In 2014, North Carolina State University became the new home for PowerAmerica, a $140 million dollar project aimed at promoting research in the advanced electronics industry. Just two years later,…
Imagine a college student who has just formed a student group. In order to generate interest in this group, the student goes to the student union and passes out flyers…
General education does not get the respect it deserves on U.S. campuses.
North Carolina State University’s new Global Luxury Management program smacks of superficiality.
Despite the economy, the University of North Carolina still has plenty of construction projects going forth.
The North Carolina Cooperative Extension has strayed from its original agricultural mission.
A list of the major events of Robert Boren’s battle with North Carolina State University.
When the 2001 spring semester began at North Carolina State University, Robert Boren was just a student looking forward to beginning his pursuit of a masters in education counseling. Little did Boren know, however, that one interaction with a professor would lead his grades being altered on his transcript, his chances at graduate education crippled, his pleas for answers about those being ignored, and his being threatened with arrest for trespassing.
Critics of higher education often write about leftist bias in the classroom, barely literate students who somehow gain admission, dumbing down of course content, and academically disengaged students. Sometimes, however, those problems write themselves.
An e-mail sent to faculty at North Carolina State warned against the Pope Center’s upcoming conference on academic freedom, because speaker David Horowitz’s “Academic Bill of Rights” contains “carefully chosen language” that “does not fully expose the agenda behind it.” Fortunately for N.C. State, the professor behind the e-mail did know “the real agenda — imposing political litmus tests on course content.” Ye cats!