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Is America's College Graduation Rate a "Huge National Problem?"
A recent report published by The Education Trust entitled “A Matter of Degrees: Improving Graduation Rates in Four-Year Colleges and Universities” argues that we ought to be deeply concerned over the fact that only about 60 percent of the students who enroll in four-year institutions in the U.S. earn a bachelor’s degree within six years.... More »
June 09, 2004

2004 short session features a slate of higher education bills
RALEIGH – Within the initial weeks of the 2004 short session, General Assembly members introduced several pieces of legislation that involved higher education issues in the state.... More »
June 04, 2004

House releases budget proposal
RALEIGH – University of North Carolina system’s funding will be increased by more than $46 million, according to the House budget bill that was released Friday.... More »
June 04, 2004

N.C. State doesn't need a chancellor afraid of public scrutiny
Now they're signing confidentiality agreements at North Carolina State University to keep the public from learning anything about the chancellor search at the state's largest public university.... More »
May 28, 2004

'Price creep' on chancellor pay extends from California to Carolina
This spring Chancellor Marye Anne Fox surprised folks at North Carolina State University and the UNC system when she announced that she had accepted the chancellorship at the University of California at San Diego. It didn’t take long, however, for people at UNC to find an old foe to blame for Fox’s departure: low pay.... More »
May 20, 2004

Campus bias forum mixes politics with academic integrity
DURHAM – North Carolina is not the only state where campus bias is a major concern.... More »
May 17, 2004

Legislators review proposed education budget
RALEIGH – Criticism of proposed cuts in community college funding was among the topics addressed by legislators during a meeting Wednesday on adjustments to the state’s education spending plans.... More »
May 12, 2004

Budget adjustment proposal released
Higher education spending in North Carolina would increase by nearly $112 million, according to budget figures presented during a Joint Appropriations Committee meeting May 11 at the Legislative Office Building.... More »
May 11, 2004

Albright, Powell highlight N.C.graduation speakers
With the ongoing War on Terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan, graduates at some area colleges will hear, first hand, from two individuals who have been involved in policy decisions regarding Iraq and the Middle East.... More »
May 10, 2004

Forum discusses academic freedom
North Carolina is not the only state where campus bias is a concern. That was evident during a forum held Saturday at Robert “Whit” Whitfield’s campaign headquarters for the 4th District House of Representatives seat. That seat is currently held by Rep. David Price, D-N.C.... More »
May 10, 2004

Legislators ponder $64 million increase in UNC
CHAPEL HILL— Despite worries of it being "cut to the bone," the budget for the University of North Carolina is expected to be a little larger by the time the General Assembly concludes its short session this year.... More »
April 29, 2004

UNC gays define 'perversion': Codes that protect white, heterosexual males, too
RALEIGH— Homosexual activists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are circulating a petition to stop "a perversion of anti-discrimination codes." The perversion? Such codes might actually be used to protect a "white, heterosexual, [C]hristian male," too. Egad!... More »
April 26, 2004

Forget 'Economic Diversity,' Let's Hit the Books Instead
Teaching students takes a backseat to universities' new emphasis on "economic diversity."... More »
April 22, 2004

Efforts to stifle Carolina Students for Life aborted
The pro-life UNC-CH student group Carolina Students for Life are finally included in the Carolina Women's Center's web site and programming. However, the group was excluded for the second year from Women's Week at the university.... More »
April 15, 2004

The Great Pope Center Conspiracy Laid Bare for All the World to See
Call off the dogs, leftist media — your relentless interrogation has broken us. We admit it. It really is just a big conspiracy. We're prepared to spill all. This is our confession.... More »
April 09, 2004

Thought Police Steal a Victory from UNC-Chapel Hill
Free speech had already carried the day when a UNC-Chapel Hill instructor attacked a student by name in a classwide email. So why get the feds involved?... More »
April 07, 2004

Republicans, Democrats Differ Over Ideas for College Price Controls
Two rival bills currently under discussion in the House of Representative Education and Workforce Committee would get the federal government involved in the debate regarding higher education tuition increases.... More »
March 23, 2004

UNC's five-step process to carp about budget 'cuts'
Here we go again. For the UNC system, a struggling economy means budget cuts. So we will be told, repeatedly. But this is by now a familiar process.... More »
March 17, 2004

Report cites campus ignorance of constitutional protection of religious liberty
College students and administrators don't know that the First Amendment protects religious liberty, according to survey results published in a report by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.... More »
March 11, 2004

Comedy, tragedy and diversity — here at the base of the slope
The diversity movement was supposed to promote social harmony, but instead it has furthered racialist thinking, heightened identity-group balkanization, increased resentment, and nurtured a preposterous touchiness and sensitivity to perceived slights. It has also fostered a new generation ever seeking newer ways to divide people. The new diversity extremists are now protesting each other when they fail to recognize the most recently identified groups of the exponentially expanding diversity pantheon. It’s a practice you might call More-Sensitive-Than-Thou.... More »
March 05, 2004

Students: Tuition increases mean ... we pay more!
UNC schools are discussing raising tuition again, some schools by up to $300. For many UNC students, it is their first taste of hardship, and for many parents of UNC students, it could mean their last gasp at shielding their fledglings from hardship. "I may have to give up flying home," says Weinlaud. "And if I drive to Florida for Spring Break, that'll cut out two whole days of partying. It's not fair!"... More »
March 01, 2004

UNC-Chapel Hill suffers from a "raid"
It’s a UNC ritual. Whenever a professor decides to take a better offer at some other university, usually a private one with a vast endowment and enormous alumni contributions, the administration will bemoan the “loss” and express fear over a “crisis” if the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill can’t spend enough money to compete with the top-tier schools. When the little drama is over, the administrators will go back to their offices and hope that they’ve convinced a few more politicians that UNC-CH’s budget must be increased.... More »
February 25, 2004

Christian student's opinion in UNC-CH class labeled
A student in Elyse Crystall’s “Literature and Cultural Diversity” class at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was accused of making “violent, heterosexist comments,” uttering “hate speech” and creating a “hostile environment” in class, according to an e-mail sent to all members of the class by the professor. What the student, identified as Tim, had done was answer the question posed by the day’s lecture, from his perspective as, in the professor’s description, a “white, heterosexual, christian male (sic).”... More »
February 19, 2004

UNC students publish a tear-jerker on tuition increases
The prospect of a tuition increase inspired a few students attending University of North Carolina schools to fight back. Their tack? Inundate the proposal with their tears.... More »
February 13, 2004

AAUP Report Sees Threats to Campus Freedoms from Patriot Act
A report by the American Association of University Professor describes potential threats to academic freedom since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.... More »
February 05, 2004

The fictional world of Arundhati Roy
Indian novelist Arundhati Roy is full of rage against the United States, snidely dismissive of free-market capitalism, and an unrepentant Marxist — and in the halls of academe, she's believed to be one of the most important voices in the world.... More »
February 01, 2004

New Student Orientation and Racial Identification at N.C. State
"Greetings! Your first step towards academic success at NC State University begins with your orientation to the university. The University requires all first-year students to attend New Student Orientation, during which you will be introduced to the academic opportunities available to you. As part of your orientation we invite you to attend the White Folks Symposium. Faculty and staff members, as well as the Symposium Counselors will be on hand to assist you and to answer your questions about NC State’s academic programs and campus activities.... More »
January 29, 2004

UNC-CH opens study abroad program in Castro
This semester the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has begun a semester abroad program in Cuba. UNC-CH officials say they want a "head start" on Cuba for when relations improve between Cuba and the U.S. Critics say the university implies legitimizing a dictatorship.... More »
January 20, 2004

The 'New Age' university: at odds with American core principles
The last third of the twentieth century witnessed the rise and triumph of the post-modern or, better yet, the "New Age University," whose core mission involves bringing America into a new age based on substantially altered principles and social forms.... More »
January 14, 2004

UNCW faculty accuse College Republicans of fighting for right to discriminate
On Nov. 10, the University of North Carolina at Wilmington derecognized the student group the College Republicans. The university took the extreme measure — which involves freezing its funds and disallowing its use of campus facilities — because the CRs refused to add to its constitution the nondiscrimination clause the university requires. The university has also turned down a conservative student group’s application for registration for the same reason.... More »
December 31, 2003