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Following the courageous example of USC, which just banned the word "field" for its racist connotations, Harvard University has announced they will no longer allow students or faculty to use the word "Harvard" due to its own tragic history of racism.
Published: Friday, January 20th, 2023 @ 11:52 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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On Sept. 9, the UNC Chapel Hill Faculty Council met and approved a resolution entitled “On the Right and Duty of Faculty Members to Speak Freely and the Duty of the University to Protect Faculty Speech.”
Published: Thursday, September 22nd, 2022 @ 9:24 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Describing a culture of silencing conservative voices at UNCW, one trustee was driven to quit last week with an openly critical post of Seahawk nation on Facebook. Former UNCW Board of Trustees member Woody White revealed what he sees as a troubling trend in treatment of conservative faculty and stu
Published: Friday, November 5th, 2021 @ 7:59 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson announced Tuesday, March 16, the creation of a task force dedicated to giving “students, parents, and school faculty a voice to speak out about cases of bias, inappropriate materials, or indoctrination they see or experience in public schools.”
Published: Saturday, March 20th, 2021 @ 10:24 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The Faculty Council last month approved a resolution for a faculty committee dedicated to providing input to university administration about what to do with the Confederate statue.
Published: Monday, January 21st, 2019 @ 12:04 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has a proud history of supporting free speech and expression. One of the proudest moments in its history - and justifiably so - is how the entire university community fought the infamous Speaker Ban Law of the 1960s
Published: Wednesday, May 9th, 2018 @ 9:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Faculty leaders at the University of North Carolina's flagship campus recently signed a resolution supporting First Amendment rights
Published: Thursday, April 19th, 2018 @ 4:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Election season may not be the best time to go looking for sober reflection or respectful dialogue.
Published: Monday, November 21st, 2016 @ 3:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Most of our state's 16 public universities are thriving but the UNC Board of Governors and our General Assembly continue to look for solutions at struggling campuses in smaller communities and those with larger minority enrollments.
Published: Tuesday, May 24th, 2016 @ 4:35 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Protests turned violent during a Tuesday morning meeting of the UNC Board of Governors as students and faculty gathered once again to call for the removal of UNC president-elect Margaret Spellings, former secretary of education in the George W. Bush administration
Published: Thursday, January 28th, 2016 @ 3:59 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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On Feb. 27, the UNC Board of Governors voted to close the Center on Poverty, Work, and Opportunity at its Chapel Hill campus. Many on the left and faculty within the UNC system argued the board's decision was political and an attack on academic freedom.
Published: Sunday, May 3rd, 2015 @ 1:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last week, a working group from the UNC system's Board of Governors drew national attention and student and faculty protest after it announced plans to discontinue three of the system's 237 centers and increase oversight of thirteen others.
Published: Thursday, February 26th, 2015 @ 11:09 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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"Health Discoveries," a production of ECU-TV, will launch at 6 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 31. The "Health Discoveries" series, hosted by Dr. Samuel F. Sears, will highlight specific successes of East Carolina University faculty in solving important health problems via research, teaching and service.
Published: Saturday, September 6th, 2014 @ 9:24 am
By: ECU News Services
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When legislators and officials of the University of North Carolina and legislators consider costs, they prefer to focus on minor operational functions - such as heating bills. But that is mere nibbling around the edges.
Published: Thursday, September 4th, 2014 @ 9:35 am
By: John William Pope Center
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The University of North Carolina system recently took a step to make professors with tenure — the contractual arrangement granting job security to veteran faculty members — more accountable by revising its policy on post-tenure review.
Published: Friday, August 29th, 2014 @ 12:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Can a university be so influential and respected in a community that its public image can withstand any kind of onslaught?
Published: Saturday, July 26th, 2014 @ 2:40 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Students at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro pay the highest debt service fee - the fee used to pay for past and future campus construction costs - in the UNC system.
Published: Saturday, December 7th, 2013 @ 11:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Bill Barber, his rabble, and their allies in the media and North Carolina Democrat Party have been hitting us with sob stories about the short-changing of higher education in North Carolina that apparently started when that bad man from Charlotte moved into the executive mansion on Blount Street.
Published: Wednesday, November 27th, 2013 @ 10:21 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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North Carolina's public university system faces a number of challenges. Taxpayer funding has become more limited. Academic expectations are higher.
Published: Sunday, August 19th, 2012 @ 10:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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