RALEIGH (May 22, 2015) – A University budget that grows by $139 million, or 5.3%, as the overall budget grows by 6.3% is a welcome change in the spending plan for 2015-16 that the N.C. House approved early Friday.1 “It stops the cutting and begins to reverse the trend that began with the Great Recession,”… READ MORE
Historically Black Colleges and Universities Make a Difference
What do wide receiver Reggie Langhorne, astronaut Ronald E. McNair, and former Chapel Hill mayor Kevin Foy have in common? They all attended historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the University of North Carolina school system. The five public HBCUs in North Carolina – North Carolina A&T State University (NC A&T), North Carolina Central… READ MORE