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.
Articles by Jay Schalin
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.
Doing What Comes Naturally: Economic Growth
Boston is a center of high-tech industry because it is a good place for it, not because politicians and academics tried to make it one.
Before Google, Apple, and Intel: The Real Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley’s transformation to a hi-tech Mecca happened more by random events than by design, and was a long time in the making.
Misunderestimating Duke’s Hookup Culture
Duke University’s president demonstrates cluelessness with a lukewarm attempt to halt the school’s “rich kids gone wild” image.
A Conversation on Innovation with a “Master Inventor”
A computer engineer with over seventy patents to his credit discusses the nature of innovation, universities, and “the next big thing.”
Inquiring Minds Ought to Know
UNC-Chapel Hill’s denial of a request for lists of professors’ publications highlights a need for greater transparency and legal clarity.
The Potemkin Enrollment Policy
Like the infamous Russian village, UNC’s newly proposed enrollment policy is all facade and no substance.