Should University Flagships Go It Alone?
…the University of North Carolina system; Georgia Tech in the University of Georgia System, to name a few–are members of integrated state systems, and clearly outshine such autonomous state flagships…
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A Desperate Defense of Affirmative Action
…SATs and often open-enrollment policies (North Carolina Central University, South Carolina State, Prairie View A&M, and most of the more than one-thousand community colleges). Racial preferences are almost exclusively…
Two Campus Free-Speech Cases Aimed at the Supreme Court
…a North Carolina federal district judge sitting temporarily on the appeals panel, wrote for the court. So—should the Supreme Court (if it agrees to take the cases), overturn the…
Every Professor an Entrepeneur?
…the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Bart Ehrman, author of the Christianity-debunking “Misquoting Jesus,” regularly enrolls 350 students in his Religion 22 class. And Michael Mann, global-warming promoter and inventor…
Honoring One of the Perpetrators at Duke
…the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Bart Ehrman, author of the Christianity-debunking “Misquoting Jesus,” regularly enrolls 350 students in his Religion 22 class. And Michael Mann, global-warming promoter and inventor…
The Wild, Ethically Dubious Allegations at Wesleyan
…anything wrong, still refused to speak about what had happened.” In fact, nearly two dozen lacrosse players voluntarily spoke to investigators from the North Carolina attorney general’s office, and all…
Can States Restrict Their “Supportive Nudges” to Graduate Students By Race?
…SREB serves your state. It is supported by annual appropriations from the member states and by funds from philanthropic foundations and state and federal agencies. The current Chair is North…
Does ”Equity” Require Preferential Treatment for Men?
…it also holds true even in reasonably small areas like the Raleigh-Durham region and Charlotte in North Carolina (both 14% more), and Jacksonville, Fla. (6%). Do young men now need…
Big Gaps In Two Big Gap Studies
…gap in success rates separates white and African-American students, who graduate at 52 percent and 30 percent, respectively. But at a peer institution, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, the graduation rates…
White House to Impose “Fairness” on Education Spending
…it will not seem that way to strong state universities — North Carolina, Virginia, and Texas come to mind — that compete with peers in Michigan, Wisconsin, and California but…
The Quiet Preference for Men in Admissions
…It’s a potential death spiral of which most college administrators and governing boards are well aware. In 2005 trustees at the University of North Carolina’s flagship campus at Chapel Hill…
Sustainability—More Cash and a Softer Side
…a School of Sustainability, and Appalachian State University in North Carolina, which offers four different sustainable-development majors plus a minor. In the fall of 2009 Johns Hopkins University began offering…
A Dose of Poetic Justice at Cornell
…by voting against a DA vigorous, perhaps even questionable, in his efforts to prosecute the ‘innocent.’” Later on, when North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper proclaimed that the three players…
The Skewing of American History
…big-name public institutions are equally depressing: the University of Minnesota (20 percent); the University of North Carolina (21 percent); Indiana University (21 percent); the University of Maryland (17 percent). Iowa…
Remarkable Fact Of The Day
At the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, students can minor in social and economic justice without taking a single economics course.—Reported by E. Frank Stephenson on the Division of…
Why Don’t More Graduate
…a lot of attention to what they term the “undermatching” of high quality students with lower quality institutions. According to them, in North Carolina alone in 1999 there were about…
Liberals For Free Speech At UNC
…down, knocking over tables or breaking a window; the president or chancellor of the university promises to investigate, but no penalty descends on the censors. At the University of North…
When Pork Goes To College
…in the congressional education barrel, many of which appear to be connected to innovation only in the loosest sense of that word: — $300,000 to Livingstone College in North Carolina…
Scandal: It’s Not Just For Government
Have you heard about: The UNC job created for the wife of the former governor of North Carolina (with an $850,000 contract)? The underqualified applicants admitted to the University of…
How To Prevent Speech From Being Suppressed
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill finally got it right. Instead of letting radical protesters chase an invited conservative speaker out of his lecture hall–as they did with…
A Call for “Intentional Upheaval”
…the United States and Iraq. Seven Iraqi university presidents will soon be meeting with leaders at North Carolina State University, Texas A&M, and Ohio State. This is a wonderful, positive…
Let’s Cut The Administrative Fat
…“treatment” program.) After recent allegations of racist slurs on a North Carolina State University “Free Expression Tunnel,” the school’s Chancellor appointed a Campus Climate Task Force. In other words, if…
College Green? Bah Humbug.
…higher learning has an office of campus sustainability. What sustainability means, however, is often somewhat vague. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill pledges to advance “the triple bottom…
Abandoning The SAT: Why?
…Forest University in North Carolina and Smith College in Massachusetts announced that they would no longer require their applicants to submit their scores on either the SAT or the ACT….
Compressed Courses Cut Costs
Rockingham Community College in North Carolina has shifted the schedule of all of its course offerings to reduce the cost of commuting. Classes held five times a week will be…
Mandatory Summer Reading (Yawn)
…current staples of freshman summer programs. Such book choices have sparked off-campus political controversy—as when the public University of North Carolina’s Chapel Hill campus in 2003 required its freshmen to…
Money For Even Preachier J-Schools?
…on issues relating to American Indians and a interdepartmental collaboration at the University of North Carolina to design courses on aspects of globalization—make it clear that this means liberal journalism….
Trainwreck At William And Mary
…for the Presidency. Two of them were deans currently serving at the College, in education and law, and the dean of the law school at the University of North Carolina….
Review: “Feminists Say The Darndest Things”
Feminists Say The Darndest Things, Mike Adams, Sentinel, February 2008 Mike Adams, Professor of Criminology at the University of North Carolina – Wilmington, is nothing if not a provocateur; few…
No America, Please, We’re Global
…line: “What exactly do we mean when we say ‘global studies’?” (the speaker was Niklaus Steiner, director of the Center for Global Initiatives at the University of North Carolina at…