- NC Senate envisions UNC-ECU health network
RALEIGH (May 25, 2023) – There’s a big idea afoot in the NC Senate’s version of the state budget that would create an integrated network of UNC and ECU physicians, ...Read more - UNC cancer researcher Earp receives O. Max Gardner Award
RALEIGH (May 25, 2023) – At least 1 in 3 of us will experience cancer at some point in our lives. And a man who’s dedicated his life to fighting ...Read more - Defending Carolina’s priceless gem, Part I
Academic Freedom is the Foundation for Great Universities EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is the first installment of a three-part essay by Lloyd Kramer, a professor of history and former Chair of ...Read more - Senate budget: Simply not enough
RALEIGH (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 development
RALEIGH (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? $400M
RALEIGH (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 I
By 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 university
By 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










