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Some North Carolina colleges charge only $500 for tuition. It could cause a $6 million deficit.
State funds make up the difference between the NC Promise rate and actual tuition rates. Those state funds won’t cover all of the difference this year.
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One policy. 17 results. How NC public universities are complying with a DEI ban
There’s a wide range of approaches to the UNC System’s new policy against diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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The UNC System is coming after DEI on campuses. The LGBTQ community worries it’s next.
Students and staff worry the policy change will make them feel unsafe and unwelcome.
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How AI is transforming agriculture at North Carolina’s largest HBCU
Researchers at N.C. A&T State University are incorporating artificial intelligence into farming.
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UNC Board of Governors unanimously approves program cuts at UNC Asheville, UNC Greensboro
It means that four departments and two language concentrations at UNC-Asheville and a combination of 20 programs, majors and minors at UNC-Greensboro are no longer available to new students.
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Here are the steps North Carolina’s public universities are taking to obey a new DEI ban
North Carolina’s 16 public universities and the North Carolina School of Science and Math have about six weeks to prove they are complying with a ban on diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
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‘Absolutely absurd’: community feels shut out from UNC System meetings
Only a handful of students were allowed into a UNC Board of Governors meeting in which they voted to ban DEI.
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DEI offices in danger under new guidance from UNC System
While the guidance doesn’t instruct chancellors specifically to eliminate all DEI offices, it does require significant changes.
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Founding professor of UNC Asheville’s religious studies department says cuts threaten ‘core’ of university
Over the past five years, UNC Asheville’s enrollment has dropped 25%. The chancellor has proposed eliminating six departments.