How UNC Can Shrink Its Budget
North Carolina’s state appropriations must be cut, and here is one way.
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Losing Trust in Higher Education
College leaders and professors who appear more interested in themselves than in education are doing great harm.
An Enrollment Cap at UNC?
Limiting the number of students at UNC would reduce costs and improve academic quality.
Subdued Beginnings
The times are somber and the commencement speakers are serious.
How UNC Spends Its Money
We report on how much the university system spends on actual teaching as opposed to non-student expenditures.
Chancellor Thorp’s Installation Address Offers Insights into His Thinking
Chancellor has one promising idea and two dead-ends in his speech
Online Education Emerging, with UNC in the Lead
Long held in low regard, Web-based courses are becoming mainstream.
Caveat emptor, suckers
House Bill 1183 would give the children of illegal immigrants the privilege of attending UNC schools and community colleges in N.C. for in-state tuition. Looks like yet another talking point used to sell us on the $3.1 billion bond referendum for higher education in 2000 could turn out to be a big fat whopper.
Franklin & Granted: On (Not) Getting By at UNC
2002: “How many small cuts do you take before you cry out in pain?”
1992: “The state’s flagship university is being nickel-and-dimed to death.”
UNC faculty really did seek openness on the Edwards deal
The letter, for which we at the Pope Center cannot vouch and which could be an expedient hoax, begins: “WE THE UNDERSIGNED FACULTY are writing to express our concerns about the ongoing secret negotiations between high-level university administrators and John Edwards regarding the ‘poverty’ center.”