Thirteen parents and one coach have agreed to guilty pleas in "Operation Varsity Blues," a national investigation of a scheme intended to fraudulently gain admission to college.
Police arrested two people Monday for defacing a monument and an art exhibit on the UNC campus early March 31 with racist graffiti. The pair also were charged in the theft of a university flag that morning from atop the UNC System Building.
An early look at state and local higher education funding finds that recovery since the recession has been uneven, with just nine states in 2018 back to pre-recession funding levels -- meanwhile, another nine have seen no recovery at all.