Colleges Urged to Control Spending
If colleges do not get better control of their spending priorities, many Americans could be priced out of a college education, according to the U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs.
Costs
American colleges and universities spend billions of dollars a year from state, federal, and private sources. The following articles identify ways to cut costs and ensure that public investment in higher education provides value to students, taxpayers, and society.
States use online learning to save space, cut spending
Feb 3, 2000 ·
Martin Center Staff
What has been called a “crisis” by some higher education leaders in North Carolina is being viewed as an opportunity to cut state spending and improve services in Washington State.
Widespread Opposition to Broad’s Plan, Little Talk of Spending Priorities
Jan 20, 2000 ·
Martin Center Staff
UNC President Molly Broad’s latest proposal to win money for the University of North Carolina garnered opposition from some unlikely opponents last week, with those generally supportive of Broad’s quests offering perhaps the harshest criticism. Even strong opponents, however, remain stalwart in their demands that the legislature provide more money for N.C. universities.
The ‘unthinkable’ and Molly Broad
Jan 13, 2000 ·
Jon Sanders
In a contest of crises, the floods of Floyd won out over the underfunding of UNC. Or so it would appear. Certainly the state faced a crisis in the hurricane’s wake. But is the situation facing UNC right now a crisis?
UNC’s search benefits from candidates’ withdrawals
Jan 6, 2000 ·
Martin Center Staff
The search for the next chancellor for UNC-Chapel Hill has been extended. UNC President Molly Broad and the search committee blame the delay on the publication of four candidates’ names in December, which caused two of them to remove their names from consideration.
Entrepreneurship in education is on the rise.
Three issues from 1999 to watch in 2000
Dec 30, 1999 ·
Martin Center Staff
The beginning of a new year is really only the progression of one day after the next, natural and mundane, but human custom has made it so that we note it as the crossing of a threshold. This customary observance is heightened now as the upcoming threshold is especially (but only) numerically significant (from year 1999 to year 2000). Here Clarion Call bows to custom to mark this crossing by presenting three higher-education issues of 1999 that will bear watching in 2000.
UMass Student Concocts Sexual Assault for “The Cause”
Dec 23, 1999 ·
Martin Center Staff
A University of Massachusetts at Amherst (UMass) student who reported being sexually assaulted during a November anti-rape student rally has admitted she made up the attack.
High Salary Increases Lead To Other Problems at Community Colleges
Dec 16, 1999 ·
Martin Center Staff
Even as many North Carolina colleges and universities are asking for more money to raise faculty salaries, several community colleges say they need less money for faculty pay, but more money for other “needs.”
UNC, Public College Students Post High Family Income
Dec 12, 1999 ·
Martin Center Staff
On average, students at the “flagship” universities of state college systems have a higher family income than their counterparts at private colleges and universities, according to a recent Washington Post report. The University of North Carolina is no exception.
A growing percentage of students are opting out of graduate school in order to stake their claim on the booming Internet business, according to a recent New York Times report.
UNC’s Partnership Raises Questions
Dec 9, 1999 ·
Martin Center Staff
Sam Houston, executive director of UNC’s Center for School Leadership Development (NCCSLD), who had earlier told Clarion Call that NCCSLD was not in partnership with the International Center for Leadership in Education and its leader, Dr. Willard Daggett, went back on his word this week. In a report to the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee on Tuesday, Houston said that NCCSLD’s relationship with Daggett’s firm was, indeed, a “partnership.”