CHAPEL HILL (September 22, 2022) – Despite inflationary pressures and chancellors’ desire for a tuition increase, the UNC System will hold tuition for in-state undergraduates steady for a seventh straight year in 2023-24, President Peter Hans said this week. “Tuition is the single most important signal we send,” Hans told a committee of the UNC… READ MORE
Keeping the best and brightest home
CHAPEL HILL (July 20, 2022) – An investment in some of North Carolina’s brightest high-school graduates – free tuition – is already paying off at UNC System schools. The NC School of Science and Mathematics in Durham – which now has a western campus in Morganton as well1 – is considered one of the top… READ MORE
Revolving-door leadership
RALEIGH (July 19, 2022) – Until the middle of the last decade, leaders of the UNC and NC Community College Systems generally stayed for five to seven years. But with the announcement today that President Thomas Stith III will depart the Community College System Office in Raleigh Friday after little more than 18 months as president,… READ MORE
UNC across the street
RALEIGH (July 6, 2022) – Now we know where state legislators want to put the UNC System, NC Community College System, Department of Public Instruction and Department of Commerce. Across the street. And now it will cost a mere $180 million in taxpayer dollars. In what has grown to a $250 million plan to demolish… READ MORE
$115 million for what?
RALEIGH (June 9, 2022) – They want to spend $115 million on what? State legislators ordered the UNC System to move its offices from Chapel Hill to Raleigh by the end of this year and spend $15 million to rent space as a $100 million building is constructed in the state government complex. They aim… READ MORE
Some UNC BOG members object to Raleigh move
CHAPEL HILL (May 26, 2022) – The board that oversees the UNC System agreed today to spend $15 million to move the System’s offices to Raleigh – but not without vocal objections from several members. The budget approved by state legislators last November ordered the UNC System to move its offices from Chapel Hill to… READ MORE
UNC Study: Peers, not faculty, limit political speech
By Eric Johnson CHAPEL HILL (May 26, 2022) – Across the UNC System, most classes barely touch on politics, and most professors are fair-minded when they raise political subjects. Yet students are still reluctant to share their views on contentious topics, and conservative students are especially nervous about being ostracized for their political beliefs. Those… READ MORE
$6.2B NC surplus: Make education a priority again
RALEIGH (May 18, 2022) – As the NC General Assembly reconvenes today with a $6.2 billion state budget surplus, it’s time to make education a priority again in North Carolina. Officials announced last week that the state will take in $4.24 billion more than projected in the budget year that ends June 30 – a… READ MORE
Inflation: ‘Our people are affected dramatically’
RALEIGH (May 11, 2022) – Everyone was so excited last November – legislators and the governor agreed on the first state budget in three years, and it included raises of 5% over two years for state employees. But now – as the N.C. General Assembly plans to reconvene May 18 – we’re looking at 8.5%… READ MORE
UNC System: ‘Pervasive and overtly partisan political control’
RALEIGH (May 4, 2022) – Well what a week it’s been for the UNC System in the national press. If there was any doubt remaining that the UNC System has become overly politicized, the past week made the point: Inside Higher Ed reported a spike in faculty and staff turnover at UNC System institutions that… READ MORE
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