The school aims to clarify guidelines after a secret recording controversy and growing fear of surveillance.

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Chris Clemens accused the trustees of "hiding matters of grave public concern,” including tenure debates, using a Signal group and closed session.

Chancellor Lee Roberts said that the university is reviewing the school after faculty and administrative turnover in the past year.

For Lou Horton and her husband, Chantal was a singular catastrophe and the yearslong culmination of watching their situation grow more precarious.

Jordan Green wins the August Sidney Award for his feature in The Assembly, “I’ve Seen How the Neo-Nazi Movement Is Escalating. You Should Worry.” In early 2024, Green sat in a hotel room with his wife...

North Carolina universities are partnering with ChatGPT and Google, and some have created new policies about using AI platforms.

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President Peter Hans said in an interview he aims to create a ‘streamlined, non-ideological’ accreditor with five other southern states.

Two U.S. House committee chairmen say Duke's partner school is a “direct extension of the Chinese military and intelligence apparatus.”

The "never resident" list appears to include some longtime residents, while other voters appear in two different challenge categories.

An Assembly analysis finds UNC football has already set aside millions of dollars to bolster incoming head coach Bill Belichick and the team.

“No one has ever said that there is anything unique about a couple of vowels in Durham,” says Walt Wolfram, a North Carolina linguist.

The Assembly has been selected as one of six newsrooms in the first cohort of the NOTUS Washington Bureau Initiative.

The ruling in the first Racial Justice Act evidentiary hearing in more than a decade will have implications for the death penalty in N.C.

Defense secretary orders Fort Liberty to become Fort Bragg again — but this time it will be Fort Roland L. Bragg, in honor of a WWII hero

In a memo sent after UNC-CH hired Bill Belichick, the system's leader said trustees' actions around athletics "create substantial legal risk."

As the White House's policy changes hit colleges, lobbyist Elizabeth Morra says the UNC System is taking a wait-and-see approach.

A review of the latest data shows the state’s largest airports are hurting for air traffic controllers, a federal job that’s recently come under scrutiny.

Dozens of Duke University students signed up for a free trip to China. Even the university was surprised by what happened when they got there.

The untold story behind "Did Duke Win?"—and how a Duke student accidentally made UNC-Chapel Hill basketball fans’ favorite website.

The untold story behind "Did Duke Win?"—and how a Duke student accidentally made UNC-Chapel Hill basketball fans’ favorite website.

Nearly everyone backs the science of reading. Why did it take eight years to update the UNC System's literacy curriculum?

Rockingham County Sheriff Sam Page helped shape the anti-immigration agenda that will define Donald Trump’s second term.

Last year, a state board said overseas voters didn’t need to provide photo ID. Now he's want ballots from Democratic counties tossed.

A look at H-1B visa applications from North Carolina colleges and universities. Plus, we highlight job moves and bricks.

All the data you wanted about where North Carolina legislators went to college, plus reader feedback and a re-introduction to The Quad.

A superior court judge will begin a hearing next week in a death row case that could affect other Racial Justice Act claims.

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At least six trustees prodded university employees for information on specific applicants or the admissions process, text messages showed.

A desire for inclusivity spurred a North Carolina man to make Black Santas a holiday tradition. Santas Just Like Me is in its 12th season.

At least six trustees prodded university employees for information on specific applicants or the admissions process, text messages showed.