- Senate budget: Simply not enoughRALEIGH (May 18, 2023) – It’s simply not enough. The budget proposal released this week by the state Senate is simply not enough to improve public education in North Carolina. There’s ...Read more
- Recognition – finally – for nursing instructors?RALEIGH (May 18, 2023) – While the NC Senate’s proposed budget for 2023-25 has plenty of shortcomings, there’s at least one bright spot for nursing instructors in North Carolina. The Senate ...Read more
- Senate directs $1.4B to rural developmentRALEIGH (May 18, 2023) – The NC Senate’s proposed budget for next year would direct more than $1.4 billion – nearly 5% of the state budget – to a nonprofit ...Read more
- What price control of UNC? $400MRALEIGH (May 18, 2023) – What price control of the UNC System? Apparently about $400 million. The cost of a new “Education Campus” to be built across Salisbury Street in Raleigh from ...Read more
- Art Padilla: Failure to act. Part IBy Art Padilla This is what failure to act looks like. After two decades of excess, inanity, and myopia, universities are now living with the often-predicted consequences that should have been ...Read more
- Art Padilla: Failure to act, Part II – The rest of the universityBy Art Padilla The non-athletic elements of the universities are also seeing their locus of control moving away from their scholarly centers. Failure to act in the face of bureaucratic bloat, ...Read more
- UNC Governance: ‘Everybody wanted less politics’RALEIGH (May 4, 2023) – Gov. Roy Cooper’s UNC Governance Commission began discussing its recommendations this week to make UNC governing boards more representative of the state, more ethical and ...Read more
- House adds a touch of variety to BOGRALEIGH (May 3, 2023) – The NC House made its appointments to the UNC Board of Governors this week – and added a touch of ethnic and political variety in ...Read more
- Vouchers: The privatization of NC public schoolsBy Don Martin and David Rice RALEIGH (May 5, 2023) – News Item: Average teacher pay in North Carolina public schools ranks 34th in the nation this school year, up from ...Read more
- UNC System in the crosshairsRALEIGH (April 20, 2023) – If there’s any doubt that education – especially higher education – is in the crosshairs for next year’s elections, North Carolina’s Republican legislators made it ...Read more