To reach far-flung towns, private planes can be indispensable. The University of North Carolina system, for instance, has an air fleet to shuttle doctors around the state. UNC Air Operations … Continue reading “Sky-High Athletics: UNC Spends $125,000 on Private Planes for Recruiting”
Faculty salaries at public universities vary widely by rank and by institution type. The widest range of salaries occurs at doctoral universities with the highest amount of research activity (like … Continue reading “Did You Know? Average Salaries for Professors by Rank”
Editor’s note: This article is adapted from a December 6 speech at an event hosted by the National Association of Scholars and the Martin Center on social justice and identity … Continue reading “The Continual Creep of Social Justice into Higher Education”
The College Scorecard, a Department of Education initiative that publishes data on student debt and earnings after graduation for thousands of schools, just got a major update. Previously, the Scorecard’s … Continue reading “The Majors that Pay and the Degrees that Don’t for Graduates”
A college endowment is a fund where an institution keeps its financial assets and donations and can invest that money for the college’s long-term stability. In North Carolina, the largest … Continue reading “Did You Know? The Biggest NC Endowments Keep Growing”
Scholars gathered October 24 and 25 at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro to discuss free speech—and focused on its alleged pernicious effects. The conference’s takeaway was that the … Continue reading “An Anti-Free Speech Conference in Greensboro”
A letter from the federal Department of Education has sparked yet another controversy on the campuses of Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This time, … Continue reading “No, Academia, Title VI Funding Is Not for Your Pleasure”
An important new front in the culture war has opened up at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, one with major implications about intellectual diversity and how universities … Continue reading “UNC Board Steps Up to Defend Civil Discourse on Campus”
Jumping right into a four-year university after high school isn’t for everybody. There are numerous reasons why, for some students, attending a community college and then transferring to a four-year … Continue reading “Advising and Peer Connections: Helping Transfer Students Earn a College Degree”
Editor’s note: A previous version of this article incorrectly reported the percentage of in-state freshmen at UNC-Chapel Hill. The correct figure is 82 percent. For a lot of students in … Continue reading “Did You Know? Most UNC System Grads Stay in North Carolina”