Ignoring Facts Is Not a Strategy
The committee formed to craft the UNC system’s strategic plan only hears one side of the story.
The Problems with Tax Credits
Higher education tax credits have little effect on enrollment but a high cost to taxpayers.
For the Greater Good (of the University)
Ball State University is using eminent domain to expand its boundaries.
Symbols Matter, Reality Doesn’t
What economists call an “agency problem” pervades higher education.
The Taming of the Trustees
Administrative control of the flow of information makes for easily manipulated trustees.
How Bad Are For-Profit Colleges?
Senator Harkin’s investigation discloses serious problems but misses the core problem.
UNC’s Diversity Bureaucracy
A Pope Center survey reveals that diversity offices in the UNC system took few hits during the recent recession.
Getting Proactive with Academic Corruption
UNC-Chapel Hill’s football scandal shows the need for schools to address academic corruption before it makes headlines.
Chapel Hill’s Tangled Web
A UNC-Chapel Hill student’s attempt to get some basic budget information from his school turns sour fast.
Society Shouldn’t Pay for Your Higher Education
Knowledge and skills are not public goods even though some people in society benefit from them.