The Rev. Jeremiah Wright told attendees of a Sept. 19 event at a progressive church in Chapel Hill he is "giddily happy" with the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, blamed U.S. foreign policy for the rise of ISIS, and took swipes at President Obama for failing to push racial reparations and...
Published: Saturday, October 3rd, 2015 @ 4:57 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In a draft report released this week, the working group of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors has completed its review of the 240 research centers scattered among the system campuses. It recommends further review of only 13 and closure of just three.
Published: Thursday, February 19th, 2015 @ 6:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The UNC School of the Arts and UNC-Greensboro want to create two new master of fine arts programs which - especially to those outside academia - appear to be duplicative. UNCSA wants to confer MFAs in filmmaking, and UNCG wants to confer MFAs in media production.
Published: Thursday, January 30th, 2014 @ 2:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In 2009, the Pope Center produced a report on the UNC School of the Arts. The report's author, Max Borders, showed that on a per-student basis, UNCSA is North Carolina's most expensive publicly funded university. He concluded that, because of the expense and the school's uncertain economic...
Published: Wednesday, January 15th, 2014 @ 12:45 am
By: John William Pope Center
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A high-ranking manager at the UNC School of the Arts will keep her $114,695 a year job despite investigative findings that she improperly gave a state computer to her son for use at college and then obtained another one for herself at taxpayer expense.
Published: Friday, August 30th, 2013 @ 4:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Can membership groups exclude people who disagree with organization's principles?
Published: Saturday, March 10th, 2012 @ 8:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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