By Paul FultonSpecial to The PilotMarch 6, 2023 In response to Connie Lovell’s column Feb. 25 (“New UNC School Will Give Students Critical Thinking Skills Needed in Life”): The notion of adding ...

RALEIGH (March 1, 2023) – North Carolina will finish the current budget year with $3.25 billion – 10.7% – more revenue than it budgeted for the year, state economists reported ...

RALEIGH (February 23, 2023) – Public officials seldom attract attention when they don’t change something for seven years.  But in an era when the public complains about the cost of higher ...

RALEIGH (February 23, 2023) – Being a school principal has been called the toughest job in America. But Bonnie Fusarelli is there to help. Fusarelli, a professor and faculty scholar in ...

CHAPEL HILL (February 21, 2023) – There’s a case study in overreach by a UNC System governing board taking place before our eyes in Chapel Hill. Administrators and faculty alike were ...

CHAPEL HILL (February 21, 2023) – Kevin Guskiewicz is walking a tightrope. With the surprise adoption last month by the Board of Trustees at UNC-Chapel Hill of a resolution asking the ...

RALEIGH (February 17, 2023) – More than half of North Carolina’s 100 counties have lost population since 2010. Those who live in fast growing metropolitan areas like Raleigh, Charlotte, or Wilmington seldom grasp ...

The exquisite irony in our polarized scenarios is that universities have had DEI-like entities and official statements about university commitments to civil rights laws in place for decades. The stationery ...

The draconian hand of a central university board and the “nuclear option” of legislation or loyalty oaths or policy statements prohibiting what are, or are thought to be, inappropriate questions ...

RALEIGH (February 8, 2023) – UNC-Chapel Hill will soon be asked to explain its Board of Trustees’ move to create a new program without consulting its faculty, the president of ...