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…
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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.
The latest dip in the roller-coaster ride of N.C. State’s library improvements
Hours and services will be restored to D.H. Hill Library on the campus of North Carolina State University, school officials have announced. Public pressure, student activism, work between library officials and the provost’s office, and the state legislature’s joint conference committee budget report all contributed to a restoration of library services, which will be effective Oct. 16.
UNC board votes to increase student group’s budget by 6,600 percent
The Board of Governors of the University of North Carolina this week approved a systemwide, $1 increase in student fees to fund the UNC Association of Student Governments. The increase will raise the UNCASG’s budget from $2,500 to $165,000 — an increase of 6,600 percent.