It is estimated North Carolina has about 25,000 DACA recipients, about 3,000 of which are enrolled in college. With the future of these students uncertain, North Carolina universities are taking a look at what resources they can offer.
Students subject to disciplinary action as a result of gun reform protests will not be penalized at many institutions.
Shots Fired on Campus, a program through the UNC-Chapel Hill Police Department, offers training so students know what to do in active shooter situations.
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.
U.S. Rep. David Price, D-N.C., and six other House Democrats are asking House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., to allow for debate to repeal Dickey Amendment and increase gun violence research.
True character is what somebody does when no one is looking, and how a newspaper handles controversy says a lot about its dedication to editorial freedom. UNC alum share their own experiences with controversy in the DTH newsroom.
“Everyone who works (at the DTH) is always young, and they’re always fresh,” Emily Steel, DTH alumna and current reporter at The New York Times, said. “For these people there never was a way things were done before because they’re the ones doing it now.”
Despite being out of session, the NC General Assembly continues conversations about gun control, Silent Sam and the Atlantic Coast Pipeline.
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.
Durham County District Attorney Roger Echols announced Tuesday he is dropping charges against the five remaining people accused of destroying a Confederate statue in Durham over the summer.
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.
The repeal of net neutrality could lead to content discrimination, even for some UNC students.
In the midst of a politically divided era, the UNC Institute of Politics hosted The Art of Disagreement to promote thoughtful debate.
According to a study by the Pew Research Center, 44 percent of Americans polled in 2017 responded that "there is a natural conflict between Islam and democracy."
The event focused on issues like voter mobilization, healthcare and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.
The North Carolina General Assembly touched on gerrymandering, the Moral March on Raleigh and more this week.
While Trump called for improvements to the community college sector, North Carolina community colleges have already started programs to help remedy many of Trump's concerns.
Partisan primaries, GenX, school funding, and the state's elections and ethics board were topics of discussion this week in the North Carolina General Assembly.
The American Association of State Colleges and Universities named sexual assault, campus free speech and DACA students among the top 10 higher education policy issues for 2018.
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