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A male and female pair of northern bobwhite quail sit in a field of purple spring violets. Both birds are a speckled brown. One bird has a yellow streak running from its eyes to the back of its head. The other bird sits more bunched up, like a ball, and has black and white streaks along its face.

'A picture of winners and losers': Several Triangle bird species declining as the climate warms

Sophie Mallinson

Three North Carolina counties have some bird populations that are strongly declining, consistent with a 2019 study that found “major” population loss among North America’s birds.

The Old Well on the UNC- Chapel Hill campus.

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UNC-Chapel Hill Community Reacts To Hannah-Jones' Decision Not To Accept Position At School; Black Faculty And Students Demand Change

Liz Schlemmer

Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones told CBS This Morning it was "embarrassing" to not be initially considered for tenure at her alma mater after the UNC-Chapel Hill journalism school recruited her. The UNC community is reacting to her decision to instead become a professor at Howard University.

Faculty members of a North Carolina university want an explanation for the school's reported decision to back away from offering a tenured teaching position to Nikole Hannah-Jones. Hannah-Jones' work on the country’s history of slavery has drawn the ire of conservatives. A report in NC Policy Watch on Wednesday, May 19, 2021 said Hannah-Jones was to be offered a tenured professorship as the Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Nikole Hannah-Jones Chooses Howard Over UNC-Chapel Hill

Associated Press

Investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones says she will not teach at the journalism school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill following an extended fight over tenure.

Education

Meet The UNC-CH Black Pioneers Fighting The Silent Sam Settlement

Liz Schlemmer

The legal battle over the UNC System’s $2.5 million settlement with the Sons of Confederate Veterans heads back to court Wednesday.District Court Judge…

Teachers in North Carolina have seen pay raises

Education

Federal Report Recommends Schools Teach Grit

Lisa Philip

Alongside reading, writing and math, schools should teach students how to manage their feelings, too. That's a new recommendation from the federal…