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Governor names UNC Governance Commission members

November 23, 2022 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

RALEIGH (November 23, 2022) – After years of turnover in leadership and political interference in the UNC System, Gov. Roy Cooper named members of his Commission on the Governance of Public Universities in North Carolina today. “It’s clear that leaders across our state, and across the political spectrum, care deeply about our remarkable university system… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2022, Governance, UNC System

Enrollment down across UNC System

November 17, 2022 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

GREENVILLE (November 17, 2022) – For the first time in nine years, the UNC System saw enrollment decline this fall, according to a new report. Because public universities currently receive state funds based largely on their enrollment, that could mean financial reductions for some. But the UNC Board of Governors is working to soften the… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2022, UNC System

UNC System: Disinvesting in public universities

October 13, 2022 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

RALEIGH (October 13, 2022) – North Carolina has an ambitious goal to have 2 million people ages 25-44 with a college degree or credential by 2030. Then why do we continue to disinvest in our public universities? The state spent $2,900 less per student in the University of North Carolina System in 2020-21 than it… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2022, myFutureNC, UNC System, Underfunded, Where We Stand

Hans: No UNC System tuition increase in 2023-24

September 22, 2022 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

CHAPEL HILL (September 22, 2022) – Despite inflationary pressures and chancellors’ desire for a tuition increase, the UNC System will hold tuition for in-state undergraduates steady for a seventh straight year in 2023-24, President Peter Hans said this week. “Tuition is the single most important signal we send,” Hans told a committee of the UNC… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2022, UNC System

Keeping the best and brightest home

July 21, 2022 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

CHAPEL HILL (July 20, 2022) – An investment in some of North Carolina’s brightest high-school graduates – free tuition – is already paying off at UNC System schools. The NC School of Science and Mathematics in Durham – which now has a western campus in Morganton as well1 – is considered one of the top… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2022, North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, UNC System

Revolving-door leadership

July 19, 2022 by Higher Ed Works 2 Comments

RALEIGH (July 19, 2022) – Until the middle of the last decade, leaders of the UNC and NC Community College Systems generally stayed for five to seven years. But with the announcement today that President Thomas Stith III will depart the Community College System Office in Raleigh Friday after little more than 18 months as president,… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2022, Governance, NC Community Colleges, UNC System

UNC across the street

July 6, 2022 by Higher Ed Works 2 Comments

RALEIGH (July 6, 2022) – Now we know where state legislators want to put the UNC System, NC Community College System, Department of Public Instruction and Department of Commerce. Across the street. And now it will cost a mere $180 million in taxpayer dollars. In what has grown to a $250 million plan to demolish… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2022, Governance, UNC System

$115 million for what?

June 9, 2022 by Higher Ed Works 8 Comments

RALEIGH (June 9, 2022) – They want to spend $115 million on what? State legislators ordered the UNC System to move its offices from Chapel Hill to Raleigh by the end of this year and spend $15 million to rent space as a $100 million building is constructed in the state government complex.  They aim… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2022, Governance, UNC System, Uncategorized

Some UNC BOG members object to Raleigh move

May 26, 2022 by Higher Ed Works 3 Comments

CHAPEL HILL (May 26, 2022) – The board that oversees the UNC System agreed today to spend $15 million to move the System’s offices to Raleigh – but not without vocal objections from several members. The budget approved by state legislators last November ordered the UNC System to move its offices from Chapel Hill to… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2022, Governance, UNC System

UNC Study: Peers, not faculty, limit political speech

May 26, 2022 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

By Eric Johnson CHAPEL HILL (May 26, 2022) – Across the UNC System, most classes barely touch on politics, and most professors are fair-minded when they raise political subjects. Yet students are still reluctant to share their views on contentious topics, and conservative students are especially nervous about being ostracized for their political beliefs.  Those… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2022, Our Opinion, UNC System

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