RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A panel asked by Gov. Roy Cooper to recommend changes to how governing boards of the University of North Carolina system and its member schools are chosen met for the first time last week.  The Commission ...

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RALEIGH (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that North Carolina’s flagship public university can continue to consider race as a factor in its undergraduate admissions, rebuffing a conservative group’s argument that affirmative action disadvantages white and Asian students. U.S. ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Campus workers in the University of North Carolina system have filed a lawsuit saying working conditions are unsafe and that workers are reporting for work with inadequate protective equipment amid the COVID-19 outbreak. Some university employees, ...

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The University of North Carolina Board of Governors violated the state’s open meetings laws by secretly negotiating and approving a deal to dispose of a Confederate monument from the campus of the system’s flagship school, according to a lawsuit filed ...

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A judge won’t let students intervene in a settlement that gave a Confederate heritage group money to preserve a monument that protesters tore down at North Carolina’s flagship public university. Judge Allen Baddour in Orange County ruled that the University ...

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The University of North Carolina system is changing the way it hires chancellors to require confidentiality and no public disclosure of candidates. The News & Observer of Raleigh reports the new process also toughens background checks and no longer requires ...

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Nichols v. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Lawyers Weekly No. 012-133-17, 8 pp.) (Chris Dillon, J.) Appealed from the Office of Administrative Hearings (Fred Morrison Jr., ALJ) N.C. App. Unpub. Holding: Contrary to petitioner’s argument, respondent was not ...

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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — The University of North Carolina has reached a settlement after a college football player said he suffered a concussion during an off-campus hazing incident. Citing a copy of the settlement it obtained Tuesday, the News ...

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GREENVILLE, N.C. (AP) — The chancellor of a North Carolina university says the school hasn’t released surveillance video of an on-campus beating of a black man by four white people last month because of an ongoing criminal investigation. East Carolina ...

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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s public university board is dealing with a new round of demonstrations against their new president and a new state law that limits protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. The University of ...

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