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
Fayetteville State: Student body of the future?
FAYETTEVILLE (February 1, 2023) – We’ve been hearing it for several years: Birth rates declined during the Great Recession, so we are approaching a demographic cliff and a decline in traditional college-age students. The response, both by the UNC System and elsewhere, has been to focus on adult learners and make it easier for them… READ MORE
FSU: ‘Be practical’ for adult learners
FAYETTEVILLE (January 25, 2023) – When you have kids and a job, just getting to school can be a challenge. And Fayetteville State University is taking steps to meet that challenge. Some 46% of Fayetteville State’s students are adult learners 25 and older. “We have to be very practical and understanding that many of our… READ MORE
Too narrow a view
RALEIGH (January 25, 2022) – Some folks measure the value of higher education solely by how much its graduates make. Most of us know there’s a lot more to it. In a column this week, John Hood of the John Locke Foundation contends that North Carolinians don’t receive an adequate return on what he calls… READ MORE
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