Braking a Runaway Train
A budget proposal by a North Carolina legislative committee reverses the UNC system’s longterm explosive growth trend.
Author Profile
Jay Schalin
Jay Schalin joined the Martin Center in August 2007. A Philadelphia native, he began his writing career as a freelance journalist for the Asbury Park Press in New Jersey and wrote for several other papers in New Jersey and Delaware. Schalin has a B.S. in computer science from Richard Stockton College in New Jersey and an M.A. in economics from the University of Delaware.His articles have appeared in Forbes, the Washington Times, Fox News Online, U.S. News and World Report, Investor's Business Daily, Human Events, and American Thinker. His op-eds have been published by the McClatchy News Service and the Raleigh News & Observer. He has been interviewed on ESPN, National Public Radio, and UNC-TV, and his work has been featured on ABC News and Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor.
Schalin is a member of the National Association of Scholars and is on the Board of Directors for the Academy of Philosophy and Letters.
Articles by Jay Schalin
Hardly an Academic Sweatshop
A common-sense look at UNC faculty workloads indicates that professors teach less than the system claims.
Rainy Day Education Funding
North Carolina’s new legislative majority may clean up some shaky financial practices in its higher education systems.
Veiled Intentions
The man behind the controversial “Ground Zero Mega-Mosque” spoke at UNC-Chapel Hill, leaving behind more questions than answers.
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.
Liberating Chapel Hill
Cutting UNC’s flagship campus loose from the system will help solve some major problems with little negative impact.
Just Another Radical Obama Appointee
Duke professor Cathy Davidson, nominated for the National Council on the Humanities, is another in a long line of highly questionable Obama appointees.
An Accident of Planned Growth
North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park became a model for government economic development efforts—unfortunately, however, a misleading one.