Protecting the “Job Drivers”
Community colleges will try differential state funding, which gives more money to more technical classes.
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How Does Your University Measure Up?
The Pope Center and ACTA examine the state of general education at colleges and universities in North Carolina.
A Proposal for Cutting the 2011 UNC Budget
This report provides the Pope Center’s criteria for cutting university budgets, along with specific cuts to the 2011-13 UNC budget.
Starving the Academic Beast
Huge state deficits and a changing of the political guard mean that public university systems must downsize. The Pope Center provides some criteria for deciding what to cut.
Spare the Community Colleges
North Carolina’s legislature should reverse a tradition of being less generous to the state’s community colleges during budget season.
Poll: What’s Wrong with Higher Education?
We want your opinion. What’s the biggest challenge to improving higher education?
Evangelists for Diversity
Offices of diversity are one thing the UNC system can do without.
Scholarly Study–of Monty Python?
Academic papers on Monty Python are just the kind of thing the troupe would have lampooned.
Should UNC Tuition Go Up?
Here’s your chance to weigh in.
Higher Education Needs More than “Perestroika”
A renowned higher education expert wants a transformation, but his prescriptions don’t strike at the root.