Give Roberts a chance
Roberts has behaved professionally as a member of the UNC Board of Governors and demonstrated he is plenty smart – more a technician than an ideologue. Read More
NC SPIN Posts by Higher Ed Works
Little wonder why Guskiewiscz might leave
Republicans are clearly now a minority political party. Yet they are clearly in charge of public education in our state. Read More
Is NC spending enough on public education?
Once the tax cuts in the new state budget take full effect, they are projected to cost the state $13 billion a year, which is roughly equivalent to the state’s K-12 education budget now. Read More
$500M in vouchers for private schools
Dramatically increased state support for private schools will divert public tax dollars that could otherwise help our public schools. Read More
Lemons to lemonade - The UNC School of Civic Life
The new school is a good–faith effort to embrace what began as a declaration of war with the faculty. Read More
The good and the bad of the new state budget
With a current teacher shortage of 3,500 the pay raises given are "simply not enough." Read More
You can't buy excellence, but you must pay for it
Given the financial predicaments confronting two of North Carolina’s most cherished assets, there are surely better ways to spend a billion tax dollars than on NCInnovation and moving the UNC System headquarters from Chapel Hill to downtown Raleigh. Read More
READDI – or not? – for the next pandemic
If's a question of when, not if we will have another pandemic. Read More
"Eastern North Carolina Needs Us": The economic impact of ECU
ECU and ECU Health generate an economic impact of $6.9 billion per year. Read More
Why do we let our General Assembly dismantle public education?
We either just don’t care, or don’t know what’s going on, or like what we see. Read More
