- The Senate's proposal would cut millions of dollars of funding for need-based students.
- The program “vrClinicals for Nursing” lets students have dynamic conversations with virtual patients and learn how to navigate their cases.
- N.C. A&T, N.C. Central, and Wake Tech are among other institutions around the state, giving AI a place on campus.
- Dr. Karrie Dixon will leave her post as chancellor at Elizabeth City State University to lead NCCU in Durham.
- Completed FAFSA submissions are down 10% within the UNC System. Historically Minority-Serving Institutions have been hit particularly hard, with a 13% decrease.
- WUNC visited the campuses of N.C. Central and Campbell to gauge the level of elections engagement among college students.
- A new effort is underway to complete 500 acres of oyster sanctuaries in the Pamlico Sound. It’s an effort to combat a century of decline in oyster populations. But, the goals extend beyond the water’s edge.
- Seven regional hubs will be located at a mix of public and private HBCUs, and the state’s only Historically American Indian University.
- 60 years ago, on Sept. 15, 1963, "Four Little Girls" were killed in a bombing set by the Ku Klux Klan at 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Some who lived through the trauma wonder if anything has changed.
- Greensboro native Brandon McEachern is the founder and CEO of the Broccoli City Festival.