Proposals to Raise Tuition Draw Criticism
The UNC Board of Governors last week allowed tuition increases at eight campuses, which drew fire from some board members.
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Inquiry #5: A New Model for the Financing of Higher Education in North Carolina
North Carolina has a long history of support for higher education. The state’s financial commitment to higher education is among the strongest in the United States. The high degree of subsidization of higher education in North Carolina has some very important effects. First, it transfers wealth from taxpayers in general to those families who take advantage of the low-cost UNC system. Second, it stimulates the demand for entrance into the system. Third, it works to the detriment of the private colleges and universities in the state. This paper will analyze each effect of North Carolina’s high subsidization of the University system.
“Secrecy” Over Women
Talk of a Women’s Center at UNC-Wilmington has at least one student organization asking questions. According to John Kaiser, Chairman of the Conservative Leadership Group (CLG) at UNC-W, it’s not the idea of having a women’s center at the University that upsets members of his group, but the secrecy surrounding the issue.
Responsibility in learning a hallmark of textbook critic
N.C. State Visiting Professor John L. Hubisz works to rid inaccuracies from textbooks, specifically middle-school science textbooks.
UNC Leaders Want More For Student Aid
Boosting need-based financial aid could help increase overall student enrollment as well as minority enrollment at UNC-system schools, according to Dr. Judith Pulley, Vice President for Academic Planning for UNC. UNC leaders are asking the state for an estimated $19.5 million (for the 2001-03 budget biennium) to boost financial aid. Last year, they received $6.3 million.
UNC, Community Colleges Want Better Salaries
UNC wants $28.5 million and the Community College System $61.5 million in order to make faculty salaries competitive with peer institutions.
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While 41 percent of non-Hispanic whites attend college in the United States, only 22 percent of Hispanic youths go, according to “Education=Success.”
N.C. State’s new idea of diversity: a ‘conflict of ideas’
The diversity that N.C. State’s Rupert Nacoste seeks is one that understands that a university is a place for the conflict of ideas.
Accreditation has no clothes
Accreditation is one of those “the emperor is wearing no clothes” phenomena overloading our educational system.
New Report on Higher Ed Unduly Praises, Criticizes UNC
The report “Measuring Up 2000” makes North Carolina look good in some respects and bad in others. But before rushing to praise state policymakers where the grades are high or criticize them where the grades are low, we need to examine several questionable assumptions that undermine the validity of those grades.
UNC Responds to NCAA Study
On November 30, Clarion Call reported the results of study by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The study found that Duke University athletes post high graduation rates, while graduation rates for UNC athletes were mediocre. But the results for UNC should not be interpreted negatively, says Steve Kirschner, Director of Communications for UNC’s Athletic Department.