What Are Faculty Paid, and Why?
The Pope Center’s effort to make the UNC system more transparent to the public reveals a lot but raises more questions.
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.
Graduation Blues
Jan 31, 2010 ·
Jay Schalin
The debate over low graduation rates is shaping up like an old Miller Lite commercial–one side shouts, “more money!” and the other shouts, “higher admissions standards!”
WASC: Accreditor Foxes Guard Collegiate Henhouse
Jan 25, 2010 ·
Tony Fels
Former University of San Francisco History Department chair charges accreditors with overlooking a breach of ethics.
Seven Years, Six Scandals
Jan 21, 2010 ·
Jane S. Shaw
Let’s not be complacent about the state of integrity at University of North Carolina campuses.
“Higher” Education Has Been “Lowered”
Jan 19, 2010 ·
George Leef
A new book by an unconventional sociologist diagnoses the problem and prescribes the medicine.
Equalizing Outcomes Through Program Proliferation
Jan 18, 2010 ·
Jay Schalin
The UNC system hopes to improve graduation rates by expanding expensive “handholding” programs for students who are not ready for college-level work.
Gloria Steinem Lectures at East Carolina
Jan 15, 2010 ·
Anthony Papalas
Steinem gets $10,000 but students only get uninformed anti-capitalist propaganda.
Inquiring Minds Ought To Know
Jan 12, 2010 ·
Jay Schalin
The search for a new chancellor at N.C. State should have been conducted more openly, given the reason that the position was vacant (corruption).
Do As I Say, Not As I Do
Jan 10, 2010 ·
Jane S. Shaw
Academic administrators admit that they can't stop raising tuition, even when they know they ought to be controlling costs.
Appointing the Usual Suspects
Jan 7, 2010 ·
Jay Schalin
Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s appointments to a higher education advisory board make a statement: Diversity is all that matters.