This year, a plan for a "gender-neutral" housing complex at UNC-Chapel Hill drew lots of attention, first from the state legislature, and then from the university system's governing body, the UNC Board of Governors. The plan was intended to permit gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, or transgendered...
Published: Wednesday, August 21st, 2013 @ 7:43 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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In 2008, a committee of faculty members at UNC-Chapel Hill was astounded to discover that the average grade of a Carolina student was 3.213 - well over a B average. Led by Andrew Perrin, a professor of sociology, the school's Educational Policy Committee began looking at how other universities...
Published: Saturday, August 17th, 2013 @ 2:45 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Freshman year in college is a time of celebration for most. Freed from the babysitting and busy-working grind of high school as well as from the direct supervision of family members, most freshmen revel in their newfound liberty. It is a profoundly strange time for anybody to be...
Published: Friday, July 12th, 2013 @ 11:55 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Over the last decade, freshman reading programs at North Carolina college have been, variously, controversial, touchy-feely, and arguably too easy. Now, they seem to be dying off. Four North Carolina colleges have dropped their programs outright, and several more have scaled them down considerably.
Published: Monday, July 1st, 2013 @ 12:39 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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What's that smell, you ask? Why it's the patchouli-and-granola Chapel Hill-Carrboro crowd stinking up Jones Street and tying up police officers' valuable time -- comparing themselves to MLK and protesting "draconian cuts" to public education.
Published: Saturday, May 18th, 2013 @ 11:29 am
By: Brant Clifton
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I admit that I was stunned by the appointment of Carol Folt as chancellor of UNC-Chapel Hill. It’s hard to believe that someone who has spent her entire career at Dartmouth, a relatively small (4,200 students) Ivy League college, can navigate the shoals of a large...
Published: Thursday, April 18th, 2013 @ 4:24 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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On July 1, sixteen new members will join the UNC Board of Governors. The newcomers are almost all Republicans, and thus might be expected to be conservative about expenses, but will they reform the system?
Published: Tuesday, April 16th, 2013 @ 12:35 pm
By: Jenna Ashley Robinson
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Campus lefties are crying over Gov. Pat's plans to cut $140 million from the UNC system.
Published: Wednesday, April 10th, 2013 @ 3:25 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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During the 2009 Session of the General Assembly, Senator Floyd McKissick(D) from Durham County introduced the Racial Justice Act SB461. The act provides a process by which statistical evidence could be used to establish that race was the basis for seeking or obtaining the death penalty in any case.
Published: Sunday, January 20th, 2013 @ 10:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Andrew S. Griffith was born on June 1, 1926, in Mount Airy, North Carolina.
Published: Wednesday, December 5th, 2012 @ 12:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Entrepreneurs make things happen by filling a niche in the marketplace. Edward Stringham wants to fill a niche by creating more entrepreneurs.
Published: Tuesday, November 27th, 2012 @ 10:14 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Empty classrooms could boost cost of college to students
Published: Monday, November 26th, 2012 @ 11:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The growth of teenage unemployment has ominous implications for the future -- but there is a solution, if we are willing to face economic reality.
Published: Tuesday, July 31st, 2012 @ 9:52 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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A few days ago I wrote that the state spending plan just approved by the North Carolina General Assembly was the right and responsible thing to do given current fiscal and economic realities.
Published: Saturday, June 30th, 2012 @ 10:41 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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