While annual tuition increases are the norm across higher ed, the University of North Carolina system has bucked this trend and kept tuition level for 5 years now. Though some … Continue reading “Did You Know? UNC System Keeps Tuition Frozen for 5th Year”
It can be disheartening to witness how college culture has become inhospitable to viewpoints that fall outside of the ideological mainstream. For example, a March 2020 report by three professors … Continue reading “Teaching Students Civil Dialogue in a Culture Hostile to Free Speech”
Last week, Congress approved the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, a $2.4 trillion spending package that includes $23 billion in aid for public and non-profit colleges and universities. The relief … Continue reading “Did You Know? UNC Schools Will Get Millions in COVID-19 Funding”
For decades, universities have required students to fulfill a foreign language requirement. However, some research has shown that two semesters of a foreign language appears to have no meaningful effect … Continue reading “NC State’s Quixotic Foreign Language Requirement”
North Carolina spends more on its university students than most other states. Recent data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System show that universities in only three other states and … Continue reading “Did You Know? NC Subsidies for Colleges Top 5 Nationally”
Higher ed leaders love committees and training sessions. The technocratic mind that rules campus sees a problem and usually decides that the solution is more resources and education. Once the … Continue reading “Why Do UNC Schools Spend Money on Diversity Training That Doesn’t Work?”
Since 2015, the University of North Carolina system’s Board of Governors (BOG) has endured one controversy after another, beginning with protests over decisions to close three “academic centers” for being … Continue reading “Heavy Is the Head that Wears the Crown”
For decades, law school was a growth industry. Back in 1970, there were 146 law schools with an enrollment of 78,000 students; by 2013, there were 201 schools, enrolling 139,000 … Continue reading “Could Law School Be the Worst Higher Education Investment?”
The Chronicle of Higher Education recently released a report decrying the politicization of public higher education governance, entitled The New Order: How the Nation’s Partisan Divisions Consumed Public-College Boards and … Continue reading “America Wants Its Public Colleges Back and The Chronicle Isn’t Happy About It”
“Sunlight,” Justice Louis Brandeis once wrote, “is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.” Few aspects of the contemporary academy more need enhanced sunlight … Continue reading “Using ‘Transparency’ to Obscure: The Daily Tar Heel and UNC’s Title IX Records”