This model legislation provides a structured framework for standardizing financial-aid offers, ensuring that they are transparent, accurate, and accessible to students and families. It is intended for use by state … Continue reading “Model Legislation: Financial Aid Transparency”
Honor is usually considered a good thing. Given that fact, should we be worried that UNC-Chapel Hill recently discontinued its longstanding student-run Honor Court? On July 17, 2024, Provost Christopher … Continue reading “UNC-Chapel Hill’s Matter of Honor”
Today, Martin Center president Jenna Robinson sent a letter to Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin sharing the Martin Center’s concerns about Virginia’s Senate Bill 506. The bill, if signed, would undermine the crucial … Continue reading “Martin Center Criticizes Virginia Senate Bill on University Governance”
The university system in the United States has accomplished a great deal of good, but it has strayed from its chief goals of scholarly inquiry and responsible teaching, especially in … Continue reading “Blueprints for Reform”
Blueprint for Reform: University Governance is a comprehensive policy guide for state legislators and university trustees highlighting the critical need for greater transparency, accountability, and responsiveness within public university governing … Continue reading “Blueprint for Reform: University Governance”
The Higher Education Governance Transparency Act can help restore transparency and accountability to university governance. Public university governing boards exist to serve the people of their states. It should, therefore, … Continue reading “Model Legislation: Higher Education Governance Transparency Act”
Last week, the North Carolina General Assembly marked a special occasion: crossover. May 4, the official “crossover deadline,” was the last day on which bills could pass out of the … Continue reading “The General Assembly’s Long Higher-Ed Reach”
Governor Cooper’s Commission on the Governance of Public Universities in North Carolina has been holding public forum meetings since February in an effort to spur conversation and ideas about the … Continue reading “Does the Governance Commission Care About UNC Governance?”
When news broke that UNC-Chapel Hill had plans to create a new School of Civic Life and Leadership, it was inevitable that there would be some confusion. But nearly two … Continue reading “The Media Take On the UNC Board”
At the end of last year, Governor Roy Cooper surprised North Carolina higher-education leaders with his creation of a Governor’s Commission on the Governance of Public Universities in North Carolina. … Continue reading “Gov. Cooper’s UNC “Commission” Shows Its Hand”