Facing flat and in some cases declining enrollment numbers, UNC System leaders are developing a new model for funding universities that are less dependent on enrollment numbers.

Should accounting be considered part of the state’s STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) curriculum?

Gov. Roy Cooper’s administration outlined details of a new “digital equity” grant program on Tuesday. The initiative seeks applications from state agencies that want to use a share of $24 million in federal American Rescue Plan dollars.

The UNC Board of Governors voted last week to add 111 acres of prime real estate in Research Triangle Park to its “millennial campus” designation that paves the way for public-private partnership development.

The N.C. Division of Emergency Management is making progress on a school panic alarm program after a series of delays.

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About 68% of North Carolina residents earning a college degree online are doing so at an out-of-state institution. That could soon change as the UNC System launches a new initiative next year that will compete with online higher education powerhouses like Arizona State and Southern New Hampshire University.

Turning its attention to school discipline issues, an N.C. House education committee heard four success stories from across the state on Monday.

As the legislature held more no-vote sessions on Thursday before adjourning until late September, legislative Democrats held a news conference to call for immediate access to address a shortage of teachers as the new school year begins.

The N.C. House’s new Select Committee on Advancing Women in STEM kicked off Wednesday with a meeting at SAS Institute’s sprawling campus in Cary.

Attorney General Josh Stein filed a petition with the U.S. Department of Justice to allow student debt relief for former students of the defunct Charlotte School of Law. The for-profit law school shut down in 2017 following accreditation and other problems.

In an unusual response to N.C. Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls’ refusal to recuse herself in the Leandro case, attorneys for legislative leaders filed a request Tuesday asking the judges to remove her former client from the case.