HILLSBOROUGH (September 22, 2025) – UNC-Chapel Hill’s former provost sued the university’s Board of Trustees Monday, saying the board repeatedly violated state open meetings and public records laws – and ...

RALEIGH (September 18, 2025) – Universities across the country are struggling to attract students due to shrinking birth rates. The UNC System is headed in the opposite direction. The system announced record ...

By Ed Samulski Cary Boshamer Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill CHAPEL HILL (August 6, 2025) – As a teenager in South Carolina applying to college in the ...

By Art Padilla When Vermont Connecticut Royster, the two-time Pulitzer winner to whom President Reagan awarded the Medal of Freedom, retired to North Carolina, I jumped at any opportunity to see ...

WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH (July 18, 2025) – The financial and political attacks on universities are both extreme and broad-based. The collateral damage being done to our nation’s scientific capabilities is still ...

RALEIGH (February 27, 2025) – For the ninth straight year, the UNC Board of Governors voted today to hold tuition constant at all 16 UNC System universities. For in-state students. North Carolina’s ...

RALEIGH (February 5, 2025) – After raucous demonstrations by pro-Palestinian protesters last spring at UNC-Chapel Hill and, to a lesser extent, other UNC System campuses, System officials are moving to ...

RALEIGH (January 30, 2025) – Contrary to a national narrative of skyrocketing tuition costs, the UNC System signaled clearly this week that it intends to hold tuition flat for the ...

RALEIGH (October 17, 2024) – Hurricane Helene inflicted tens of millions of dollars of damage on UNC System schools, but “nothing catastrophic,” UNC System officials said today. Jennifer Haygood, the System’s ...

RALEIGH (September 13, 2024) – People go where they feel welcome. The question, after the UNC Board of Governors repealed the UNC System’s policy on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, is whether ...