Higher education News

The University doesn’t track the beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals among its student body, but there are DACA students — and alumni — who qualify for the program President Donald Trump has ordered phased out. read more

The University has met funding setbacks with innovation in the quest to maintain the promise of covering 100 percent of need for low-income students. read more

The program is intended to help the state address its widening teacher shortage by providing a new avenue for lateral-entry teachers to gain licensure. North Carolina employs more than 4,300 lateral-entry teachers, according to a 2015 report by the… read more

The University is helping launch a new alliance that aims to make a college degree possible for more students, regardless of their ability to pay. read more

Three Carolina undergraduates are recipients of a fellowship set up by two alumni for students who have started a Chinese language journey and seek to develop advanced working language skills. read more

The School of Education changes leadership and direction in a period ripe for — and demanding — innovation to counter enrollment and funding declines. read more

The partnership is an expansion of the Carolina Student Transfer Excellence Program, C-STEP, a program that has helped hundreds of students enroll at Carolina since its launch in 2006. read more

Kelly Hogan ’01 (PhD) took some troubling statistics on student success and turned them into a new college classroom at Carolina: less talk, more action and deeper learning. read more

She arrives with a reputation for toughness and thick skin that has already has come in handy, as well as more than three decades in education and public policy work at the highest levels. read more