 
Brianna Atkinson
Higher Education ReporterBrianna Atkinson covers higher education in partnership with Open Campus and NC Local. She's a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, with a B.A. in journalism and psychology. Her background includes print and audio journalism from several publications in North Carolina. And as a North Carolina native, she's passionate about local news and reporting that's inclusive of various voices within the community.
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                        The EMS department will be collecting feedback on the model and plans to implement it next year
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                        The $3.3 million gap is set to impact the System's NC Promise institutions.
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                        Right-wing groups are increasingly requesting copies of syllabi and course materials to assess what's being taught in college classrooms. That means universities like UNC-Chapel Hill and UNC Greensboro are having to decide what to turn over, and what faculty can still control.
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                        Poe Hall is the focus of the lawsuit, which the public university shut down in 2023 after it tested positive for toxic chemicals called PCBs.
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                        The federal government has only funded 9% of the total damage Helene caused in the state.
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                        Anti-DEI groups claim they belong to the public. University leaders say they are faculty members' intellectual property. A look at the copyright debate.
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                        Warren Wilson College shut down for weeks after Helene flooded campus. The schools still has millions of dollars of repairs remaining.
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                        SCIMaP co-founder and University of Pennsylvania researcher Alyssa Sinclair recently spoke with WUNC higher education reporter Brianna Atkinson about the potential impact of a 40% Trump-proposed cut to the NIH.
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                        Frank Alexander lost his Morehead scholarship in the 1970s after getting arrested at a civil rights protest. He tells his story 50 years later, after meeting another scholar who lost her award amid pro-Palestinian activism.
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                        Duke, UNC-Chapel Hill, and other NC universities are increasing how much money they put toward federal lobbying amid targeted attacks to higher education funding.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
