This paper by Jay Schalin, the Pope Center’s director of policy analysis, explores the teaching loads of faculty in the University of North Carolina system. It finds that the university overstates the actual teaching duties of professors and recommends that the UNC Board of Governors conduct a comprehensive study of faculty workloads.
The UNC system’s official faculty teaching loads don’t add up.
NC State’s general education program lacks focus and expects too little of students.
In the Pope Center’s latest report, Jay Schalin, director of policy analysis, says that North Carolina State University’s general education program is “deeply flawed” because students can select from courses that are “too narrow,” “trivial,” and often “inspired by political correctness.”
It is time to recognize that academia–including the University of North Carolina–has lost its moral compass.
The University of North Carolina system is cranking up the pressure for higher budgets even as a key state official warns that a large increase is unlikely.
A growing movement to “internationalize” higher education is just another tactic to politicize the curriculum.
The author tries to bring some clarity to the online higher education debate by relating his own experiences.
We respond to criticisms of the report on UNC-Chapel Hill’s “core curriculum.”
Regional accrediting agencies are inadequate and overbearing in their roles as the gate-keepers to federal higher education funds.