programs and policies. The study looked at efficiency, effectiveness and transparency and found that there was little system-wide uniformity in the way equal opportunity and diversity inclusion services are designed, implemented and tracked.
A new bipartisan bill in the U.S. Senate would give HBCUs in North Carolina more financial flexibility.
The Federal Pell Grant and Federal Work-Study Program, programs awarded based on students' financial needs, could be affected by Trump's new infrastructure proposal. The proposal is expected to spur $1.5 trillion in infrastructure investments.
In a letter posted to the university's website, John Jenkins, president of the University of Notre Dame, criticized the NCAA's decision to deny the appeal to restore the school’s 21 vacated football victories. In the letter, Jenkins alludes to UNC's academic scandal as one of "striking contrast."
The bipartisan proposal would require university leaders to certify they have reviewed any reports of sexual abuse perpetrated by university employees.
The U.S. Department of Education will not hear complaints from transgender students who are banned from using the bathroom that aligns with their gender identity.
“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.”
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