Dr. Kiran Asher is a professor of women, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Massachusetts.

The federal trademark infringement complaint claims The Bennett College National Alumnae Association (BCNAA) is illegally capitalizing on its name, logo, and reputation.

Faculty across the UNC System are expressing increased concerns that their safety is at risk following the new UNC System policy that all class syllabi be posted in an online database.

UNC System President Peter Hans' decision puts North Carolina in league with other Southern states like Florida and Texas, which legislatively mandate syllabi to be public records.

The Trump endorsement is highly coveted in competitive Republican primaries.

Two years after the US Supreme Court outlawed race conscious admissions, Carolina's incoming classes have had 25% fewer Black students. After administrators eliminated DEI support programs, students w...

The $2.25M contract was for 25 Chevrolet Tahoes

Price said Duke does not intend to comment publicly on whether it will accept or reject the compact and told faculty members its strategy of “silence” is intentional.

Gray Byrd had submitted a speech responding to the prompt "striving to excel" — part of the school motto — that included the line "transgender people are facing new levels of violence each day, and th...

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In a two-part series, student activists reflect on their lives one year since UNC-Chapel Hill Polk Place protest. UNC student Brendan Rosenblum was one of the fraternity brothers who held up the Ameri...

In a two-part series, student activists reflect on their lives one year since UNC-Chapel Hill Polk Place protest. UNC student Laura Saavedra Forero shares her personal journey in activism leading up t...

The statement came a day after Harvard University sued the administration over its decision to freeze billions of dollars in federal funding, following the school’s refusal to submit to a list of dema...

Art Pope, a leader in the North Carolina Republican Party, criticizes Donald Trump's tariffs.

Members of the NC House Freedom Caucus filed legislation that would ban access to abortion in most cases, including those where a woman is a victim of rape or incest.

A judge challenging the outcome of his North Carolina Supreme Court race was photographed wearing Confederate military garb and posing before a Confederate battle flag when he was a member of a colleg...

UNC professors who supported the initiative when others derided it are resigning and denouncing its leader. It’s an ironic turn for a civil discourse school.

The M/V Silver Lake hits the shoal in Big Foot Slough in the Pamlico Sound just outside Ocracoke. Photo: C. Leinbach By Connie Leinbach Passengers from Ocracoke to Swan Quarter Thursday afternoon o…

North Carolina's hiring of Bill Belichick was the stunner of the college football year. Here's how the Tar Heels pulled it off.

A rundown of where North Carolina's Congressional delegation stands on Ukraine, as of Monday, and how those views may have changed after Friday's contentious meeting between Trump and Zelensky.

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has been eager to propose federal budget cuts that purport to save taxpayers money, but as the proposed cuts trickle down to the neighborhood level — li...

A sudden loss of jobs at the National Park Service has some terminated archaeologists rethinking a life of public service.

Even as they praise the president’s unilateral actions to slash federal spending, G.O.P. lawmakers have quietly moved to seek carve outs or exemptions for their own constituents.

UNC Press Director John Sherer recently spoke with WUNC higher education reporter Brianna Atkinson about the dangers of silencing authors and the UNC Press' call for collective action against censorsh...

A coalition of 22 attorneys general sued the federal government, claiming that the $4 billion in cuts would “grind to a halt” studies on cancer, heart disease and other conditions.

North Carolina's top research universities could lose millions of dollars in support if a Trump administration revision to funding from the National Institutes of Health holds up.

Church volunteers have played a big role in the wake of Hurricane Helene. But for some survivors, the accompanying proselytizing feels unwanted.

Grants from the National Institutes of Health come with additional money for overhead. A planned $4 billion cut would leave colleges with large budget gaps.

A Wake County Superior Court judge has ruled against Republican candidate Jefferson Griffin, who is trying to invalidate more than 65,000 ballots in the race for a seat on the North Carolina Supreme C...

Musk and other right-wing tech figures have been on a campaign to delegitimize the digital encyclopedia. What happens if they succeed?

An executive order by the President Donald Trump's administrations ordered a stop to refugee resettlement and federal funding to refugee aid organizations.

Tennessee lawmakers have established a task force to review federal education funding, risking money for low-income schools and special ed.

28 year old Capt. Rebecca Lobach was a crew member of the Black Hawk helicopter that collided with a passenger jet above the Potomac River.

The Army released the identity of the third crew member aboard the Black Hawk helicopter involved in the deadly airport crash near DCA as Capt. Rebecca Lobach, an aviation officer and past ROTC cadet....

Contributors to Jefferson Griffin's legal expense fund include a judge on the North Carolina Court of Appeals, which could end up handling Griffin's lawsuit to invalidate more than 65,000 ballots in h...

On his first day in office this week, President Donald Trump pardoned all rioters at the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Jason Riddle served time in jail for his participation in the 2021 riot.

Republican Jefferson Griffin is trying to overturn his election loss by asking the North Carolina Supreme Court to toss 5,500 military and overseas absentee ballots. He used the same method to vote in...

Attorney Craig Schauer, who represents Republican state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin, went before a Wake County judge earlier this week without opposing counsel present to get an order bl...

Republican candidate Jefferson Griffin is getting what he wanted: To have the heavily conservative state Supreme Court decide whether to invalidate more than 60,000 ballots and possibly reverse his el...

On his final day in office, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has commuted the death row sentences of 15 people to life without parole.

Judge Richard E. Myers II of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina has denied Republican candidate Jefferson Griffin's request for a temporary restraining order to block c...

An eminent geologist, he argued against putting condos and hotels on vulnerable coastal landscapes. Environmentalists applauded; many others didn’t.

This month, Durham Public Schools is rotating bus service. Next, the district could create family responsibility zones and express bus stops that would alter service for about 2,000 students. District...

NASCAR's Cup Series will return to Winston-Salem's Bowman Gray Stadium for the first time since 1971 in February. The Clash is already sold-out.