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UNC-Chapel Hill is at the center of one of the cases, Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina, with the university defending its use of race as one of several factors it ...
In 1963, the consolidated university was made fully coeducational. As a result, the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina was renamed the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Until the second half of the 20th century, only white students were admitted.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC, UNC-Chapel Hill, or simply Carolina) [14] is a public research university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. Chartered in 1789, the university first began enrolling students in 1795, making it one of the oldest public universities in the United States .
During the Great Depression, the North Carolina General Assembly searched for cost savings within state government. Towards this effort in 1931, it redefined the University of North Carolina, which at the time referred exclusively to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; the new Consolidated University of North Carolina was created to include the existing campuses of University of ...
People walk through the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill on Monday, Oct. 31, 2022, in Chapel Hill, N.C. The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday will hear oral arguments in Students for Fair Admissions v.
Last week, UNC Chapel Hill released a profile of incoming freshman and transfer students that shows in the year since the US Supreme Court gutted affirmative action in college admissions, the ...
The Morehead-Cain Scholarship (originally the Morehead Scholarship) was the first merit scholarship program established in the United States. [1] [2] [better source needed] It was founded at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1951 and was named for its benefactors, John Motley Morehead III and the Gordon and Mary Cain Foundation. [2]
Learn more in The News & Observer’s weekly roundup of higher ed news about how some UNC trustees responded to a speaker’s comments about the university’s admissions policies.