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Students work on assignments and listen to organizers as they sit inside the encampment protest in Polk Place on University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, N.C., April 29, 2024. On Monday, May 13, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Board of Trustees approved a change that would divert $2.3 million of diversity funding to go toward public safety and policing. The vote to shift more funding to public safety comes as continued pro-Palestinian protests on UNC's campus have resulted in several arrests in recent weeks. (AP Photo/Makiya Seminera, File)

University of North Carolina board cuts DEI funding, diverts money to public safety

By Makiya Seminera - Associated Press

Tailei Qi, the graduate student suspected in the fatal shooting of a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty member, makes his first appearance at the Orange County Courthouse in Hillsborough, N.C., Aug. 29, 2023. Qi has been found unfit for trial after two mental evaluations, a judge ruled Monday, Nov. 27. (AP Photo/Hannah Schoenbaum, File)

University of North Carolina shooting suspect found unfit for trial, sent to mental health facility

By Hannah Schoenbaum - Associated Press

Illustration on curriculum limitations at colleges and universities by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

673 UNC professors object to bill to create new history requirement

By Scott Walker

Students hold protest signs during a gun safety rally at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill days after a shooting on campus, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023, in Chapel Hill, N.C. (AP Photo/Hannah Schoenbaum)

University of North Carolina students rally for gun safety after fatal shooting of faculty member

By Hannah Schoenbaum - Associated Press

Tailei Qi, the graduate student suspected in the fatal shooting of a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty member, makes his first appearance at the Orange County Courthouse in Hillsborough, N.C., Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023. Qi has been charged by the UNC Police Department with first-degree murder and possession of a weapon on educational property, both felony charges. (AP Photo/Hannah Schoenbaum)

University of North Carolina graduate student charged in killing of faculty advisor denied bond

By Hannah Schoenbaum, Gary D. Robertson and Sarah Rankin - Associated Press

Law enforcement and first responders gather on South Street near the Bell Tower on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus in Chapel Hill, N.C., Monday, Aug. 28, 2023, after a report of an "armed and dangerous person" on campus. (Kaitlin McKeown/The News & Observer via AP)

One killed in shooting at UNC, suspect in custody: Report

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

People protest outside of the Supreme Court in Washington, Thursday, June 29, 2023. The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down affirmative action in college admissions, declaring race cannot be a factor and forcing institutions of higher education to look for new ways to achieve diverse student bodies. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Supreme Court rules race-based affirmative action unconstitutional

By Stephen Dinan and Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Tom Ross, center, a former president of the University of North Carolina system, speaks while former UNC system President Margaret Spellings, left, and Gov. Roy Cooper, right, listen at an Executive Mansion news conference on Monday, June 12, 2023, in Raleigh, N.C. Ross and Spellings were co-chairs of a commission that examined governance issues for the UNC system (AP Photo/Gary D. Robertson)

North Carolina Republicans seek to strip Gov. Roy Cooper of elections board control

By Gary D. Robertson - Associated Press

Activists demonstrate as the Supreme Court hears oral arguments on a pair of cases that could decide the future of affirmative action in college admissions, in Washington, Oct. 31, 2022. As the Supreme Court decides the fate of affirmative action, most Americans say the court should allow consideration of race as part of the admissions process, yet few believe students' race should play a significant role in decisions. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Most in U.S. say don’t ban race in college admissions, but its role should be small: AP-NORC poll

By Collin Binkley and Emily Swanson - Associated Press

University of North Carolina President Molly Broad, center, talks with former systems president, William Friday, left, and Gov. Jim Hunt, right, before her formal inauguration, April 29, 1998, in Raleigh, N.C. Corbett Broad, the first female president of the University of North Carolina system and who later became a top advocate for U.S. higher education, died early Monday, Jan. 2, 2023, according to a statement from her family. She was age 81. (AP Photo/Karen Tam, File)

Molly Broad, UNC’s first female system president, dies at 81

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Members of the Supreme Court sit for a new group portrait following the addition of Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, at the Supreme Court building in Washington, Oct. 7, 2022. Bottom row, from left, Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts, Associate Justice Samuel Alito, and Associate Justice Elena Kagan. Top row, from left, Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Supreme Court’s two Black justices diverge on affirmative action

By Stephen Dinan and Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Harvard students Shruthi Kumar, left, and Muskaan Arshad, join a rally with other activists as the Supreme Court hears oral arguments on a pair of cases that could decide the future of affirmative action in college admissions, in Washington, Monday, Oct. 31, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Supreme Court eyes end of race-based preferences in school admissions

By Alex Swoyer and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Members of the Supreme Court sit for a new group portrait following the addition of Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, at the Supreme Court building in Washington, Oct. 7, 2022. Bottom row, from left, Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts, Associate Justice Samuel Alito, and Associate Justice Elena Kagan. Top row, from left, Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Justices’ past affirmative action views, in their own words

By Jessica Gresko - Associated Press

In this Aug. 25, 2020, file photo, the 'Fearless Girl' bronze sculpture, commissioned by State Street Global Advisors, looks towards the New York Stock Exchange from its roadside perch in New York. Amid the push to get U.S. boardrooms to look more like companies’ customers and employees, advocates are finally seeing just how steep the task will be. Boards of directors at publicly traded U.S. companies are much more white and much less diverse than the overall population, often starkly so. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

Nasdaq’s diversity rule for corporate boards faces legal challenge

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

An American flag waves in front of the Supreme Court building on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Nov. 2, 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Harvard affirmative action challengers want Supreme Court to go far beyond academia

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Ketanji Brown Jackson speaks during an event on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, April 8, 2022, celebrating the confirmation of Jackson as the first Black woman to reach the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has taken a step that will allow new Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman on the court, to take part in a case that could lead to the end of the use of race in college admissions.(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Supreme Court’s first Black female justice expected to weigh in on affirmative action

By Alex Swoyer and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this Nov. 5, 2020, file photo, the Supreme Court is seen in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Supreme Court schedules affirmative action cases for Oct. 31

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

The Supreme Court Building is pictured in Washington, April 4, 2017. Some Indigenous women, whose tribes' have a complicated relationship with abortion, have mourned the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court case that granted women the right to end a pregnancy. But for them and other women of color, losing reproductive rights is nothing new. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Big Tech asks Supreme Court to keep affirmative action

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones poses for a portrait at the headquarters of The Associated Press in New York on Friday, Dec. 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Robert Bumsted, File)

Hannah-Jones: Settlement to support Black faculty, students

By Tom Foreman Jr. - Associated Press

College Admission Discrimination Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Time to stop racial discrimination in college admissions

By Hans von Spakovsky