CHAPEL HILL (May 2, 2024) – Pro-Palestinian protesters crossed a line Tuesday. Yes, in response to atrocities committed by the militant group Hamas, Israelis have engaged in quite literal overkill among ...

RALEIGH (May 2, 2024) – In a state where 10,000+ teachers – 11.5% – left its public schools in 2023,1 Gov. Roy Cooper proposed a budget last week to rebuild ...

RALEIGH (April 25, 2024) – The NC General Assembly is back this week for its so-called “short” session to make adjustments for the second year of the state budget. And boy, ...

By Dr. Barbara K. Rimer Professor Emerita and Dean Emerita University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill CHAPEL HILL (April 25, 2024) – I am not a Tar Heel born and bred, as ...

RALEIGH (April 25, 2024) – As we approach a vote by the UNC Board of Governors next month to repeal a 2019 policy that requires UNC campuses to hire diversity ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: UNC Board of Governors Chair Randy Ramsey shared the following remarks about the UNC School of the Arts at the Board’s meeting there last week. WINSTON-SALEM (April 18, 2024) ...

RALEIGH (April 18, 2024) – Nearly 8 in 10 North Carolina voters support better pay raises for the state’s public school teachers next year. In a statewide poll conducted for Public ...

WINSTON-SALEM (April 18, 2024) – The UNC System will seek an additional $70 million in operating funds – or 1.9% – from the General Assembly this spring, largely to reward ...

RALEIGH (April 10, 2024) – Call it a well-earned smackdown. On the day Lee Roberts took office as Interim Chancellor at UNC-Chapel Hill in January, UNC System leaders sent the Chair ...

RALEIGH (April 10, 2024) – Sara Scanlon feels “steadily increasing pressure” to increase graduation rates among her students – whether they’ve mastered the material or not. In our latest installment of ...