RALEIGH (May 8, 2024) – There’s a process to choose chancellors at UNC System campuses. Follow it. If there was any doubt university leadership has become hyper-politicized in recent years, state House ...

RALEIGH (May 8, 2024) – The good news: North Carolina is improving its pitiful starting pay for public school teachers. The bad news: North Carolina has still slipped compared to other ...

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 ...