Chief Diversity Officers Are Sad
The National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education (NADOHE) has published its second “State of the Chief Diversity Officer” (CDO) report. Following up on the 2023 survey, the 2025…
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Another College Costs Calculator
For families across North Carolina, the most confusing part of the college decision is no longer writing application essays but trying to pin down a price that often feels deliberately…
Wyoming’s Higher-Ed Funding Choice
Last week, Cowboy State Daily—Wyoming’s largest news outlet—published a piece titled “UW Seeks Extra $54 Million On Top Of Its $440 Million State-Funded Budget.” Cowboy State Daily’s reporter did a…
UNC Should Keep Tuition Frozen
At the September meeting of the UNC Board of Governors Budget and Finance Committee, the UNC System announced that, for the first time since 2017, institutions may be allowed to…
Anti-Trust in Scientific Journals
Scientific journals emerged in the 17th and 18th centuries as the principal way in which scientists and the public shared scientific ideas and discoveries. Journals met the need for dissemination…
Higher Ed’s Frightening “New Normal”
The already competitive higher-ed marketplace is on the cusp of becoming even more challenging for colleges as they fight to pull from a dwindling pool of eligible students. With the…
How Long Can Universities Defer Maintenance?
You would think that the last thing colleges and universities need is more buildings—given declining enrollments, online classes, and changing attitudes about college. But that is not the way university…
How Goes the Reforming?
As we are in the midst of the short session of the North Carolina legislature, which typically focuses on budgetary matters, we haven’t seen much that pertains to higher education.…
Are Direct Admissions the Future?
The college admissions process can be daunting for high-school students. These young adults must research prospective institutions, consider their desired course of study and career path, determine whether a particular…
Should UNC Wilmington Enroll Fewer Out-of-State Students?
The University of North Carolina at Wilmington (UNCW) is facing a large monetary penalty for enrolling too many out-of-state students two years in a row. One question looms: How does…