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NCI touts BOG-member support

The folks at NCInnovation want the world to know that despite their battle with UNC System Board of Governors member and former state Rep. Art Pope, their work has strong support from others in the system. The group put out a news release Tuesday quoting among others BOG member and...

By Ray Gronberg

March 12, 2025

Berger and Belichick

Senate leader Phil Berger has confirmed his role in the recruitment of UNC Chapel Hill head football coach Bill Belichick, as first reported by ESPN. “That was one of the most unusual calls that I have received since I’ve been elected to the Senate,” Berger said of the call he...

By Ray Gronberg

March 12, 2025

A warning to the UNC system

The Trump administration has warned the UNC System that it has to take “immediate and appropriate action” against any harassment of Jewish students that creates a hostile environment for them. The warning came in a March 10 letter to system President Peter Hans from Craig Trainor, the acting assistant director...

By Ray Gronberg

March 12, 2025

Poole leaves NCSEEA to work for UNC System President Peter Hans

Andrea Poole stepped down as executive director of the North Carolina State Education Assistance Authority to become chief of staff to UNC System President Peter Hans. Poole joined the authority in 2021 after working as vice president for strategic initiatives at the N.C. Community College System. She worked from 2013-19...

By Ray Gronberg

March 11, 2025

Task force to look at child care, early education in the state

Executive orders are the order of the day, and Gov. Josh Stein got in the spirit Monday with plans for a task force to study child care and early education. The group will be co-chaired by Lt. Gov. Rachel Hunt and Sen. Jim Burgin, a Republican from Harnett County. Its purpose is...

By Ray Gronberg

March 11, 2025

Target Belichick

A 4,100-word March 7 story by ESPN unearthed more details about the hiring of football Bill Belichick and dissension between UNC Chapel Hill board of trustee members and university officials. Perhaps the story’s main news involved Sen. Thom Tillis’ involvement in the hiring, which UNC fans hope will lead to...

By Welcome

March 11, 2025

UNC System adopts new protest policy

UNC’s Board of Governors has ratified a new campus-protest policy that requires protest organizers to give administrators at their campus 24 hours’ notice if they gather indoors or in designated outdoor areas. The notice requirement applies to anything other than “university sponsored instruction, classes or research,” and to any group...

By Ray Gronberg

March 3, 2025

Education goals

More North Carolinians in their prime working years are earning college degrees or post-high-school educational credentials, but the state still isn’t on track to meet its attainment goals. As of 2023, not quite 1.7 million of residents age 25 to 44 had a degree, completion certificate, license or some other...

By Ray Gronberg

February 24, 2025

UNC Chapel Hill lawsuit

UNC Chapel Hill is getting sued once again by a Raleigh attorney who contends it’s been breaking the state’s Public Records Law to hide its dealings with a law firm hired to advise the university on athletics matters. Filed Wednesday in Orange County Superior Court, lawyer David McKenzie’s suit alleges...

By Ray Gronberg

February 21, 2025

The arguing about where to put the Dean Dome’s replacement has already begun

In the that-didn’t-take-long department, there’s a petition circulating in Chapel Hill that opposes the idea of building UNC Chapel Hill’s next basketball arena somewhere on the former site of the university’s airport. It argues the project should go on “a campus-connected location” that among other things “ensures continued foot traffic...

By Ray Gronberg

February 20, 2025

UNCC scores $7.2M for measurement center

UNC Charlotte will get a $7.2 million gift to help pay for the work of the university’s Center for Precision Metrology, officials reported to campus trustees this week. The pledge comes from Graham Siddall, a native of Great Britain who’s considered a leading figure in the science of measurement, a field vital...

By Ray Gronberg

February 14, 2025

Community colleges’ Boost

With help from a $35.6 million foundation grant, N.C. Community Colleges leaders are launching an effort they think will help some students at 15 of their campuses finish their degrees and get into the workforce more quickly. Modeled on a City University of New York initiative, the system’s Boost program...

By Ray Gronberg

February 6, 2025

UNC System works on its 2025 wish lists

Going into this week’s Board of Governors meeting, UNC System officials and campuses are reckoning this will be another year of holding the line against any increase of in-state tuition. Which is not to say the same’s true for other kinds of tuition and fees. Seven of the system’s 16...

By Ray Gronberg

January 28, 2025

More dorms at UNC

UNC Chapel Hill trustees have given Chancellor Lee Roberts and his aides permission to spend up to $8 million to begin planning a new, 600-bed dormitory for a site somewhere on campus. Approved Thursday, the move is the first step in a broader initiative that could see the institution add...

By Ray Gronberg

January 27, 2025

UNC-CH’s yield rate: Too low?

Reader Travis Fain, late of WRAL, questioned Thursday’s Trib item on enrollment expansion at UNC Chapel Hill that reported that only 45.4% of recent high school grads enrolled there after receiving an admissions offer. That “seems low for a flagship,” he said. Actually, it’s pretty decent for public-system flagships. In...

By Ray Gronberg

January 27, 2025

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