No, Academia, Title VI Funding Is Not for Your Pleasure
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,…
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UNC Board Steps Up to Defend Civil Discourse on Campus
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…
Advising and Peer Connections: Helping Transfer Students Earn a College Degree
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…
Did You Know? Most UNC System Grads Stay in North Carolina
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…
Why Do So Many North Carolina Colleges Have Such Low Graduation Rates?
The era of the four-year bachelor’s degree is over; today, only top students graduate within the traditional college timeline. Few North Carolina colleges can graduate the majority of their students…
Did You Know? UNC System Bucks Trend Favoring Out-of-State Students
Flagship universities such as the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and other public universities were created by their states primarily to support the higher educational needs of in-state…
UNC-Chapel Hill: A Sanctuary Campus for Antifa on the Taxpayer’s Dime
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Edmund Burke The continued employment of an unhinged, violent anarchist as a lecturer at…
Why Is UNC Funding a ‘Hub for Social Justice?’
Campus protests started in the 1960s, but protests on today’s college campuses have a different vibe. While protests in the past pitted students against university leadership, protests in the present…
Repairing Academia’s Crisis of Meaning
Traditionally, higher education introduced students to life’s most fundamental questions: “What is good?”; “What is true?”; “Do our lives have meaning beyond the material?”; and so on. The focus used…
Commencements Show the UNC System’s Struggles with Political Neutrality
In 2017, the North Carolina legislature passed House Bill 527 (now State Law 2017-196) to foster open inquiry in the state’s public colleges and universities. One of the provisions ordered…