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These “College Conversations in Difficult Times” will promote broader understanding of events in the Middle East.

UNC Students for Justice in Palestine protested the university hosting journalist Bari Weiss as part of UNC's Program for Public Discourse on Monday night.

North Carolina’s universities yield mixed results on free speech, says a recent Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression study of American campuses.

One thing North Carolinians can be grateful for this holiday season is the professional commitment to accuracy and fairness by at least some in the state’s news media, including the

Two dozen Carolina students from different political ideologies promote constructive dialogue on campus. 

Nine faculty members will develop the School of Civic Life and Leadership's vision and curriculum while leading the search for a new dean.

The nine professors come from departments at the university ranging from philosophy to music to physics and more.

I recently spoke to a right-leaning group on the campus of my alma mater, the University of North Carolina, about my post-college career as an advocate for conservative principles and policy. I was somewhat embarrassed to admit to the group that I never did any meaningful advocacy for the cause as a college student, but I know I am not alone. Many right-leaning students on campuses across the country — and faculty, for that matter — don’t feel free to express their political opinions for f...

Chapel Hill faculty members were caught off guard in January by what sounded like the return of a proposed conservative campus center. They objected, but the university is moving forward. Nearly 700 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty members signed a letter last month criticizing, among other things, the university’s proposed School of Civic Life and Leadership.

The Senate’s proposed budget would cut state funding to the UNC School of Government and School of Law while giving millions to a new School of Civic Life.