Brianna Atkinson
Higher Education ReporterBrianna Atkinson covers higher education in partnership with Open Campus and NC Local. She's a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, with a B.A. in journalism and psychology. Her background includes print and audio journalism from several publications in North Carolina. And as a North Carolina native, she's passionate about local news and reporting that's inclusive of various voices within the community.
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The School of Civic Life and Leadership has been controversial since its inception and increasingly so in recent times. -
Redrawing the Congressional map for political purposes inadvertently changes the makeup of the North Carolina School of Science and Math’s incoming classes. -
Chancellor Aswani Volety shared initial plans at a UNC Board of Governors meeting Wednesday. -
Chancellors are required to live in their official residences, which has occasionally posed some challenges. -
The draft would change how student activity fees fund college campus initiatives. -
Chief Financial Officer Nathan Knuffman presented the all funds budget to university trustees this week. He said UNC-Chapel Hill is still facing multiple funding uncertainties, both from the state and federal government. -
The revision comes after Chancellor Lee Roberts got rid of an administrator-created policy that allowed the university to secretly record professors. -
The "HomeGrown" initiative will unfold over the next three years, but not everyone agrees the commitment is enough to address what some see as an extractive relationship between Duke and the Durham community. -
Art Pope talks to WUNC’s Higher Education reporter on the UNC BOG’s decision to raise tuition for the first time in nine years. -
The policy had only been in effect for two weeks when Chancellor Lee Roberts announced he was reversing it.
