- UNC Research: “We’ve seen powerful results”
CHAPEL HILL – Chancellor Carol Folt calls them “zingers” – imaginative ideas that, when coupled with years of fundamental research, produce enormous breakthroughs in science. And in just the past three ...Read more - Farmer: “Our path has never been easy”Stephen Farmer Vice Provost for Enrollment and Undergraduate Admissions University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Keynote Address – University Day 2016 October 11, 2016 Chancellor Folt—thank you for that kind and generous introduction. And President ...Read more
- Spellings: Higher education “a new civil right”CHAPEL HILL (October 13, 2016) – At her inauguration today, the 18th president of the University of North Carolina system left no doubt about her view on access to a ...Read more
- “Every child must… reach beyond high school”RALEIGH (October 13, 2016) – The Pope Center for Higher Education Policy distributed a column last week that simply can’t go unanswered. In it, the writer challenges the economic benefits of ...Read more
- Wolfpack to the rescue for PiratesGREENVILLE (October 13, 2016) – With floodwaters from Hurricane Matthew rising all around him Monday, East Carolina Athletics Director Jeff Compher needed help for his teams. “We’ve become an island here,” ...Read more
- Casteen: Core curriculum needed more now than a generation agoRemarks from John T. Casteen III President Emeritus, University of Virginia Virginia Episcopal School Centennial Founders Day Lynchburg, VA September 30, 2016 The major speaker at the first college deans’ meeting I attended (in 1975) ...Read more
- VIDEO: What does Carolina look for in students?CHAPEL HILL – As college application season arrives, thousands of students and their parents wonder what UNC Chapel Hill looks for in applicants. So the Higher Education Works Foundation asked the ...Read more
- TOO much AP?CHAPEL HILL – The pressure on young people to gain admission to a highly selective university is enormous – some take as many as 22 Advanced Placement courses to improve ...Read more
- REVIEW: Disruption in the classroomStarving the Beast — Playing at the Rialto Theatre in Raleigh through Thursday, Oct. 6. By Eric Johnson Contributing Editor Many of the scenes in Starving the Beast will be familiar to North Carolinians. There’s ...Read more
- Dueling visions of academic freedomBy Eric Johnson Contributing Editor CHAPEL HILL (Sept. 26, 2016) – Dueling visions of academic freedom took stage at UNC Chapel Hill last week as Jay Schalin of the Pope Center for ...Read more
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