A math and computer science professor at Davidson College, a liberal arts school in North Carolina known for its outsize hoop dreams, Chartier has spent a decade studying the relationship between math and college basketball

Blackface, with its roots in demeaning minstrel-show traditions, has persisted in fraternity houses and private clubs, occasionally exploding into public view.

College officials, students, faculty, journalists and others are sifting archives across the country to learn what those tomes of yesteryear might tell of racial history.

Former New York mayor is funding an effort to diversify prominent colleges and universities. Skeptics say schools are overstating the initiative's results.

The NCAA is facing more than 300 lawsuits from former college football players who claim their concussions were mistreated, leading to medical problems spanning from headaches to depression and, in some cases, early onset Parkinson's or Alzheimer's disease.

By the end of the most recent full fiscal year, last June, head coaches of 32 teams at UNC and NC State made more than $150,000 annually in full compensation. At UNC, coaching compensation, including those for assistant coaches, increased by 39.1 percent in the past five years. At NC State, it grew by 28 percent.

Photos from a 1979 UNC-Chapel Hill college yearbook showing white fraternity members partying in Klan costumes, pretending to lynch a classmate in blackface and dressed in Confederate clothing have caused an internet stir.

A scheduling fight over a controversial class on college athletics is back in the spotlight because one key player is now Chapel Hill's interim chancellor.

A $5 million donation may seem like small change in the era of Bloomberg's billions. But at community colleges the impact can be dramatic.

After racist pictures from Gov. Ralph S. Northam’s 1984 medical-school yearbook were posted online last week, Twitter has been aflame with similar photos plucked from other yearbooks.