Education

Palestinian students are being suspended over accusations they supported the Oct. 7 Hamas attack, and some Jewish students say they won't attend classes with Palestinian professors.

Catawba College’s Center for the Environment is hosting a community conversation next week. The event is the result of a partnership between the college, the local NAACP chapter, and the Reimagining America Project, a nonprofit looking to enact systemic changes to end racism. 

A University of North Carolina at Greensboro associate dean announced he will resign at the end of May. The move was made in protest over the administration’s ongoing academic portfolio review process.

The Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Board of Education recently approved an academic calendar for next year that has school starting two weeks early. Now the district says it will be lenient on absences as families adjust. 

Hedge fund boss Bill Ackman has waged battles in corporate boardrooms. He writes lengthy public letters and digs in. Now, he's using those same tactics in wars with Ivy League schools and the media.

Blocked by Republican legislators at most every turn to advance his education agenda, Democratic Gov.