(The Center Square) – Federal funding remains available to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, says a settlement for litigation between the nation’s oldest public university and the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Department of Education.
That funding could be in the form of grants, contracts or research awards.
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