At their April 4 meeting, Faculty Executive Committee members continued their conversation on faculty salary inequities, and also spoke about the University's inquiry into journalism faculty emails regarding the $25 million Hussman school donor agreement.
Read More »As the UNC men's basketball team prepares to meet Duke in the Final Four on Saturday, students reacted with their plans to watch the game and their thoughts on the team's NCAA Tournament run thus far.
Read More »The UNC System lost money on multiple fronts in the Silent Sam settlements. Even after the $2.5 million settlement with the North Carolina Sons of Confederate Veterans was overturned, money from the "Monument Trust" was still used to pay University counsel, according to invoices from the firm Womble Bond Dickinson provided to The Daily Tar Heel. Invoices obtained by the DTH show that the UNC System paid over $243,338.14 to counsel for “professional services rendered” on the settlements — $119,753.14 through Nov. 30, 2019 and $123,585 as late as July 31, 2020.
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Two candidates are running to be the president of the Graduate and Professional Student Government: Theodore Nollert and Zachary Boyce. The election is on Tuesday.
Read More »On Feb. 9, UNC launched the Heels Care Network, a collection of university-wide mental health resources for students, staff, faculty and other members of the campus community. “We realize there is no single solution here, but this is an important step forward,” Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz said in an email. “We are committed to continuing this work until everyone in our community knows they are never alone.”
Read More »Student Body President candidate Sage Staley's campaign slogan, “Your Legacy. Our Legacy. Carolina,” encompasses what she hopes to do as student body president. Key issues on Staley's platform include expanding student government, increasing representation for graduate students, supporting students' mental health and combatting the pandemic.
Read More »Four cultural centers — the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History, the Asian American Center, the Carolina Latinx Center and the American Indian Center — have come together in a new partnership. Called the UNC Alliance, the partnership is for the centers to collaborate to examine crucial issues of equity and justice. “We have a very big vision,” Krupal Amin, associate director of the AAC, said.
Read More »In 2017, Campaign for Carolina set a goal of raising $4.25 billion by Dec. 31, 2022. Thursday, UNC announced that the campaign has reached the $4.25 billion goal a year early, which will go toward scholarships, medical advancements, fellowship programs and infrastructure improvements.
Read More »Fall 2019 was the last time UNC had a fully in-person semester. After over a year of operating remotely, students and faculty have had to adjust back to in-person learning, while balancing new teaching formats brought on by the virtual transition.
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“We want to increase the exposure of the Cherokee language to the general public, so people can get to know this language,” Shiyue Zhang, one of the developers of the program, said.
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