Seamless Transition Between Schools Needs Stitching
Community colleges must do a better job preparing students who transfer to 4-year schools.
Dismal K-12 Education Makes Colleges Look Good
A lack of competition among primary and secondary schools permits poor performance.
Shaking Up the System
Major changes such as expansion into underserved communities and centralization of command are coming to the UNC system.
A Call to Arms against College Sports
The president of Belmont Abbey College outside Charlotte starts a movement to bring sportsmanship back to competitive athletics.
Ignoring the Ideological Elephant in the Classroom
Sometimes the most important questions are the ones never asked.
Attending Mass at the Church of Global Warming
Duke University’ s closed-minded views on the environment
A Broader Role for the University On Its Way?
Why K-12 and UNC need each other.
A Refreshing Twist on Education: Competition
Putting the responsibility for training teachers into hands more practical than the hands of education theorists.
Good News on Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Despite declining enrollments, HBCUs produce many of nation’s black scientists.
Jon Sanders’ Top 10 Nuttiest N.C. Campus Events For 2007
Editor’s note: Jon Sanders compiles an annual “Top Ten” list of what he calls the “nuttiest campus events” in North Carolina. This year’s list makes a notable exception, granting the top spot (see below) to something that didn’t happen. What didn’t happen, he says, was so strikingly necessary that its predictable non-occurrence warrants attention.
Onward to this year’s list: