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.

Mar 9, 2011 · Cary Nelson

What Faculty Unions Do

Cary Nelson argues that faculty unions accomplish more than collective bargaining.

Mar 7, 2011 · Carl Bankston III

Adrift or Foundering?

Students are adrift because college was never intended for mass production of degrees.

Mar 4, 2011 · George Leef

Ten Top Books on Higher Education

Do you agree that these are the best books to understand what is going on in America’s colleges and universities?

Feb 27, 2011 · Duke Cheston

Protecting the “Job Drivers”

Community colleges will try differential state funding, which gives more money to more technical classes.

Feb 24, 2011 · Jenna A. Robinson

How Does Your University Measure Up?

The Pope Center and ACTA examine the state of general education at colleges and universities in North Carolina.

Feb 22, 2011 · Jay Schalin

Starving the Academic Beast

Huge state deficits and a changing of the political guard mean that public university systems must downsize. The Pope Center provides some criteria for deciding what to cut.

Feb 20, 2011 · Jay Schalin

Spare the Community Colleges

North Carolina’s legislature should reverse a tradition of being less generous to the state’s community colleges during budget season.

Feb 18, 2011 · Jenna A. Robinson

Poll: What’s Wrong with Higher Education?

We want your opinion. What’s the biggest challenge to improving higher education?

Feb 16, 2011 · Duke Cheston

Evangelists for Diversity

Offices of diversity are one thing the UNC system can do without.

Feb 10, 2011 · Jenna A. Robinson

Should UNC Tuition Go Up?

Here’s your chance to weigh in.