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1 month ago | 
indyweek.com | Erin Gretzinger |
As Saint Augustine’s University fights to retain accreditation, a legal battle continues to fester between the university’s current board chair, Brian Boulware, and a former trustee who invested in his cigar bar business.
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1 month ago | 
indyweek.com | |Erin Gretzinger
When a five-member crew of higher education professionals arrived at Saint Augustine’s University in October 2023 to scrutinize its finances and operations, the small, private, historically Black school was already on thin ice. Founded in the late 1860s by the Episcopal Church as a school for newly freed slaves, Saint Augustine’s, also called SAU, was a pillar of the East Raleigh community with a legacy of educational access and achievement.
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2 months ago | 
chronicle.com | Erin Gretzinger |Maggie Hicks |Christa Dutton |Jasper Smith
Updated on February 21, 2025: Columbia University, Des Moines Area Community College, Gateway Technical College, Iowa State University, Lawrence Tech, Michigan State University, Northwestern University, University of Arizona, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, University of Iowa, University of Northern Iowa, United States Naval Academy, Vanderbilt University, Xavier UniversityThe Chronicle is tracking higher ed’s dismantling of diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.
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2 months ago | 
theassemblync.com | Erin Gretzinger |Matt Hartman
From a new species of squirrel discovered by a UNC-Greensboro researcher to a new UNC-Chapel Hill study that provided the first empirical evidence on how loggerhead sea turtles use the Earth’s magnetic field, my inbox is always flooded with exciting academic updates from across North Carolina.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
indyweek.com | Erin Gretzinger |
After Saint Augustine’s University entered into a multi-million-dollar loan agreement with a 26 percent interest rate, Self-Help Credit Union’s CEO offered the embattled HBCU a loan at a significantly lower interest rate of 9 percent, documents obtained by INDY and The Assembly show. However, Self-Help’s $19.5 million loan offer also came with one big stipulation: two SAU board members, including its current chair, would have to resign from the board of trustees.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
theassemblync.com | Erin Gretzinger |Matt Hartman
Hi all! I hope everyone survived the snow-pocalypse last weekend. As a University of Wisconsin grad who trekked to class in blizzards, my capacity to understand the scramble ahead of last week’s flurries is admittedly low. Still, if you had problems (or fun!) in the snow on your campus, drop me a line and further my Southern snow-storm education.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
chroni.cl | Erin Gretzinger |Maggie Hicks |Christa Dutton |Beth McMurtrie
Can a college attract Latino students with colorblind strategies? If a new Utah state law bans public colleges from various diversity, equity, and inclusion work, how do colleges recruit and retain Latino students? That’s the central tension at Weber State University, in Utah, where the Latino population is booming, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. To be compliant with the new state law, Weber State’s president shut down the institution’s existing cultural center.
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Dec 19, 2024 | 
theassemblync.com | Erin Gretzinger
As the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill entered the admissions season in October 2023, a member of the school’s Board of Trustees asked its chair to advise the group on how to recommend applicants they thought should be admitted. “We need your guidance to the board Re your expectations for how trustees will approach these matters,” trustee Jennifer Lloyd wrote in a text message to chair John Preyer.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
chroni.cl | Erin Gretzinger |Maggie Hicks |Christa Dutton |Jasper Smith
Updated on December 6, 2024. The Chronicle is tracking higher ed’s dismantling of diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. As colleges make changes in response to anti-DEI legislation and mounting political pressure, an inconsistent and confusing landscape has emerged. This resource aims to document the changes and help readers better understand how the campaign against DEI has actually reshaped campuses.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
theassemblync.com | Erin Gretzinger |Matt Hartman
About three weeks after The Assembly first reported on Project Kitty Hawk back in April, the University of North Carolina System’s ambitious online degree startup backed by $97 million from the state, CEO Wil Zemp stepped down. And as Pam Kelley reported last week, PKH has now had to return more than $102,000 in federal grant money used for disallowed purchases, and a state audit found the system violated “federal and state laws, rules, and regulations” that require it to monitor the nonprofit.
