Amid changing protocols for COVID-19 ahead of UNC’s fall semester, some changes are also set to occur for graduate students. Beginning in August, payments to graduate students will be distributed per semester.
The UNC NAACP held a demonstration at the steps of South Building on Monday where protestors spoke out against the UNC Police Department following an altercation with demonstrators at the UNC Board of Trustees last meeting.
Over the past year, there’s been a big push to rename the UNC Student Stores after James Cates. The Student Stores Building was previously named after white supremacist Josephus Daniels until the Board of Trustees voted to remove the name last July.
Multiple student-led groups at UNC held a press conference Wednesday afternoon to discuss next steps for the university’s Black community and to present demands to campus leadership following the Nikole Hannah-Jones tenure controversy.
Less than a week after UNC’s Board of Trustees granted Nikole Hannah-Jones tenure, the award-winning journalist said she will not be joining the UNC faculty.