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 […]
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 […]
