“We are academics. We are scholars. We know our history. There’s a role for civil disobedience and for disobeying the law when it is unjust.” Professors, TAs and students both graduate and undergraduate have become groups of signatories on various letters protesting Silent Sam. With the letters being shared publicly, opposition to the statue's on-campus relocation has gleaned national support.
“If you try to be everything to everyone, you end up being nothing to anyone.”
Margaret Spellings, Dr. Bill Roper and Winston Crisp have given up their current positions within the UNC system this year.
On Monday morning, Chancellor Folt and the Board of Trustees officially made their recommendation to the Board of Governors about where to house Silent Sam, the heavily debated Confederate statue that was toppled in August.
The new building would be a center meant to contextualize UNC's history, Folt said at the Monday morning meeting.
Margaret Spellings hosted an informal conversation for media members the morning of Wednesday, Nov. 28. Spellings reflected on her time in North Carolina and answered questions from various media members about her resignation and future plans. The UNC-system president will officially resign on Mar. 1, 2019.
The survey attempts to discover the practical value of a UNC degree.
New education policy, if passed through government, could shape the future of Pell Grants and university research. Here's how.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield North Carolina announced last week that as part of a larger commitment to improving community health initiatives, the company will invest $800,000 in a new program within UNC’s School of Medicine aimed at improving access to primary care physicians in Rockingham County.
The UNC-system BOG met to present awards to two N.C. professors and accept an additional grant for students. Two UNC students spoke to the board about Silent Sam and online stalkers.
“It seems like the general consensus that academic freedom is the goal of the left, and academic suppression is the goal of the right. We also need to think about how to promote more diverse conversations on campuses, not have this just be the bastion of the liberal elite.”
In the original Board of Governors resolution, Chancellor Folt and the Board of Trustees were due to present a plan for Silent Sam's future to the BOG on Nov. 15.
BOG approved a $2 million grant to the board to establish the Hurricane Florence Emergency Grant Program for Postsecondary Students.
New chairperson to the National Assessment Governing Board, Beverly Perdue, looks forward to closing the nation’s achievement gap and ensuring that all students have access to a great education.
"I can't think of anyone I'd rather give the reins to than Bill Roper,” Margaret Spellings said.
“Chapel Hill pretends to be a village.”
The announcement comes exactly one week after UNC-system President Margaret Spellings' plan to leave her position was made public.
A group of universities and a community college district are suing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services over a policy that could potentially ban a large number of international students from the United States.
Students, academics, community members and political practitioners gathered in Wilson Library’s Pleasants Family Assembly Room on Saturday to discuss the current state and the future of education policy in North Carolina.
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