N.C. State’s new idea of diversity: a ‘conflict of ideas’
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.
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Dropping Scores to Admit More Minorities Means “Strange Bedfellows”
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
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
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.