RICHMOND – Higher education lost a great friend July 11 with the death of William Johnston “Billy” Armfield IV, after a brief illness. Armfield, 81, was a 1956 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and received a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School in 1962. In 1970, he co-founded… READ MORE
Government by auto-pilot
North Carolina’s Senate is considering a drastic step to restrict state revenue: A proposed constitutional amendment would cap the state income-tax rate at 5.5%, sharply limiting the state’s ability to support services in a downturn or natural disaster. Higher education would likely bear the brunt of that policy. Much of state spending is mandated by… READ MORE
Don’t limit access in the land of opportunity
Graduation rates for North Carolina’s public universities must improve. There’s almost total consensus on that point, especially with tuition rising steadily in recent years. Though North Carolina’s public universities have an overall graduation rate nearly 10 percentage points above the national average, there’s wide variance between schools. That’s led to calls from pundits and policymakers… READ MORE
HB2 tarnishes our brand
North Carolina, its institutions of higher education and its communities have just seen their brand tarnished. HB2, the new law that requires LGBT folks to use the restroom of the sex on their birth certificate1 has been an enormous, costly embarrassment2 for a state that has real issues to confront. UNC System President Margaret Spellings… READ MORE
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