Senators voted 31-17 on Monday to pass a regulatory reform bill that will exempt UNC System institutions from local zoning and land-use regulations in Orange, Buncombe and Watauga counties. The provision builds on an existing exemption in Wake County for NC State, and comes amid local controversy over UNC Asheville’s planning for a public-private project […]
Speaking of Appalachian State, the Boone institution appears poised to get the UNC System’s permission to issue $19 million in tax-exempt bonds to help finance a new indoor practice facility for its football team. Officials are presenting the deal to the Board of Governors this week. It should save the university and its athletics department […]
Context is everything, and we have to look at whether ECU’s practices stand out amongst the system’s 16 universities. Compared with co-flagships UNC Chapel Hill and NC State, it does. Chapel Hill for the fall 2024 cohort offered admission to 15.3% of the 65,334 recent high school grads who put in an application. NC State […]
Legislators and UNC System officials are trying to help students of the system’s three western universities with their bills in the wake of Hurricane Helene. The second-round relief package included a $5.5 million allocation that will cover spring tuition (or its in-state equivalent) for all students at UNC Asheville, the institution hardest-hit by the storm. […]
Western Carolina University may have escaped damage from Hurricane Helene, but so many employees are coping with the storm’s fallout that the institution is waiting until at least Oct. 21 to resume classes. “In Cullowhee, we operate in a little bit of a bubble,” Provost Richard Starnes told campus trustees Thursday morning. “To the untrained […]
The former 230,000-square foot Corning building in Hickory is poised to be the key growth vehicle for App State in coming years.
