- State Board Chair: ‘We need salaries that are competitive’CHARLOTTE (July 20, 2023) – The Chair of the State Board of Education appreciates North Carolina teachers. And as legislators continue to dicker over the state budget, he says they ...Read more
- UNC-Chapel Hill: Under the BOG microscopeRALEIGH (July 20, 2023) – Members of the UNC Board of Governors showed Wednesday just what a microscope they use to probe UNC-Chapel Hill. A week after the U.S. Supreme Court ...Read more
- Paul Fulton, 1993: Strategic diversity in the modern workplaceEDITOR’S NOTE: As President of Sara Lee Corporation, Paul Fulton penned these words in the early 1990s. Thirty years later, they are just as relevant. Fulton is the founder and ...Read more
- Public universities remain affordable, availableBy Eric Johnson CHAPEL HILL (July 13, 2023) – Two recent decisions by the US Supreme Court — one ending affirmative action in college admissions and the other quashing President Joe ...Read more
- Buck Goldstein: FarewellEDITOR’S NOTE: Buck Goldstein, a Professor of the Practice in the School of Education, University Entrepreneur in Residence at UNC Chapel Hill and contributor to Higher Ed Works, retired from ...Read more
- Johnson and Parnell: Shortsighted decisionBy James H. Johnson, Jr., Ph.D., and Allan M. Parnell, Ph.D. CHAPEL HILL (July 6, 2023) – Affirmative action was the legal remedy ending decades of racial discrimination in college admissions. ...Read more
- Tom Ross on Supreme Court ruling: DisappointingFormer UNC System and Davidson College President Tom Ross – also a former NC Superior Court judge – shared the following thoughts on the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on race-conscious ...Read more
- Latest episodes: The Political Takeover of the UNC SystemRALEIGH (July 6, 2023) – Dear readers, today we share the latest episodes in the ongoing saga The Political Takeover of the UNC System. Just as the UNC Governance Commission was ...Read more
- Will affirmative action decision fuel HBCU enrollment?GREENSBORO (June 6, 2023) – The U.S. Supreme Court’s rejection last week of affirmative action in college admissions could also fuel an enrollment boom at the nation’s Historically Black Colleges ...Read more
- UNC Commission offers recommendations legislators should heedRALEIGH (June 27, 2023) – The Chronicle of Higher Education recently labeled the University of North Carolina System “a poster child for troubled governance.” The UNC Board of Governors and campus ...Read more