This paper by Jay Schalin, the Pope Center’s director of policy analysis, explores the teaching loads of faculty in the University of North Carolina system. It finds that the university overstates the actual teaching duties of professors and recommends that the UNC Board of Governors conduct a comprehensive study of faculty workloads.
The UNC system’s official faculty teaching loads don’t add up.
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 system’s new website sets the stage for transparency, but the information is missing.
It is time to recognize that academia–including the University of North Carolina–has lost its moral compass.
The UNC system’s newly-formed General Education Council hopes its initiative will improve core curricula.
The University of North Carolina system is cranking up the pressure for higher budgets even as a key state official warns that a large increase is unlikely.
College leaders and professors who appear more interested in themselves than in education are doing great harm.
Another bond package has been approved for the University of North Carolina system, but this one was done without voter approval. State legislators approved a nearly $340 million bond package to finance a what were deemed “necessary projects” for the UNC system, even though some did not appear on the UNC Board of Governors’ wish list.
