Liz Schlemmer
Education ReporterLiz Schlemmer is WUNC's Education Reporter, covering preschool through higher education. She has previously served as the Fletcher Fellow for Education Policy Reporting at WUNC and as the education reporter at Louisville Public Media.
She holds a M.A. from the Hussman School of Journalism and Media at UNC-Chapel Hill and a B.A. in history from Indiana University. Liz is originally from rural Indiana, where she grew up with a large extended family of educators.
Twitter: LSchlemmer_WUNC
Email: lschlemmer@wunc.org
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Host Dave DeWitt speaks with WUNC education reporter Liz Schlemmer about the ongoing tenure controversy involving Nikole Hannah-Jones and UNC-Chapel Hill. -
Host Dave DeWitt speaks with WUNC education reporter Liz Schlemmer about the ongoing tenure controversy involving Nikole Hannah-Jones and UNC-Chapel Hill.
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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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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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For decades, states and the federal government have funded Historically Black Colleges and Universities at rates much lower than historically white schools. Those funders – public and private – are just beginning to see the systemic racism built into how we pay for colleges, and small steps are being taken to right past wrongs. Host Dave DeWitt speaks with Liz Schlemmer, WUNC's education reporter, about that history, and how one school – North Carolina A&T State University – is setting fundraising records, and how administrators and advocates hope to build on recent successes.
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While the Class of 2021 took the spotlight at graduations over the Mother's Day weekend, some members of the Class of 2020 also got to walk the stage in their caps and gowns too. The pandemic had derailed their regularly scheduled ceremonies.
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Graduations for both 2020 and 2021 started taking place this weekend.
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North Carolina A&T State University has seen an almost six-fold increase in donations — and the fiscal year isn't even over yet. Other HBCUs are also reporting a fundraising boom.
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Hundreds of protesters gathered Sunday in Elizabeth City, N.C., to demand justice and accountability for the death of Andrew Brown Jr., the Black man who was shot and killed by Pasquotank County sheriff’s deputies serving drug-related search and arrest warrants a week and a half ago.
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The UNC system Board of Governors has voted to allow its five historically Black universities to enroll a larger share of first-year students from out of state.
