By Jenna A. Robinson The UNC system likes to boast that it is “one of the strongest and most successful systems of public higher education in the nation.” And in the eyes of ... Keep Reading
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Just the Facts, Ma’am, on UNC
By Jenna A. Robinson The UNC system likes to boast that it is “one of the strongest and most successful systems of public higher education in the nation.” And in the eyes of ... Keep Reading
Ignore the Doomsayers about UNC’s Spellings
By Jenna A. Robinson In late October, the Board of Governors of the University of North Carolina announced that Margaret Spellings, Secretary of the Department of Education under ... Keep Reading
Ignore the Doomsayers about UNC’s Spellings
By Jenna A. Robinson In late October, the Board of Governors of the University of North Carolina announced that Margaret Spellings, Secretary of the Department of Education under ... Keep Reading
The Whole Story About UNC Faculty Raises (Or the Supposed Lack Thereof)
By Jay Schalin Pity the UNC system faculty, who have only gotten one across-the-board raise in the last four years, and whose average wages have not risen since 2009. Throw in a ... Keep Reading
Working Hard or Hardly Working?
By Jay Schalin University faculty workloads are becoming an important issue in North Carolina and elsewhere. The savings for just slight tweaks in productivity are enormous, in ... Keep Reading
Raises for the 1 Percent at UNC
By Jenna A. Robinson Last week, the UNC Board of Governors committee meetings began to run behind schedule when the Committee on Personnel and Tenure went into a prolonged closed ... Keep Reading
UNC President Search: The Ends Do Not Justify the Means
By Jenna A. Robinson Recently, the Raleigh News & Observer revealed that the UNC Presidential Search Committee’s top candidate for the next system president is former U.S. ... Keep Reading
Records Show Bias Against Conservative Groups at UNC
Last week in a blog post over at Civitas Review, I commented on the Civitas Institute Center for Law and Freedom’s (CLF) recent pursuit of public records from the University of ... Keep Reading
Civitas pressuring state agencies on transparency
In April, I wrote in an editorial at the Burlington Times-News that North Carolina attorneys needed to step up to the plate and enforce our state's public records law. Since then, ... Keep Reading