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The GOP and the University of North Carolina System: A timeline

The Old Well on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus.
The Old Well on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus. Courtesy, UNC-Chapel Hill

Since 2010, Republicans have controlled the North Carolina General Assembly. Scroll through the timeline below to see some significant events in the University of North Carolina System since then.

A right turn: Has GOP influenced how the UNC System is led?

​Have corrosive tensions between conservative leadership and more liberal campus cultures, along with a run of bad press, done enough to actually damage the University of North Carolina System's traditionally stellar quality during a decade of Republican control? Are some groups of people being left behind? Read this series of special commentary from the opinion staff at The Charlotte Observer and The News & Observer.

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Sara Pequeño
Opinion Contributor,
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Sara Pequeño is a Raleigh-based opinion writer for McClatchy’s North Carolina Opinion Team and member of the Editorial Board. She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2019, and has been writing in North Carolina ever since.
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