College Students

For children of long-term visa holders who've waited years to be approved for green cards, graduating college represents a challenging transition period of trying to find work or be approved for new visas in order to stay in the country. And for those graduating this year, that transition has become more challenging under the Trump administration's approach to immigration.

A national report released quarterly shows that both unemployment and underemployment have risen among recent grads—and the same is being felt in North Carolina.

A week after a UNC Board of Governors committee voted to repeal a policy requiring all public universities in the state to have diversity, equity and inclusion offices, faculty and students want answers on the process, and how far-reaching the impacts may be.

The policy had been in place since 2019 and previously mandated all public universities in North Carolina to have DEI offices.

The policy affects all Diversity Equity and Inclusion offices and employees in the University of North Carolina System.

Forsyth Technical Community College is improving on-campus childcare for community college students.

WUNC visited the campuses of N.C. Central and Campbell to gauge the level of elections engagement among college students.

SafeWalk is a program staffed by UNC-Chapel Hill students who provide escorts on and off campus at nighttime.

Three UNC-Chapel Hill students have become unexpected distributors of the life-saving drug naloxone in a college town where several students have recently died from opioid poisonings.

UNC-Chapel Hill's Students Demand Action group held a "Walkout and Heal" event Friday in response to recent gun-related lockdowns on campus.