Silent Sam soon may return to campus after the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees approved a recommendation to rehouse the Confederate memorial in a new, on-campus historic education center near UNC Medical Center. The Board of Trustees met Monday, Dec. 3, to approve a recommendation to determine Silent Sam’s fate, months after protesters toppled the...
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is poised to set a national example of allowing lawful protest while protecting free speech. But campus administrators and law enforcers so far have come up short, some experts say. As public universities bend under the force of rampant — sometimes violent — political unrest, all eyes...
CHAPEL HILL — The University of North Carolina’s governing body may provoke national backlash if it bars the UNC Center for Civil Rights from entering into lawsuits, said UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Carol Folt. Folt expressed her concerns July 28 in a five-page letter to Anna Nelson, chair of the board’s educational planning, policies, and programs...
Haley Barbour on leading during Hurricane Katrina; Garland Tucker on common characteristics of conservative heroes; Carol Folt on UNC-CH scandal; Sara Imhof on negative impact of federal debt; Jon Guze on criticism of Justice Clarence Thomas
