Orange County
Accountability Assembly Addresses a Mental Health Crisis and Criminal Justice Reform in Orange County
At a May assembly at Chapel Hill’s St. Thomas More Catholic Church, more than 300 residents received updates on mental health care for members of the county’s Spanish-speaking community and ongoing work around criminal justice reform.
UNC System Faculty, Staff Bristle as Legislature Targets DEI Efforts
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion efforts and training on UNC System campuses is in jeopardy, employees say.
UNC Housekeepers Demand Fair Pay, Working Conditions
UNC housekeepers are once again demanding fair pay and better treatment. Their action aims to meet immediate needs but also to take down North Carolina’s restrictive anti-union legislation, a relic of the Jim Crow era.
Quickbait: Equity in Higher Education
Duke, UNC-Chapel Hill, and NC State each trail the state average for percentage of Black faculty.
UNC-Chapel Hill Faculty Pass a Resolution as Tensions Continue Over Free Speech
The defiant resolution affirms the right of faculty members to speak freely and the university’s duty to protect their speech.
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UNC-Chapel Hill a Finalist for National “Most Secretive Public Agency” Award
Other finalists for the award include the Arizona Senate, the US Food and Drug Administration, Utah’s Department of Corrections and the City of Huntsville, Alabama and its police department.
Documents Show New Details in “Sweeping and Disturbing” Faculty Investigation
Documents released last week show the probe went beyond reading faculty members’ emails to searching backup systems on their computers. It may have included as many as 22 separate faculty members.
The Department of Justice Has Finally Opened an Investigation into the 1970 Murder of James Lewis Cates Jr.
In 1970, the Black 22-year-old Chapel Hill resident was murdered by a Durham-based white supremacist group on UNC-Chapel Hill’s campus.
UNC-Chapel Hill Makes List of Ten Worst Colleges for Free Speech
The non-partisan Foundation for Individual Rights in Education dedicated to free speech and academic freedom on campuses cited last year’s controversy over the university’s botched hiring of Nikole Hannah-Jones.
UNC Alumni Magazine’s Decision to Cancel Story Examining University Controversies Raises Questions, Concerns
Carolina Alumni Review publisher denies political motives were behind decision to abandon planned investigative report.
UNC-Chapel Hill Trustee’s Involvement in Debate Between Candidates for Student Body President Sparks Controversy
Student Body President Lamar Richards said in a complaint to UNC leadership that Trustee Marty Kotis attended an online debate, asked questions, and offered “pointed, professionally inappropriate responses in the chat” to candidates’ answers.
NC’s Top Democrats Signed Off on a Big Payday for UNC’s Silent Sam Lawyers, But They Don’t Want to Talk About It
Gov. Roy Cooper and Attorney General Josh Stein signed off on a $250,000 payday for UNC’s Silent Sam lawyers, raising new questions that few in the state’s political establishment—Republicans and Democrats alike—appear to be willing to answer.
Affirmative Action Has Been a Staple of Universities’ Admissions Policies for Decades. Now, an Ultra-Conservative Supreme Court Will Rule in a Case Brought Against UNC-Chapel Hill
The country could be on its way back to 1950 in terms of equity in higher education.
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