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Report: NC State and UNC Charlotte rank in the top ten for free speech
Two North Carolina universities made the top ten in the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression's (FIRE) 2025 College Free Speech Rankings Report.
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State makes ‘significant’ investment in UNC system schools
“Transformative and generous.” That’s the praise heaped on the new state budget from supporters of the University of North Carolina System. With college admissions decisions coming over the next few weeks, many students are wondering what their first-pick schools are allotted in the 2021 Appropriations Act. The budget plan was written and passed by the...
Opinion
Take time to broaden the mind
From 2011 to 2017, the number of degrees awarded in history, religion, literature, philosophy, liberal arts, and the humanities went down, by 20 percent or more in some cases.
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UNC campuses training to respond to mass shootings
GREENSBORO — Gunshots split the air on a cold morning at UNC-Greensboro. Three shooters invaded the dilapidated McIver Building on the southeast side of campus. University and local police swarmed the scene minutes later. The incident Thursday, Feb. 1, felt like a TV moment — especially since none of the action was real, sophomore Zoe...
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UNC-G faces unexpected challenges, opportunities with lab school
GREENSBORO — UNC Greensboro will take over a low-performing Rockingham County elementary school this year, a chance for student teachers and administrators to lend a hand to struggling children and families. There’s just one problem. UNC-G isn’t in the habit of operating a school educating pre-teens — and organizers are scrambling to meet a tight...
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More UNC campuses giving free speech its due, FIRE reports
RALEIGH — First Amendment Rights just got the “green light” on two University of North Carolina campuses. New findings from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a nonpartisan research and litigation organization, show a positive shift in speech protections at UNC Greensboro and North Carolina Central University. FIRE divides public and private universities into three...
Opinion
No. 696: General Education at UNC-Greensboro: Parental Caution Advised
All of the schools in the University of North Carolina system pay lip service to a general education program that is supposed to ensure students graduate with a well-rounded, fundamental education in addition to their major courses. UNC at Greensboro says that it seeks to “foster the knowledge, character, and sensibility of a university-educated person.”
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UNCG Faculty Donate Money to Staff
The faculty at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro has provided state legislators and others a lesson in responsibility and charity in the face of dire fiscal times, writes Jon Sanders.
