A North Carolina legend has died, leaving behind a rich legacy at the University of North Carolina.
Published: Thursday, August 2nd, 2018 @ 12:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Roy Cooper released the following statement today on the passing of former UNC President C.D. Spangler
Published: Saturday, July 28th, 2018 @ 1:14 am
By: Governor's Office
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The University of North Carolina system is welcoming new ideas on ways to keep students in school
Published: Friday, June 15th, 2018 @ 7:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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After months of searching, UNC-Asheville has a new chancellor. Nancy Cable, president of the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations - an organization that funds private higher education, health care, and religious causes, among others - was elected to lead the university
Published: Wednesday, June 6th, 2018 @ 11:53 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As the N.C. General Assembly drops its state budget for 2018-19, North Carolina's public colleges and universities vie for money to back career and technical education, employee raises, and system upgrades
Published: Friday, June 1st, 2018 @ 8:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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On most days and most roads, most drivers treat posted speed limits as the recommended speed
Published: Tuesday, May 15th, 2018 @ 7:13 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As state taxpayers, we own a lot of stuff - office, school and university buildings, state agencies and department offices, courthouses, prisons, libraries, books ... and lots of land
Published: Thursday, March 1st, 2018 @ 2:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Like just about every university and college these days, mine — N.C. State University — spends millions each year on a sprawling bureaucracy advocating racial, gender, and other types of “cultural” diversity
Published: Tuesday, December 19th, 2017 @ 1:53 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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It was a homecoming for Raleigh native Jonathan Kappler in October when he became executive director of the North Carolina FreeEnterprise Foundation
Published: Thursday, November 16th, 2017 @ 4:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A three-judge panel is currently tasked with interpreting one of our state's thorniest issues, namely who is in charge of public education. Is it to be the State Board of Education or the state Superintendent of Public Instruction?
Published: Sunday, July 2nd, 2017 @ 9:00 am
By: Tom Campbell
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University of North Carolina system president Margaret Spellings will deliver the commencement address at East Carolina University's Spring Commencement ceremony
Published: Tuesday, April 25th, 2017 @ 3:55 pm
By: ECU News Services
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A host of luminaries led by UNC system President Margaret Spellings used a Thursday press conference to announce a newly branded North Carolina Teaching Fellows Program
Published: Monday, March 13th, 2017 @ 9:35 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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University of North Carolina system campus leaders are entangled in regulations that waste time and money, and they should be free from such worries, system President Margaret Spellings said Friday
Published: Wednesday, January 18th, 2017 @ 3:51 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina General Assembly's recently released budget for 2016-17 increases University of North Carolina System appropriations by $168 million, $31 million of which will be dedicated to fund projected enrollment increases. At many of the system's 16 universities, however, increased funding
Published: Wednesday, July 6th, 2016 @ 1:28 am
By: John William Pope Center
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A new training course and flight simulator used by U.S. Army and Air Force cadets at East Carolina University is helping develop the nation's future military leaders.
Published: Wednesday, June 8th, 2016 @ 6:07 am
By: ECU News Services
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Governor Pat McCrory has filed a declaratory judgment action asking the federal courts to clarify federal law.
Published: Tuesday, May 10th, 2016 @ 10:23 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Students could face punishment, including the possibility of expulsion, for engaging in conscious acts stifling the First Amendment rights of others, and the UNC system would be required to implement free speech rules, under a plan Lt. Gov. Dan Forest hopes to turn into law.
Published: Saturday, May 7th, 2016 @ 9:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A study of the UNC System's administration, released last week, recommends realignment of the management of UNC's 16 universities-mostly to fulfill campus wish lists
Published: Wednesday, April 20th, 2016 @ 2:40 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Governor Pat McCrory led an educational discussion about Connect NC today at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Governor McCrory is the first governor to visit the UNCSA campus in more than 10-years. The conversation focused on what the bond would bring to UNCSA and the Triad...
Published: Monday, February 22nd, 2016 @ 3:37 am
By: McCrory Communications
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The East Carolina University Board of Trustees unanimously passed a resolution Friday in support of an upcoming bond referendum called "Connect NC." ECU is the first institution in the 17-member University of North Carolina system to formally support the $2 billion bond.
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 5:58 am
By: ECU News Services
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Governor Pat McCrory issued the following statement after the announcement that Margaret Spellings was unanimously elected President of the University of North Carolina System by the Board of Governors
Published: Saturday, October 24th, 2015 @ 10:36 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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UNC Board of Governors Chairman John Fennebresque and Margaret Spellings, the top candidate to become UNC system president, left a recent "emergency" meeting of the board to meet with Gov. Pat McCrory, a source at the meeting told Carolina Journal. Fennebresque and Spellings were in a closed...
Published: Thursday, October 22nd, 2015 @ 4:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Pat McCrory's spokesman confirmed Tuesday afternoon that the governor met with "a candidate" for president of the UNC system at the governor's mansion. This news, in an email to Carolina Journal, came just as the UNC system released an agenda showing that the new president will be named at...
Published: Thursday, October 22nd, 2015 @ 12:10 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The average annual income in North Carolina is just over $40,000. But senior-level bureaucrats in the University of North Carolina system's General Administration (GA)-who take home six-figure salaries-say they need a raise. This Friday, the system's Board of Governors will vote on a proposed...
Published: Saturday, September 19th, 2015 @ 5:24 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Results from an employer survey recently released by the University of North Carolina system suggest that graduates of the state's 16 public universities - especially those from less selective schools - are deficient in terms of their written and oral communication, work ethic, and workplace etiquet
Published: Sunday, September 6th, 2015 @ 9:14 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Results from an employer survey recently released by the University of North Carolina system suggest that graduates of the state's 16 public universities - especially those from less selective schools - are deficient in terms of their written and oral communication, work ethic, and workplace...
Published: Thursday, August 13th, 2015 @ 5:38 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Governor Pat McCrory today challenged the North Carolina Education Cabinet to continue to work together to ensure North Carolina's education system is preparing students for the skills business and industry will need in the future.
Published: Friday, July 17th, 2015 @ 12:05 am
By: McCrory Communications
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The GOP takeover in Raleigh presented all kinds of opportunities to remake the political landscape for years to come.
Published: Sunday, June 21st, 2015 @ 3:19 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Last week Gov. Pat McCrory released his budget proposal for the 2015-2017 biennium, his spending plan for $22 billion in each of the next two fiscal years. While there are some positive spending decisions in this budget, there are also some discouraging choices in certain areas of government...
Published: Friday, March 13th, 2015 @ 2:55 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A new report from the Center for American Progress alleges that the "Great Recession" that began in 2008 devastated public university investments nationwide.
Published: Wednesday, November 26th, 2014 @ 4:24 am
By: John William Pope Center
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The UNC Board of Governors perhaps opened a can of worms by allowing three historically black universities to lower their SAT admission standards.
Published: Sunday, November 2nd, 2014 @ 12:25 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Fewer young men and women want to become teachers, according to a report from the UNC system. It is easy to see why enrollments in schools of education have decreased as much as 23 percent or more over the past five years.
Published: Tuesday, September 30th, 2014 @ 4:22 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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