CHAPEL HILL (Nov. 25, 2020) – Over the next few months, UNC System officials will consider relaxing their 18% cap on out-of-state admissions at some of the system’s 16 universities. As ...

CHAPEL HILL (Nov. 19, 2020) – Anticipating a difficult budget year, the UNC System Board of Governors adopted budget and legislative priorities for 2021-22 today that reflect the core mission ...

CHAPEL HILL (Nov. 18, 2020) – Transfer students – from community colleges or from other UNC System schools – make up a growing percentage of UNC System students. Some 57,000, ...

RALEIGH – NC State University learned quite a bit about managing through the coronavirus pandemic this fall. “The first thing we learned is that we can educate students safely in the ...

RALEIGH – The biggest heartache of fall semester, NC State University Chancellor Randy Woodson says, was telling students to go home after they’d lived on campus just three weeks. “It’s that ...

RALEIGH (Nov. 6, 2020) – The more things change – even after millions in campaign spending – the more they stay the same: Democrat Roy Cooper will remain governor, and ...

By Buck Goldstein It’s a strange time to be teaching. I am hundreds of miles from my campus in Chapel Hill, and it couldn’t matter less. The phenomenal guest speakers we’ve ...

CHAPEL HILL (Oct. 22, 2020) – After multiple episodes of micromanagement and rogue investigations by members of the UNC Board of Governors and campus trustees, the Board of Governors adopted ...

The 2020 election has enormous implications both for higher education and our country as a whole. If you’ve already voted, as more than 3.6 million North Carolinians have,1 we thank you. If ...

GREENSBORO – North Carolinians might not think of New Zealand as a bluegrass hot spot. But that’s where UNC Greensboro-trained Catherine “BB” Bowness first picked up the banjo. And pandemic or ...