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From UNC-Chapel Hill's campus to the lawn of the state capitol, to the historic Durham county courthouse — each Confederate monument was either torn down or damaged by protestors.

While UNC alumnus John Bare hasn’t lived in Chapel Hill for decades, you could say Chapel Hill still lives in him. Bare has published two novels, and they’re both love letters to Chapel Hill.

Professors at the UNC examine the fallout for the entire world of academia following Harvard University's President Claudine Gay's resignation.

The newly-elected Democrat mayor of Jacksonville, Florida, celebrated the removal of a Confederate statue in the city.

Monday marked a transition in leadership for Chapel Hill, as Jess Anderson took her oath as the town’s latest mayor.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has a new interim chancellor in Lee Roberts, a member of the UNC systems Board of Governors.

These four new NC higher education policies are similar to efforts in Florida. And the ideas flow both ways.

Public higher education around the country is caught in the crosshairs of political debates. Now those appear to come at a cost: “brain drain,” or the loss of faculty. In

UNC Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz is rumored to be in line to leave Chapel Hill to be the president of Michigan State University.

The chair of the faculty at UNC sent a letter to the chancellor last week expressing support for him as he weighs a decision to potentially leave the university.