Losing Trust in Higher Education
College leaders and professors who appear more interested in themselves than in education are doing great harm.
College leaders and professors who appear more interested in themselves than in education are doing great harm.
Limiting the number of students at UNC would reduce costs and improve academic quality.
The times are somber and the commencement speakers are serious.
We report on how much the university system spends on actual teaching as opposed to non-student expenditures.
Chancellor has one promising idea and two dead-ends in his speech
Long held in low regard, Web-based courses are becoming mainstream.
House Bill 1183 would give the children of illegal immigrants the privilege of attending UNC schools and community colleges in N.C. for in-state tuition. Looks like yet another talking point used to sell us on the $3.1 billion bond referendum for higher education in 2000 could turn out to be a big fat whopper.
2002: “How many small cuts do you take before you cry out in pain?”
1992: “The state’s flagship university is being nickel-and-dimed to death.”
The letter, for which we at the Pope Center cannot vouch and which could be an expedient hoax, begins: “WE THE UNDERSIGNED FACULTY are writing to express our concerns about the ongoing secret negotiations between high-level university administrators and John Edwards regarding the ‘poverty’ center.”
The Dionne article anticipated last week’s big Edwards news. He now has an issue: the alleviation of poverty. Dionne doesn’t write that Edwards has no idea about how to accomplish it; instead, as he graciously puts it, Edwards is “planning to set up a center to study ways to alleviate poverty.” That would be UNC’s new Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity, of which Edwards will be director.