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N.C. Central University

FDA awards UNC and partner universities up to $50 million for new research center

By Akash Bhowmik | July 20

UNC, alongside other grant recipients, will receive up to $50 million from the Food and Drug Administration for the creation of a research center in the ...

U.S. Senate candidate Cheri Beasley visits NCCU's campus, speaks on abortion rights

By Maddie Singleton | September 29

UNC School of Nursing received bomb threat, building cleared after investigation

By Liv Reilly | August 8

N.C. Central launches new initiative to increase number of Black male educators

By Jenna Rupp | November 17

Location: Durham, N.C.

Type: four-year, public

Year founded: 1910

Total enrollment (fall 2014): 8,155

Undergraduate enrollment: 6,369

Undergraduate applicants (fall 2011): 6,369

Acceptance rate: 61 percent

Graduation rate (after four years, 2010): 14.8 percent

Sports nickname: Eagles

In-state undergraduate tuition and fees (2014-15): $3,450.57

Website: www.nccu.edu

UNC and NCCU host symposium on promoting anti-racism in business

By Amy Xu and Samuel Garzon | April 13

UNC-CH and NCCU's schools of business co-hosted the"Sustaining the Momentum of Anti-Racism in Business" symposium Friday. The event highlighted conversations ...

A former ECU chancellor is suing the UNC System. Here's what you need to know.

By Maydha Devarajan | July 6

Earlier in June, former ECU Chancellor Cecil Staton filed a lawsuit against the UNC System over his resignation in March 2019. Here’s what you need ...

UNC System's historically minority-serving universities given $6 million for COVID-19 research

By Emma Geis | June 11

The UNC System's six historically minority-serving institutions are receiving $1 million each from the N.C. Policy Collaboratory to support COVID-19 related ...

Over a year after being killed by a security guard, DeAndre Ballard is not forgotten

By Sofia Lesnewski | October 27

Students at NCCU remember the death of DeAndre Ballard a year later.

Lawsuit accuses NCCU chancellor and two BOG members of misconduct

By Emily Davis | April 26

Former NCCU vice chancellor for administration and finance, Benjamin Durant, alleges he was wrongfully terminated by NCCU Chancellor Johnson Akinleye, ...

'So much bigger than me': UNC system's first African-American president talks election, future

By Emily Davis | April 19

Rising senior at North Carolina Central University Bettylenah Njaramba will be sworn as the president of The University of North Carolina Association ...

UNC system happenings for April 16, 2018

By Ana Irizarry | April 15

The new president of the UNC-system student body president, elected Wednesday, is Bettylenah Njaramba, a junior at N.C. Central University. Drugs ...

UNC-system President Margaret Spellings (left) sits next to chairperson Lou Bissette (right) during a September 2017 UNC Board of Governors meeting.

BOG approves business school tuition increases, other school fees

By Blake Weaver | March 27

The UNC-system Board of Governors approved increases in tuition and fees for certain undergraduates at some UNC-system campuses. See if this applies to ...

NCCU officially joins Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory as first HBCU

By Olivia Slagle | January 31

Minority students, older students and former military students from NCCU that have contributed for years will now see increased opportunities as official ...

NCCU School of Law's accreditation under review by ABA

By Emily Davis | January 22

N.C. Central University's School of Law is under threat of losing its accreditation after examination by the American Bar Association.

Protestors created a variety of signs and posters before the Sebastian Gorka's November speech on campus.

NC ranked top state for campus free speech despite controversial BOG policy

By Georgia Wieland-Stanford | January 21

Although a December study by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education ranked North Carolina as best in the nation for campus free speech, debate ...

Economic impact of HBCUs is almost $15 billion, study finds

By Lucas Risinger | November 27

American Historically Black Colleges and Universities contribute $14.8 billion to the U.S. economy, according to a new study.

Here's what the UNC-system has been up to this summer

By Danielle Chemtob | August 21

The controversy over the fate of the UNC Center for Civil Rights' ability to litigate dominated the UNC Board of Governors’ agenda in the past few meetings, ...

Trump order comes amid DeVos' controversial HBCU comments

By Paige Colpo | March 8

Between Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’ comments and an executive order issued Feb. 28, historically black colleges and universities are in the ...

"Soft Diplomacy: Quilting Cultural Diplomacy in Liberia" will be on exhibit at Western Carolina University until May. Photo Courtesy of Jill Jacobs.

UNC-system happenings for Feb. 14, 2017

By Johanna Cano | February 13

The exhibit “Soft Diplomacy: Quilting Cultural Diplomacy in Liberia” will be on display at Western Carolina University’s Fine Art Museum through ...

UNC-system happenings for Oct. 26

By Marisa Bakker and Anica Midthun | October 26

Sixteen students from UNC-Pembroke lent a helping hand to three families in South Carolina who were affected by the early October flooding.