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When is the best time for professors to send out course evaluations?

By Cate Byrne | March 26

New discussions about course evaluations examine when the best time is for students to complete them.

Female professors' concentration on service could prove detrimental to their salaries

By Taylor Buck | March 26

Research shows that female professors tend to take on more service than men, reducing the time they have to spend on research. These factors, combined ...

DOE no longer releasing weekly Title IX investigation updates

By Anna Pogarcic | March 26

The Office for Civil Rights used to publish a list of universities with ongoing Title IX investigations and provide details on which universities were ...

Chelsea Manning gives a speech in front of the Silent Sam monument during a rally on Saturday afternoon.

Chelsea Manning attended Silent Sam protest in Chapel Hill on Saturday

By Mark Burnett | March 25

“Obviously we got to close prisons, we got to deal with ICE, we got to deal with statues like this, we got to deal with white supremacy and all ...

UNC student groups want you to know that microaggressions are more than just insults

March 22

“Microaggressions can affect minority populations’ mental health because they end up internalizing the disdain of the dominant community,” said ...

UNC School of Medicine takes first in graduate school primary care program rankings

By Suzanne Blake | March 21

In a move from second place last year, the UNC School of Medicine was ranked first for their primary care program in U.S. News and World Report’s 2019 ...

Carolina For The Kids celebrates 20th year of Dance Marathon

By Grace Little | March 21

The annual 24-hour no-sleeping, no-sitting Dance Marathon is the culmination of a yearlong effort by Carolina For The Kids to raise money to support families ...

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UNC professor Robert Peet plans for retirement after 43 years of teaching

By Giselle Pagunuran | March 21

“I’ll have more time to work on my many research projects that will keep me busy,” professor Robert Peet said. “I have a lot of data I’ve ...

From left to right: Lauren Atkinson, Grace Clarke, Lauren Chamblee, and Sam White talk about homework together in Davis Library.

Group projects and how to troubleshoot them

By Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez | March 21

Although group projects are a core part of K-12 education, everyone has their grievances when it comes to collaborative work. So, do group projects work ...

Kathryn Heath, a women's leadership and career coach, spoke at the Bobby Boyd Leadership Lecture on Tuesday evening.

Get your red suits on ladies, Kathryn Heath wants women on top of the corporate ladder

By Brooke Bauman | March 20

When it comes to professional development, the "pink seat" often underestimates the worth of women in the workplace. That's why Kathryn Heath outlines ...

Lawyer Hugh Stevens presents the DTH's argument in court on Tuesday morning.

DTH's public record lawsuit against UNC goes to appeal, oral arguments

By Maria Elena Vizcaino | March 20

"This whole Title IX apparatus is predominantly conducted in secret, which in my view makes it all more important that we find out who has been ...

Carolina students enjoy the snow on campus on Jan. 17.

Survey shows Republicans have low confidence in higher education

By Ryan Smoot | March 20

According to a recent Gallup News poll, 26 percent of Republicans and 50 percent of Democrats have strong confidence in higher education.

HBCUs on the fringe: what NC's U.S. Rep. Walker and the government can do to support them

By Michael Meeks | March 18

North Carolina has its fair share of HBCUs, each with unique personalities. However, these schools face financial difficulty, and the government wants ...

A view of the Dean Dome and South Campus is seen from the Piper Cub.

COLUMN: I flew out of Horace Williams Airport, and it was amazing

By Mark Burnett | March 6

Recently I had the opportunity to fly out of Horace Williams Airport with local pilot and UNC alum Bob Epting. Though the airport is scheduled to close ...

College dropouts still have debt, are having trouble repaying it

By Mitra Norowzi | March 6

Almost half of students who enter college don't finish their degrees, and 3.9 million of these students have student loan debt.

UNC senior Rubi Franco Quiroz speaks on Sept. 18 at the DACA in Crisis event, a panel discussion comprised of lawyers, activists and students about how to support the undocumented and DACAmented community.

'It's been a real roller coaster': UNC attempts to help DACA recipients

By Anna Pogarcic | March 5

It is estimated North Carolina has about 25,000 DACA recipients, about 3,000 of which are enrolled in college. With the future of these students uncertain, ...

A new petition to save Horace Williams Airport already has over 400 signatures

By Mark Burnett | March 4

The fight to keep Chapel Hill's primary aviation education airport open continues as a petition of nearly 400 people hope to get the NC legislature involved. ...

UNC students participate in a self-portrait drawing activity at the Love Your Body event in the Student Union on Thursday night.

'Love Your Body' explores body positivity, combats social beauty standards

By Marine Elia | March 1

“I think on campuses we compete a lot with each other, and it’s really easy to kinda get caught up comparing yourself,” said junior Aryana Ainolhayat. Love ...

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UNC follows institutional peers, won't consider suspensions over protesting

By Taylor Buck | March 1

As students show solidarity with the victims of the Parkland, Fla. shooting through planned walk-outs, UNC states that admitted students participating ...

From left to right: UNC students Ethan Gilbreath, James Collette and Rory McFarlane smoke by the flagpole in Polk Place on Thursday afternoon.

Carolina's priceless Juul: UNC study finds e-cigarettes are not as healthy as they seem

By Kate Karstens | March 1

While the number of U.S. college students smoking cigarettes has been increasing since 1993 to the current 33 percent, the use of e-cigarettes has been ...