Schools
- UNC System works to make online betterCHAPEL HILL â UNC System officials know many students werenât happy with the makeshift courses they abruptly shifted to take online this spring due to the coronavirus pandemic. So, not knowing ...Read more
- UNC System freezes tuition for 2020-21CHAPEL HILL (May 20, 2020) â The UNC Systemâs governing board voted Wednesday to freeze tuition and fees at North Carolinaâs 16 public universities for 2020-21. Because state law locks tuition ...Read more
- BOG talks sanctions for rogue members; Fetzer resignsCHAPEL HILL (May 20, 2020) â After scandals involving trustees who tried to influence a student election and a member who conducted his own investigations of a job candidate and ...Read more
- The UNC Systemâs challenges and opportunitiesCHAPEL HILL â Randy Ramsey doesnât shy away from discussing the challenges facing the University of North Carolina System. âThere are a lot of challenges facing the System,â the Chair of ...Read more
- Ramsey: Calm and directCHAPEL HILL â Randy Ramsey openly acknowledges thereâs been strife on the UNC Board of Governors. But the Chair of the 24-person board says every member wants whatâs best for the ...Read more
- Ramsey: Most important decision of the decadeUNC System InterimPresident Bill Roper CHAPEL HILL â The search for a new UNC System president has been delayed by the coronavirus pandemic, officials said last week. But a practiced ...Read more
- Colleges to help communities âgrow their ownâ teachersRALEIGH â It had nothing to do with the coronavirus, but the State Board of Community Colleges took an important step last week to expand North Carolinaâs pipeline of future ...Read more
- Mother of invention: UNC System responds to COVID-19CHAPEL HILL â At the beginning of the 2019-20 academic year on University of North Carolina campuses, few would have predicted the year would end in a global pandemic. Yet here ...Read more
- Caudill: If ever basic research matteredâŚBy W. Lowry Caudill CHAPEL HILL â We need an answer for coronavirus in a hurry. Scientific research generally doesnât happen in a hurry. So thank goodness for the work Dr. Ralph Baric ...Read more
- Roper: âJust get the budget doneâCHAPEL HILL â Legislative leaders and Gov. Roy Cooper think theyâre scoring political points in their standoff over the 2019-21 state budget, which still hasnât been adopted more than six ...Read more