CHAPEL HILL (April 22, 2021) – The UNC Board of Governors voted today to allow the UNC System’s five Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to raise enrollment of out-of-state ...

CARY (April 14, 2021) – In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and learning losses among the state’s most vulnerable students, North Carolina needs to double down on early-childhood education ...

RALEIGH (April 9, 2021) – A proposal that surfaced last week to name state legislators to the UNC Board of Governors would further politicize a board that’s already overly politicized. It’s ...

CHAPEL HILL – There’s a case to be made for raising the limit on out-of-state students at some UNC System campuses. “I’ve supported increasing the cap on out-of-state students in their ...

RALEIGH (March 31, 2021) – State legislators made the UNC System Board of Governors slightly more diverse with their appointments this month, increasing the number of female, Black and Democratic ...

RALEIGH (March 31, 2021) – Gov. Roy Cooper’s proposed state budget for 2021-23 would award long-overdue raises to educators and put a $4.7 billion bond issue on the ballot to ...

By Buck Goldstein A college degree is worth a decade of life. That’s according to a pair of economists, one a Nobel laureate, who first sounded the alarm on “deaths of ...

CHAPEL HILL (March 24, 2021) – North Carolina’s public universities have stepped up in oh-so-many ways to combat the coronavirus pandemic, UNC System President Peter Hans says. “I’m so proud of ...

CHAPEL HILL (March 24, 2021) – Even the clouds of the coronavirus pandemic have had some silver linings. “The most obvious advancement during the pandemic has been the improvement in our ...

CHAPEL HILL (March 17, 2021) – UNC System schools learned some hard lessons when they tried to resume classes in person last fall. But they’re now applying those lessons, UNC ...