Brianna Atkinson
Higher Education Reporter and 2024 Fletcher FellowBrianna Atkinson is WUNC’s 2024 Fletcher Fellow and covers higher education in partnership with Open Campus. She recently graduated from 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 Senate's proposal would cut millions of dollars of funding for need-based students. -
The Genentech biotechnology plant will create more than 400 jobs. -
WUNC Higher Ed reporter Brianna Atkinson profiled the students. -
In a two-part series, student activists reflect on their lives one year since UNC-Chapel Hill Polk Place protest. UNC student Laura Saavedra Forero shares her personal journey in activism leading up to the April 30 pro-Palestinian protest and losing the Morehead-Cain scholarship. -
In a two-part series, student activists reflect on their lives one year since UNC-Chapel Hill Polk Place protest. UNC student Brendan Rosenblum was one of the fraternity brothers who held up the American flag when protesters attempted to replace it with a Palestinian one. -
While the UNC BOG has kept tuition flat year after year, inflation has soared. -
While the UNC BOG has kept tuition flat year after year, inflation has soared.
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The N.C. State alum has held several roles within the university before being named its top leader. He will start after Randy Woodson steps down at the end of the school year. -
From university funding to DEI to deportation policy to Medicaid, a panel of WUNC reporters looks at how Trump 2.0 affects North Carolina and the people who call our state home. -
The university said it will remain open and is pursuing an "arbitration process."
