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 ...

CONCORD (April 4, 2024) – To Natalia Mejia, teachers should be treated like the professionals they are. In the latest installment of our Teachers Talk series, the ESL teacher at C.C. ...

RALEIGH (April 4, 2024) – If you don’t see a connection between investment in public education and North Carolina’s economy, take it from someone who has. “Public education is critically important ...

RALEIGH (March 28, 2024) – A state House committee acknowledged this week what was painfully clear even two years ago: North Carolina’s pay for teachers hasn’t kept up with inflation. The ...

This story was first published by The Assembly, a statewide digital magazine in North Carolina. UNC System President Bill Friday scaled back basketball after players shaved points. Now a gambling executive ...