America’s Growing Student Debt Mountain
Lenient rules encourage students to keep borrowing, ignore costs, and hunt for “public service” jobs.
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A Punch List for UNC
The system’s new website sets the stage for transparency, but the information is missing.
In One State, Kinder and Gentler Commencements
North Carolina avoids controversy and emphasizes the positive.
Governance Newsletter – April 2014
In this issue, we take a look at the NC General Assembly’s shift towards “performance funding” for the UNC higher education system. We also examine the Board of Governor’s need…
Racial Preferences Are Falling
The Supreme Court’s Schuette decision reflects the waning support for policies that favor certain groups just to increase “diversity.”
Bachelor’s Degrees at Community Colleges?
In an unexpected move, four college presidents present the idea to the North Carolina legislature.
Lessons Learned
My two-year program in paralegal studies had its good points, but some bad ones as well.
Higher Education Already Has a Leftist Bias
But a new book argues that it should have more bias to overcome society’s “conservative” indoctrination.
A College Copes with Change
A former women’s college in Raleigh, North Carolina, reinvents itself, but the process is far from smooth.
Ignoring the Elephant in the Room
A Pew Research study claims that those who don't go to college penalize themselves.