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Courtesy John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation/Creative CommonsThe decision highlights the divisions between her view of the mission of journalism and Arkansas newspaper publisher whose name adorns the school. -
Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine/Two teams of North Carolina scientists have engineering lab-grown liver tissues that survived for 30 days. This breakthrough, which won the teams first and second prize in NASA’s Vascular Tissue Challenge, could lay the groundwork for better organ models and easier transplants in the future.
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A major University of North Carolina donor whose name is on its journalism school voiced concerns about the school's hiring of investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones in the weeks before her application for tenure was halted. -
Basketball great Michael Jordan and Nike's Jordan Brand are giving $1 million to Morehouse College in Atlanta to boost journalism and sports-related studies.
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Like many universities, Wake Forest is trying to come to terms with its antebellum past. The school's president announced this month that this work is why trustees chose to rename Wingate Hall, named for a slave-owner, as "May 7, 1860 Hall." But the name has been rejected by Black alumni, who said it adds fresh pain to a traumatic legacy.
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This month, thousands of students across North Carolina who've been learning remotely during the pandemic are visiting their schools just for end-of-grade exams.
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The offer of a tenured teaching position to journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones has been resubmitted to the board of trustees at a North Carolina university that faced an uproar last week when her tenure application was halted.
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Biden's "American Families Plan" would mark almost $2 billion for extending child care, Pre-K, health care and more. At the same time, Gov. Roy Cooper hopes the legislature will put $160 million of new federal pandemic relief to fund Pre-K for students.
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Protesters stood on the sidelines of a trustees meeting Thursday to oppose the denial of tenure for the high-profile hire at UNC's journalism school despite a faculty recommendation.
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Duke Energy and North Carolina political leaders are fighting back against a Florida hedge fund that wants to break up the company.
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The high school seniors putting together the yearbook at the Early College of Forsyth in Winston-Salem filled the pages of the 2021 edition with photos of pandemic life with pets, quarantine cooking recipes, and Zoom tiles.
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North Carolina House Republicans approved a plan on Wednesday to prohibit public schools from embracing certain ideas that critically examine how race and racism influence American politics, culture and law.
