Merging Community Colleges Offers More Gain than Pain
A sensible proposal to cut administrative costs gets some resistance from community college administrators.
Articles by Jay Schalin
The Little Budget that Could (Avoid New Taxes)
North Carolina’s probable new higher education budget is a mixed bag with lots of questions yet to be answered.
A Common-Sense Look at UNC Faculty Workloads
This paper measures the teaching loads of faculty in the University of North Carolina (UNC) system.
The Angry Ones
Professors Ellen Lewin of the University of Iowa and Scott Denham of Davidson College recently broke with academic norms and lashed out directly at conservative students.
Braking a Runaway Train
A budget proposal by a North Carolina legislative committee reverses the UNC system’s longterm explosive growth trend.
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.