Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos seeks to change the way public universities are required to handle sexual misconduct cases, in some cases putting additional pressure on the accusing party.
Here's a summary of the Board of Trustees and Board of Governors meetings following the Silent Sam protests.
Chancellor Carol Folt and the Board of Trustees members must formulate a plan for Silent Sam’s future by November 15.
We just keep getting better — literally. We checked. UNC-Chapel Hill has been ranked 30th in the world in the 2018 Academic Ranking of World Universities by the ShanghaiRanking Consultancy, moving up three slots from last year's 33rd ranking. Out of public universities in the United States, UNC is ranked ninth.
In the week following Silent Sam's forced removal on Aug. 20, questions over what will become of the statue have centered on the interpretation of N.C. Senate Bill 22.
In an update sent by UNC Media Relations at 9:52 p.m. on Saturday, the 11 individuals that have been arrested during this week's protests of Silent Sam have been identified.
Chancellor Folt held a press conference on Thursday to discuss the aftermath of Monday night’s Silent Sam protest, which saw the Confederate monument pulled down from its pedestal. In addition to Folt’s comments, several more members of the UNC-system Board of Governors have spoken out.
The N.C. Historical Commission voted not to remove or relocate the three Confederate statues in Raleigh’s Capitol Square. Instead, the commission passed a resolution to add plaques contextualizing slavery’s role in the Civil War and recommended the addition of monuments honoring African-Americans.
After releasing a short statement Monday night following the Silent Sam protest where the Confederate monument was forcibly removed by demonstrators, UNC has released an updated statement.
Three of the UNC Board of Governors Special Committees met on Tuesday. These were the first official meetings for these newly formed special committees. Here’s what you need to know:
The N.C. Promise Plan is taking effect at three UNC-System universities – UNC Pembroke, Western Carolina University and Elizabeth City State University – and lowering their tuition costs somewhere in the range between two to three thousand dollars.
Many students are coming back from summer break to find changes to higher education policy.
Jump back into the late 1980s at UNC with these clips from the DTH archives about the late C.D. Spangler.
“He will be remembered as a gifted business leader, a compassionate philanthropist, and above all as a public servant who answered the call of the University at a critical time in its history."
The scholarship offers full support for graduate study at the University of Cambridge.
As of July 2, the campaign has raised $2.12 billion, garnered 152,524 donors and received 290,083 gifts. The goal of the fundraiser is to raise $4.25 billion by December 31, 2022.
A graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has received a fellowship to study health policy at the Gillings School of Public Health.
Former NCCU vice chancellor for administration and finance, Benjamin Durant, alleges he was wrongfully terminated by NCCU Chancellor Johnson Akinleye, who was responsible for the misappropriation of state funds.
An investigative report on the university’s student organizations after the events in Charlottesville, V.A. in August 2017 found two student organizations called The Ku Klux Klan that existed in the early 1900s.
Ohio State University is rolling out an almost $19 million plan to expand wireless access to the university's football stadium, while UNC is increasing its number of wireless access points.
The rivals are joining forces to make a special Rivalry Edition (both on-campus and online Feb. 20) and to see which student media program can raise the most money between Feb. 1 and 20.
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