The University of North Carolina Board of Governors is keeping tuition and fees the same no matter what happens with COVID-19.
Published: Friday, July 24th, 2020 @ 2:53 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The saga of Silent Sam will continue into 2019
Published: Thursday, January 3rd, 2019 @ 10:46 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Dozens of protesters gathered in the rain outside the UNC Center for School Leadership Friday, Dec. 14, to protest the potential return of the Confederate statue dubbed "Silent Sam" to the UNC-Chapel Hill campus
Published: Thursday, December 20th, 2018 @ 12:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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At least 79 teacher assistants and instructors at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill are threatening to withhold grades unless their demands in the Silent Sam controversy are met, local activists say
Published: Wednesday, December 12th, 2018 @ 10:55 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Silent Sam - the controversial Confederate statue that formerly stood on UNC Chapel Hill's campus - may turn into a rallying election issue for liberal activists, a member of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors told Carolina Journal.
Published: Sunday, October 7th, 2018 @ 3:39 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Board of Trustees for UNC-Chapel Hill will make suggestions by Nov. 15 about what to do with Silent Sam, the campus’s controversial Confederate statue torn down by protesters, members of the university system’s Board of Governors say
Published: Monday, September 3rd, 2018 @ 9:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The search for a new chancellor at Western Carolina University is exposing a growing and contentious divide between the University of North Carolina's Board of Governors and UNC President Margaret Spellings
Published: Tuesday, July 24th, 2018 @ 11:35 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The University of North Carolina's Board of Governors should take a serious look at how it awards bonuses and pay raises for university administrators, Bob Rucho, a former state senator and current board member, told Carolina Journal
Published: Wednesday, March 28th, 2018 @ 6:00 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Members of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors on Jan. 26 tangled with their chairman, Lou Bissette, over a recent op-ed calling the body "too political."
Published: Sunday, January 28th, 2018 @ 11:13 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Recently, a legislative proposal aimed at improving graduation rates at the University of North Carolina system's 16 institutions was nixed due to vehement opposition from university leaders
Published: Monday, December 12th, 2016 @ 10:51 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Even with so many legislative races already decided and so many others that appear to be sure things, Democrats believe they can make inroads into the Republican majorities in the North Carolina General Assembly this year.
Published: Friday, September 30th, 2016 @ 1:05 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The outcry over the failures of the state Crime lab reached Wilmington as former state Senator Thom Goolsby and NCGOP Communications Director Kami Mueller detailed the ineffective leadership of Roy Cooper.
Published: Thursday, September 29th, 2016 @ 7:07 pm
By: Russell Allen
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Amid questions about legislative interference in the actions of the UNC Board of Governors, the board voted Friday to make records of its controversial Oct. 30 meeting available for review by members of the General Assembly.
Published: Monday, January 11th, 2016 @ 8:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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John Fennebresque's friends and coworkers call him "Czar." That appears to be a fitting nickname, for his imperious exercise of authority was his downfall as chairman of the University of North Carolina system's Board of Governors.
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 12:12 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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After months of controversy surrounding his tenure as chairman of the UNC Board of Governors, John Fennebresque announced today that he will quit his post.
Published: Tuesday, October 27th, 2015 @ 11:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today's emergency meeting of the UNC Board of Governors, where a possible successor to outgoing president Tom Ross will be interviewed, has been called an attempt to bypass a law enacted by the General Assembly requiring more transparency in the selection process, leading several board members to...
Published: Wednesday, October 21st, 2015 @ 2:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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That was an example of the kind of commentary we got during debate on traffic cameras in the North Carolina Senate.
Published: Tuesday, July 22nd, 2014 @ 7:58 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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RALEIGH - Shut out of formal power in the state capital for the first time in more than a century, North Carolina Democrats hope that 2014 will mark the beginning of a steady climb back to legislative majorities and the Governor's Mansion by 2016.
Published: Friday, February 21st, 2014 @ 1:14 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Sen. Thom Goolsby (R-New Hanover), co-chairman of the Senate Judiciary I Committee and the Appropriations Subcommittee on Justice and Public Safety, announced Friday he will retire from the General Assembly at the end of his term.
Published: Thursday, January 23rd, 2014 @ 2:44 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Pat McCrory and North Carolina Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker recently announced that USA InvestCo plans to create 100 jobs and invest more than $15 million in a new cold storage facility at the Port of Wilmington.
Published: Tuesday, December 17th, 2013 @ 6:34 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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To our state's shame, North Carolina ranks number eight in the nation for sex trafficking.
Published: Tuesday, October 8th, 2013 @ 8:06 pm
By: Thom Goolsby
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Absurd headlines are springing up in newspapers all across North Carolina stating: "Tax Credit Costs $336 Million in State Revenue."
Published: Friday, September 27th, 2013 @ 3:04 pm
By: Thom Goolsby
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The UNC academic fraud scandal is like a pesky staph infection that just won't go away for university officials - nor should it.
Published: Tuesday, September 24th, 2013 @ 4:32 pm
By: Thom Goolsby
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Most North Carolinians are painfully aware of how grim the ongoing recession has been for our state. However, few know about our oppressive Third World debt owed to the federal government for money borrowed to pay benefits to unemployed workers.
Published: Sunday, September 22nd, 2013 @ 11:55 pm
By: Thom Goolsby
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Mahatma Gandhi is remembered as a man of peace because of his nonviolent revolution that ended British rule of India.
Published: Wednesday, September 18th, 2013 @ 9:48 am
By: Thom Goolsby
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If Beverly Perdue is not the worst governor in North Carolina's long history, she is at least the worst in recent memory. She even managed to surpass her predecessor, convicted felon Mike Easley.
Published: Monday, September 16th, 2013 @ 4:31 am
By: Thom Goolsby
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Well before Gov. Pat McCrory was sworn into office, the leftist mainstream press battered him for not being bipartisan enough.
Published: Saturday, September 14th, 2013 @ 3:20 pm
By: Thom Goolsby
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"We have the opportunity to transform our culture of government through a top-to-bottom assessment of efficiency, effectiveness and more than anything else, a culture of customer service." These were the most important words of Governor Pat McCrory's inaugural address.
Published: Thursday, September 12th, 2013 @ 2:58 pm
By: Thom Goolsby
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Many constitutionalists, libertarians and conservatives are justifiably angry with President Obama due to his recent executive decrees regarding firearms.
Published: Wednesday, September 11th, 2013 @ 8:02 am
By: Thom Goolsby
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Do you know what happens in North Carolina if a government board, agency or commission refuses to obey the state's sunshine laws requiring open meetings and records? Absolutely nothing!
Published: Sunday, September 8th, 2013 @ 8:38 pm
By: Thom Goolsby
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There is an old saying, “A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn’t like the tune.” After years of mismanagement, our state’s economy is weighed down by $2.5 billion owed to Washington for our unemployment insurance debt.
Published: Thursday, August 29th, 2013 @ 10:50 pm
By: Thom Goolsby
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Have the Republicans lost their minds by rejecting Medicaid expansion? "Yes" is the answer, according to liberal Democrats and their allied editorial writers across the state.
Published: Tuesday, August 27th, 2013 @ 5:39 pm
By: Thom Goolsby
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