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NC SUPREME COURT HALTS CANDIDATE FILING, POSTPONES PRIMARY: North Carolina’s 2022 primary election must be delayed — as gerrymandering lawsuits play out that could lead to redrawn districts — the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. It’s a win for the liberal voters and groups that have challenged the new political maps for those races as being unconstitutionally

NC SUPREME COURT HALTS CANDIDATE FILING, POSTPONES PRIMARY: North Carolina’s 2022 primary election must be delayed — as gerrymandering lawsuits play out that could lead to redrawn districts — the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. It’s a win for the liberal voters and groups that have challenged the new political maps for those races as being unconstitutionally

University of North Carolina will create an internal unit to build and manage online programs from the system’s 17 campuses for learners largely ignored by many universities.

Marisol Garcia, who is slated to graduated from Trinity College in May, has spent nearly a decade of her adult life incarcerated. Now, she holds herself up as an example of the importance of prison education programs and Pell Grant funding, and is committed to using her platform to advocate change.

Why are college students seeking mental-health services in record numbers?

JMU needs to prioritize sexual assault prevention instead of putting its resources into support programs for survivors.

David Bray, professor in the Department of Earth and Environment in FIUs College of Arts, Sciences & Education, featured in Academic Minute.

Ry Rivard covers energy, the environment and transportation in New Jersey. He joined POLITICO in 2021 from the Adirondack Explorer in New York, where he was an investigative reporter and wrote about pollution in one of America’s most protected wilderness areas. His reporting, in partnership with the Times Union of Albany, was a finalist for a 2020 Investigative Reporters and Editors award.<br/><br/> <br/><br/>Rivard previously spent five years covering energy and we...

Stakeholders argue that there are more appropriate ways to hold for-profit institutions accountable than excluding their students from using the Build Back Better Act’s increase to the maximum Pell Grant.

Buying local is one way to “vote with your fork,” using consumer demand to help shape the economy. Individuals, families and businesses all have some power in this way, but some have more than others.One family votes with a handful of forks — UMass...