- Keeping the best and brightest homeCHAPEL HILL (July 20, 2022) – An investment in some of North Carolina’s brightest high-school graduates – free tuition – is already paying off at UNC System schools. The NC School ...Read more
- Revolving-door leadershipRALEIGH (July 19, 2022) – Until the middle of the last decade, leaders of the UNC and NC Community College Systems generally stayed for five to seven years. But with the ...Read more
- UNC across the streetRALEIGH (July 6, 2022) – Now we know where state legislators want to put the UNC System, NC Community College System, Department of Public Instruction and Department of Commerce. Across the ...Read more
- $115 million for what?RALEIGH (June 9, 2022) – They want to spend $115 million on what? State legislators ordered the UNC System to move its offices from Chapel Hill to Raleigh by the end ...Read more
- Some UNC BOG members object to Raleigh moveCHAPEL HILL (May 26, 2022) – The board that oversees the UNC System agreed today to spend $15 million to move the System’s offices to Raleigh – but not without ...Read more
- UNC Study: Peers, not faculty, limit political speechBy Eric Johnson CHAPEL HILL (May 26, 2022) – Across the UNC System, most classes barely touch on politics, and most professors are fair-minded when they raise political subjects. Yet students ...Read more
- $6.2B NC surplus: Make education a priority againRALEIGH (May 18, 2022) – As the NC General Assembly reconvenes today with a $6.2 billion state budget surplus, it’s time to make education a priority again in North Carolina. Officials ...Read more
- Inflation: ‘Our people are affected dramatically’RALEIGH (May 11, 2022) – Everyone was so excited last November – legislators and the governor agreed on the first state budget in three years, and it included raises of ...Read more
- UNC System: ‘Pervasive and overtly partisan political control’RALEIGH (May 4, 2022) – Well what a week it’s been for the UNC System in the national press. If there was any doubt remaining that the UNC System has become ...Read more
- BOG: Inflation bites UNC campusesCULLOWHEE (April 7, 2022) – We’re all feeling the bite of inflation.1 Our universities are, too. And despite a state budget that granted 5% raises over two years to university employees ...Read more