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1 month ago | 
theassemblync.com | Erin Gretzinger |Matt Hartman
Some UNC-Chapel Hill faculty say they are concerned about a recent Board of Trustees decision—or, rather, non-decision—on faculty tenure and promotion cases. At the board’s meeting in March, trustees delayed taking up personnel actions until the May meeting. Then during a closed-session meeting on May 22, the trustees approved 18 new tenure cases, promotions, and appointments.
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1 month ago | 
chronicle.com | Katherine Mangan |Erin Gretzinger |Maggie Hicks |Christa Dutton
In June 2020, as millions took to the streets to protest anti-Black racism, the president of the University of Virginia, James E. Ryan, created a small team with an ambitious agenda. The university needed bold ideas, he told the new Racial Equity Task Force, and it needed them quickly. A free account provides you access to free articles each month, newsletters, job postings, salary data, and exclusive store discounts. Get a year of unlimited access for $89.
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2 months ago | 
theassemblync.com | Erin Gretzinger |Ben Rappaport
St. Andrews University announced Friday that the school would close on May 5, citing financial difficulties. “The financial realities of maintaining operations in Laurinburg have become unsustainable,” the university wrote in a statement on Facebook. The private liberal arts college in Laurinburg, which has been in rural southeastern North Carolina since 1958, has long faced an uphill battle to survive.
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Mar 6, 2025 | 
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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Feb 27, 2025 | 
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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Feb 22, 2025 | 
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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Feb 13, 2025 | 
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.
