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Elizabeth City State sees a stable financial future

By Sarah Brown | August 19

As the search for a new chancellor at Elizabeth City State University continues, UNC-system leaders are simultaneously working to devise new strategies ...

UNC-system happenings for August 19, 2014

By Hayley Fowler | August 19

Around 400 people attended a peaceful protest Monday at N.C. Agricultural and Technical State University over the Aug. 9 shooting death of 18-year-old ...

UNC-system happenings for June 18-25

By Hannah Shaw | June 18

UNC-Wilmington is weighing its options after a U.S. District Court Judge ordered the university to pay over $700,000 in legal fees for a professor’s ...

UNC Board of Governors will vote on out-of-state tuition rates

By Amy Tsai | June 16

In a departure from precedent, last year the N.C. General Assembly bypassed the UNC-system Board of Governors and mandated steep out-of-state tuition ...

UNC system happenings for June 12-18

By Amy Tsai | June 9

UNC-Wilmington named William Sederburg, a former Michigan state Senator and retired Commissioner of the Utah System of Higher Education, its interim chancellor ...

NC Senate proposes no new budget cuts to UNC system

By Amy Tsai | June 2

After years of budget cuts, the UNC system would see no major reductions under the N.C. Senate’s budget proposal, finalized last week.

UNC system withstands pressures from changing political landscape

By Sarah Brown | June 2

In its first 37 years, the multi-campus UNC system never experienced the financial strains it has been grappling with since the 2008 recession.

Administrator-student ratio skewed at UNC

By Sarah Chaney | April 24

The University is like an elephant, Joe Templeton said.

N.C. home to 80 counties with food deserts

By Hayley Fowler | April 24

Some people in North Carolina are forced to turn to the nearest corner store or fast food restaurant when hungry.

Allison Tierney, a Master of Fine Arts graduate student, uses recycled material in her work.

UNC's Bull’s Head Bookshop only trade bookstore in system

April 21

The Bull’s Head Bookshop is an oddity in the UNC system.

UNC-system board wants more spending oversight in athletics

By Paul Best | April 20

The finances of system schools’ athletic programs will soon be more closely reviewed by various levels of administration.

UNC-system student government leaders head to DC

By Ben Moffat | April 16

Student government representatives across North Carolina traveled to the nation’s capitol Sunday and Monday to lobby for student issues.

UNC-system sees more women chancellors

By Hayley Fowler | April 14

N.C. Central University Chancellor Debra Saunders-White has always enjoyed being the only woman in the room.

East Carolina University senior runs for state office

By Sharon Nunn | April 14

East Carolina University senior Uriah Ward is running for the state House of Representatives seat in his district, a democrat taking on the ...

UNC-system Board of Governors seek financial aid solution

By Madeline Will | April 13

When UNC-CH students pay next year’s tuition bill, nearly a quarter of the check will go toward subsidizing other students’ education.

UNC-system happenings for April 7-11, 2014

By Michelle Neeley | April 10

Winston-Salem State University’s chancellor, Donald Julian Reaves, will step down from his position at the end of 2014.

UNC-system Board of Governors work for internal changes

By Madeline Will | April 9

When members of the UNC-system Board of Governors sit down in meetings today and Friday, they’ll have reviewed hundreds of pages of materials.

Group works to match system drug rules to state law

By Jamie Strassman | April 8

Last updated in 2012, the UNC-system drug policy might be in for serious revisions because of students right here at UNC.

Association of Student Governments holds last meeting of 2013-14

By Madeline Will | April 6

When N.C. State University Student Body President Alex Parker was sworn in this weekend as next year’s president of the UNC-system Association ...

UNC-system happenings for March 31 through April 4

By Kris Brown | April 3

The death of a UNC-Charlotte student is calling residence hall safety standards into question.