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Jed Atkins (Photo by Ava Wharton/The Daily Tar Heel)

Jed Atkins’ tenure as dean and director of the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Civic Life and Leadership began a little over a year ago, and another school is already trying to lure him away.

The Assembly obtained an email that the University of Austin, the “anti-woke” private school that welcomed its first class of students last year, sent earlier this spring to faculty, staff, and students listing Atkins as one of two finalists to become the school’s second president. […]

Matt Hartman is a higher education reporter for The Assembly and co-anchor of our weekly higher education newsletter, The Quad. He was previously a longtime freelance journalist and spent nearly a decade working in higher ed communications before joining The Assembly in 2024.