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Higher ed faces many pressures; NC schools will feel impact

October 8, 2025 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

By Tom Campbell RALEIGH (October 8, 2025) – Folks in higher education must feel like General Custer at Little Big Horn: fired at from almost every angle. Higher education hasn’t faced this many pressures in our lifetimes. Nowhere is that stress greater than from the federal government. Colleges and universities have bullseyes pasted on them… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2025, UNC System

Why is enrollment booming across UNC System schools?

October 8, 2025 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

By Kate Denning Carolina Public Press DURHAM (October 1, 2025) – The University of North Carolina System reported record enrollment numbers overall. Year-over-year increases occurred at 15 of its 16 higher education institutions for the 2025-26 year. For the system as a whole, enrollment jumped 3.4% from the previous year. This includes significant growth at… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2025, Prosperity, UNC System

Former provost sues board at UNC-Chapel Hill

September 24, 2025 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

HILLSBOROUGH (September 22, 2025) – UNC-Chapel Hill’s former provost sued the university’s Board of Trustees Monday, saying the board repeatedly violated state open meetings and public records laws – and even used a platform that deletes texts after they’re read to evade the law. Chris Clemens, a respected astrophysicist and a recognized conservative, joined UNC’s… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2025, Governance, UNC Board of Governors, UNC System

UNC System enrollment up; tuition might be too

September 24, 2025 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

RALEIGH (September 18, 2025) – Universities across the country are struggling to attract students due to shrinking birth rates. The UNC System is headed in the opposite direction. The system announced record fall enrollment figures last week that show 3.4% growth across the system in fall 2025. Enrollment increased at 15 of 16 campuses, topping… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2025, UNC System

Eroding and politicizing higher ed in NC

August 6, 2025 by Higher Ed Works 1 Comment

By Ed Samulski Cary Boshamer Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill CHAPEL HILL (August 6, 2025) – As a teenager in South Carolina applying to college in the late 1950s, I saw the qualitative difference between the economies of the Carolinas; everyone attributed North Carolina’s superiority in all areas to… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2025, Budget, Governance, UNC System

The rubric-fication of accreditation

July 23, 2025 by Higher Ed Works 1 Comment

By Art Padilla When Vermont Connecticut Royster, the two-time Pulitzer winner to whom President Reagan awarded the Medal of Freedom, retired to North Carolina, I jumped at any opportunity to see him.  Vermont Royster served for 13 years as the renowned executive editor of the Wall Street Journal and afterwards as Kenan Professor in journalism… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2025, Our Opinion, UNC System

Art Padilla: Tone deafness uninterrupted

July 18, 2025 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH (July 18, 2025) – The financial and political attacks on universities are both extreme and broad-based. The collateral damage being done to our nation’s scientific capabilities is still impressively underestimated. The latest chapter in the decline of American science is the US Housing Department’s (HUD) brazen take-over, without previous warning, of the National… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2025, Governance, Leadership, UNC System

Tuition at UNC System schools stays flat for the 9th straight year

February 27, 2025 by Higher Ed Works 1 Comment

RALEIGH (February 27, 2025) – For the ninth straight year, the UNC Board of Governors voted today to hold tuition constant at all 16 UNC System universities. For in-state students. North Carolina’s state constitution includes a provision that says, “The General Assembly shall provide that the benefits of The University of North Carolina and other… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2025, UNC Board of Governors, UNC System

UNC board moves to clarify rules on campus protests

February 5, 2025 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

RALEIGH (February 5, 2025) – After raucous demonstrations by pro-Palestinian protesters last spring at UNC-Chapel Hill and, to a lesser extent, other UNC System campuses, System officials are moving to clarify the rules for student protests. The UNC Board of Governors is scheduled to vote on a new policy when it meets Feb. 27. When… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2025, UNC Board of Governors, UNC System

UNC System signals flat tuition for 9th straight year

January 30, 2025 by Higher Ed Works 1 Comment

RALEIGH (January 30, 2025) – Contrary to a national narrative of skyrocketing tuition costs, the UNC System signaled clearly this week that it intends to hold tuition flat for the 9th straight year in 2025-26. System President Peter Hans told the UNC Board of Governors this morning that low tuition is part of the UNC… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2025, Access & Affordability, UNC System

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