Over the past two years, the University of North Carolina has been implementing recommendations laid out by the General Administration and Board of Governors in their 2013 report, “Our Time, Our Future: the UNC Compact with North Carolina.” For example, the system has streamlined the transfer process for students going from community colleges to UNC and defined “core competencies” that all graduates should possess.
The Questionable Policy of “Border Tuition”
Imagine that a UNC Center for Western Civilization (which, of course, does not exist) were to co-sponsor a conference with the Heritage Foundation.
In the past few months, under the chairmanship of John Fennebresque, the UNC Board of Governors has been more aggressive than in the past, drilling down into more topics and increasing its discussions in committees and in the full board meetings. But now the board is being distracted by a spat over confidentiality at Winston-Salem State University, one of the board’s sixteen college campuses.
Five reforms the UNC board should implement this school year
Here’s a breakdown of North Carolina governor Pat McCrory’s 2014-15 higher education budget proposal.
Vague and unenforced UNC system policies give bureaucrats and campus officials too much latitude.
The UNC system’s newly-formed General Education Council hopes its initiative will improve core curricula.
Two UNC schools put program duplication to the test.
Long held in low regard, Web-based courses are becoming mainstream.
