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House moves to repeal tuition waiver

Jun 16, 2005 · Martin Center Staff

RALEIGH – A provision in the state House’s version of the state budget would eliminate the controversial tuition waiver program for graduates at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics.

Created during the 2003 budget negotiations, the tuition waiver gives NCSSM graduates free tuition if they choose to attend any school in the University of North Carolina system. Sen. Kay Hagan, a Guilford County Democrat, pushed the tuition waiver policy through the General Assembly in 2003, saying at the time that the tuition waiver was one of the best provisions in the budget because it would keep more of North Carolina’s brightest students in the state.

Racial preferences’ fate in North Carolina hinges on Michigan case

Mar 28, 2003 · Jon Sanders

All eyes are on Michigan now, thanks to a case before the Supreme Court involving the University of Michigan Law Schools’ use of racial preferences in admissions decisions. It is a case being watched with extreme interest by N.C. higher-education officials , public and private.

Racial references to blame for black graduation rates at N.C. State, not low aid

Feb 1, 2002 · Jon Sanders

A collection of black student interest groups at North Carolina State University has graded the university on the subjects of enrollment and graduation of black students and recruitment of black faculty. The African-American Student Advisory Council, not surprisingly, gave the university mostly failing grades. In essence, the groups gave N.C. State low marks because the university doesn’t discriminate enough in the way they want it to.

Lawmakers Consider Study of Alternatives to SAT

May 10, 2001 · Martin Center Staff

State education leaders may study replacing the use of the SAT and ACT in college admissions with the state’s end-of-course tests.

N.C. State’s new idea of diversity: a ‘conflict of ideas’

Jan 15, 2001 · Jon Sanders

The diversity that N.C. State’s Rupert Nacoste seeks is one that understands that a university is a place for the conflict of ideas.

Dropping Scores to Admit More Minorities Means “Strange Bedfellows”

Sep 8, 2000 · Martin Center Staff

Large public university systems in California, Texas and Florida may have increased minority enrollment in the face of an end to affirmative action. But the change may not be the result of increased minority test performance. In fact, many schools are dropping the SAT and ACT academic achievement exams as admissions requirements altogether, according to a recent USA Today report, automatically admitting students who are top-ranked in their high schools.

Study Rates N.C. Public Universities Second-Least Rigorous in Country

Sep 23, 1999 · Martin Center Staff

A study by South Carolina Representative Harry C. Stille has rated North Carolina’s public four-year universities the second worst in the nation in academic rigor. Stille’s home state was the only state with poorer academic rigor, according to the study.

UNC System Selects Another Chancellor in Secret

Mar 19, 1999 · Martin Center Staff

N.C. A&T State University should learn who will be its new chancellor on Friday, March 19. As of press time on Thursday, March 18, President Molly Broad’s office had not made public the names of the four candidates for the position, except one name: Harold Martin, vice chancellor for academic affairs at N.C. A&T.