RALEIGH (February 23, 2023) – Public officials seldom attract attention when they don’t change something for seven years. But in an era when the public complains about the cost of higher education, the UNC Board of Governors voted today to keep tuition for in-state undergraduates at the state’s 16 public universities the same for a… READ MORE
A leader in principal
RALEIGH (February 23, 2023) – Being a school principal has been called the toughest job in America. But Bonnie Fusarelli is there to help. Fusarelli, a professor and faculty scholar in the Department of Educational Leadership, Policy, and Human Development at NC State University, has run training for future principals and superintendents for 20 years. … READ MORE
Case study in UNC board overreach?
CHAPEL HILL (February 21, 2023) – There’s a case study in overreach by a UNC System governing board taking place before our eyes in Chapel Hill. Administrators and faculty alike were blindsided Jan. 26 when the UNC Chapel Hill Board of Trustees adopted a resolution – which was not listed on the meeting agenda –… READ MORE
Guskiewicz walks a tightrope
CHAPEL HILL (February 21, 2023) – Kevin Guskiewicz is walking a tightrope. With the surprise adoption last month by the Board of Trustees at UNC-Chapel Hill of a resolution asking the university to “accelerate” creation of a School of Civic Life and Leadership1 – followed by a “flabbergasted” response from bewildered faculty2 – UNC’s Chancellor… READ MORE
Art Padilla: Universities and DEI, Part 1
RALEIGH (February 17, 2023) – More than half of North Carolina’s 100 counties have lost population since 2010. Those who live in fast growing metropolitan areas like Raleigh, Charlotte, or Wilmington seldom grasp the poverty and lack of opportunity that exist just a few miles from their homes. Yet, instead of boldly focusing on these and other difficulties… READ MORE
Universities and DEI, Part 2: What’s new?
The exquisite irony in our polarized scenarios is that universities have had DEI-like entities and official statements about university commitments to civil rights laws in place for decades. The stationery in the UNC President’s office has declared institutional support for equal opportunity and affirmative action since the early 1970s. Perhaps the words have changed to… READ MORE
Universities and DEI, Part 3: Draconian options and board duties
The draconian hand of a central university board and the “nuclear option” of legislation or loyalty oaths or policy statements prohibiting what are, or are thought to be, inappropriate questions are not helpful here. We could benefit from less meddling by university boards and much less micro-management by our legislatures. Recruitment of top administrators is… READ MORE
Chapel Hill board antics catch accreditor’s eye
RALEIGH (February 8, 2023) – UNC-Chapel Hill will soon be asked to explain its Board of Trustees’ move to create a new program without consulting its faculty, the president of the University’s accrediting agency said yesterday. “We’re waiting for them to explain that, because that’s kind of not the way we do business,” Belle Wheelan,… READ MORE
Goldstein and Snider: How not to start a new School of Civic Life at UNC-Chapel Hill
By Buck Goldstein and William Snider CHAPEL HILL (February 2, 2023) – On Jan. 26, the chairman of the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees announced plans to launch a college within a college called the “School of Civic Life and Leadership” with 20 new faculty devoted to the effort. To say the UNC community was… READ MORE
NC’s on a roll – but 31,000 graduates short
RALEIGH (February 6, 2023) – North Carolina’s economy is on a roll. But we’re still 31,000 graduates short of where we need to be to fill the jobs rolling into the state,1 according to a goal state leaders set in 2019. “When we talk to the CEOs … the three most important issues that they… READ MORE
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