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Student Action with Workers, UNC still don’t see eye to eye

By Sara Salinas | March 19

The Student Action with Workers group didn’t get the change it was hoping for at a meeting attended by Chancellor Carol Folt on Wednesday.

Famous scientist given honorary UNC degree in Scotland

By Karli Krasnipol | March 18

For Peter Higgs, it was theorizing about a subatomic particle in the 1960s that earned him an honorary degree from UNC.

Faculty respond to Board of Governors decision to close poverty center

By Megan Morris | February 27

Chancellor Carol Folt raced to Friday’s Faculty Council meeting from the Board of Governors meeting in Charlotte, where members decided to close UNC ...

Freshmen Trevor Doane (right) and Megan NcNeill play soccer in the snow on Ehringhaus fields Tuesday. Classes were canceled at 2:30 p.m.

Sudden snow surprises UNC

By Bradley Saacks | February 24

Even 3,000 miles away, Chancellor Carol Folt was still involved in the decision not to cancel classes until late in the day Tuesday — but she was not ...

Student leaders dine with Carol Folt, discuss diversity

By Langston Taylor | January 28

Chancellor Carol Folt, several administrators and faculty ate dinner with nearly 40 invited student leaders to plan better communication among campus ...

Contextualized grading debate an old one

By Sara Salinas | January 21

As faculty and students gear up for a semester-long discussion of contextualized grading at UNC, a decades-long conversation will likely see a resolution. ...

Faculty headed to NCAA meeting

By Sarah Kaylan Butler | January 14

The Faculty Athletics Committee is becoming increasingly involved in giving input to ACC and NCAA conference proposals and discussed upcoming proposals ...

Bradley Saacks is the University Editor. He is a junior journalism major from Cary.

Column: This could have been over long ago

By Bradley Saacks | January 6

On Dec. 30 I spent eight hours at UNC’s General Administration building for the court-ordered mediation between the University and 10 news organizations, ...

Gene Chizik, who previously worked as UNC's defensive coordinator and coached at Texas under Mack Brown, is returning to the position next season.

Gene Chizik possible next defensive coordinator

By Pat James | January 6

During the 2014 football season, the North Carolina defense was torched week in and week out — finishing the season ranked No. 117 in total defense ...

Folt postpones contextualized transcripts over student concerns

By Bradley Saacks | December 3

Contextualized transcripts will not be implemented for at least another semester, after Chancellor Carol Folt decided there were too many concerns about ...

News groups suing UNC for public records

By Jane Wester | November 25

The Daily Tar Heel and nine other media organizations filed a suit against the University Monday for the release of personnel records for employees facing ...

Faculty Council focuses on core values in response to Wainstein report

By Katie Reeder | November 21

Faculty members have been in an identity crisis since the release of the Wainstein Report a month ago.

The National Pan-Hellenic Council hosted their annual step show Thursday at Memorial Hall.

Panel criticizes Wainstein report’s public interpretation

By Jenn Morrison | November 14

In the wake of Kenneth Wainstein’s investigation, students, faculty and administrators are concerned that some interpretations of his report have raised ...

UNC makes first investment in 10-year academic support plan

By Liz Bell | November 13

When Kenneth Wainstein’s independent investigation revealed the extent of academic advisers’ involvement in a decades-long athletic-academic scandal, ...

Faculty Council suggest solutions to academic problems

By Harvey Ye | November 3

A week after the release of Kenneth Wainstein’s investigation report on the academic scandal, the members of the UNC Faculty Council assembled to discuss ...

University adds travel limits due to Ebola

By Langston Taylor | October 30

UNC and UNC Health Care prohibited all University-sponsored travel to Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone and asked that students and staff avoid personal ...