Liz Schlemmer
Liz Schlemmer is WUNC's Education Policy Reporter, a fellowship position supported by the A.J. Fletcher Foundation. She has an M.A. from the UNC Chapel Hill School of Media & Journalism and a B.A. in history and anthropology from Indiana University.
She has previously served as a temporary Morning Edition producer and intern at WUNC and as a news intern at St. Louis Public Radio. Liz is originally from Indiana, where she grew up with a large extended family of educators.
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Protesters and mourners gathered in Elizabeth City, N.C., Sunday afternoon to pay their respects to Andrew Brown Jr., the Black man who was shot and killed by Pasquotank County sheriff’s deputies serving drug-related search and arrest warrants two weeks ago.
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North Carolina A&T State University has seen an almost six-fold increase in donations — and the fiscal year isn't even over yet. Other HBCUs are also reporting a fundraising boom.
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College admissions officers have long debated whether it's better not to require SAT or ACT scores. Due to COVID, Duke University lifted its testing requirement and received a deluge of applications.
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The UNC Pembroke School of Health Sciences used federal funding to purchase two mobile clinics so nursing students could administer shots in rural communities across Robeson County.
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UNC Chapel Hill Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz responded to questions about his involvement in the $2.5 million settlement involving the Silent Sam statue. He said the UNC System Board of Governors asked Vice Chancellor for Public Affairs Clayton Somers to work with them to find a resolution for the Silent Sam monument after the BOG rejected the university's proposal for the statue.
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As a North Carolina native, Brevard College junior Maverick Whitley always figured he'd stay in state to teach. But when he learned the General Assembly is ending retirement health benefits for new state employees, he started to recalculate.
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Staffing schools for in-person learning hasn't been easy. In North Carolina, the pressure to keep schools open during the coronavirus pandemic has left some teachers without any good options.
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Dozens of UNC-Chapel Hill faculty have signed an open letter urging the university to reverse course and offer only remote classes this spring. The university's top spokesperson says the reopening plans could be subject to change until early January.
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It's impossible to quantify exactly how many teachers in North Carolina have been denied the option to teach remotely during the coronavirus pandemic, as decisions are changing every day, but it's very likely in the thousands.
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North Carolina A&T State University is the largest historically Black college or university, or HBCU, in the country. With 12,000 students, it's...