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Silent Sam secrecy continues tradition of opaqueness inside UNC
RALEIGH — The University of North Carolina System’s Board of Governors has a transparency problem. Again.
UNC turns over Silent Sam to Sons of Confederate Veterans
RALEIGH — Silent Sam may soon find a new home nowhere near the UNC-Chapel Hill campus.
UNC Chapel Hill opens co-admission pathway to RichmondCC students
HAMLET — Richmond Community College students will now have the opportunity to participate in the renowned Carolina Student Transfer Excellence Program, known as C-STEP, in order to earn guaranteed admissions to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Carolina’s C-STEP program expands to include Richmond Community College
CHAPEL HILL — The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is expanding its renowned Carolina Student Transfer Excellence Program, known as C-STEP. Richmond Community College students will now have the opportunity to participate in C-STEP and earn guaranteed admission to Carolina. Eligible students can enroll as early as the fall 2021 academic semester.
North Carolina Superior Court Judge Tanya Wallace announces retirement
ROCKINGHAM — North Carolina Superior Court Judge Tanya Wallace has served in the field of law for quite some time, and come Aug. 1, that field will be down one less professional.
Wallace announced Thursday morning that she will be officially retiring, effective July 31.
Anti-Semitic comments fuel conflict over campus speech
RALEIGH — “This is my anti-Semitic song.” Palestinian rapper Tamer Nafar said those words March 22 as he performed on a stage at UNC Chapel Hill’s Global Education Center.
McInnis bill aims to lower in-state costs at UNC, State by raising non-resident tuition
RALEIGH — Richmond County’s state senator wants to charge out-of-state students more to attend two of North Carolina’s most prestigious universities in order to lower the costs for residents of the Tar Heel State.
Deadline looms for Pee Dee Electric basketball camp scholarship applications
WADESBORO — The deadline is quickly approaching for rising sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders to apply for a scholarship from Pee Dee Electric to attend basketball camp this summer.
Silent Sam decision pushed back until May
RALEIGH — People wanting to learn the fate of Silent Sam will have to wait a bit longer. The University of North Carolina Board of Governors has approved an extension of the deadline for board members to devise a plan for the confederate monument.
COLUMN: Folt bolts, takes Sam with her
So it looks like the UNC Board of Governors has run off another employee.
UNC-CH Chancellor Carol Folt announced she’s leaving at the end of the academic year, just weeks after UNC President Margaret Spellings announced her resignation.
