The Four Perspectives of Higher Education Policy Explained
Explaining higher education policy is never easy (even to people who are involved in it). Over the years, while training young writers for the Martin Center, I have come up…
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UNC Faculty Teaching Loads Report Is Insufficient for Making Policy
Reliable information is a prerequisite for good management. How can you make intelligent decisions if you are basing them on shaky information? This has been an ongoing problem for the…
How Not to Recover from a Crisis, Mizzou Edition
The University of Missouri, where I teach and which I dearly love, is in crisis. Freshman enrollment at the university’s Columbia campus (Mizzou) is down by a whopping 35% from…
What’s to be done about “low-productivity” degree programs?
What’s to be done about “low-productivity” degree programs?
North Carolina’s latest higher education budget has some good features, but could be better.
North Carolina’s latest higher education budget has some good features, but could be better.
How UNC Can Shrink Its Budget
North Carolina’s state appropriations must be cut, and here is one way.
Budget Season Is Upon Us
Here’s a breakdown of North Carolina governor Pat McCrory’s 2014-15 higher education budget proposal.
UNC Budget Brawl Shaping Up
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.
What if they held a rally and nobody came?
They promised 500 and delivered … a handful.
UNC’s Federal ‘Overhead’ Left Untouched — For Now
Last year, 15 universities comprising the University of North Carolina system (excluding the N.C. School of the Arts) received $123.6 million in what are known as “overhead receipts” from federal research grants. That money, which the UNC system prefers to call “facilities and administrative receipts,” is money given on top of the actual grant amount that is intended to defray the administrative and institutional costs in conducting the actual research.