CHAPEL HILL (May 28, 2026) – UNC-Chapel Hill hasn’t kept up with North Carolina’s growth. But it intends to now, with a plan to add 5,000 students over 10 years. Incredibly, at a time when many universities across the country see declining enrollment due to reduced birth rates, the UNC System sees increasing enrollment. North… READ MORE
Tenure: Are Bigger Issues Afoot with the UNC System?
CHAPEL HILL (May 22, 2026) – Once again, the University of North Carolina has become a culture-war battleground with the recent denial of tenure for Kiran Asher. Asher was one of six professors that the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees considered for new tenured appointments on May 13.1 Provost Magnus Egerstedt, along with faculty, had… READ MORE
Roberts: UNC faculty ‘the core of everything we do’
CHAPEL HILL (May 6, 2026) – There have been questions in recent years about how much University of North Carolina governing boards and administrators respect the role of the faculty in supporting the university’s reputation. But UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Lee Roberts leaves no doubt in the accompanying video. “Faculty are at the core of everything… READ MORE
Roberts: Running a university without a state budget
CHAPEL HILL (April 29, 2026) – How do you run a massive research university when the state legislature, amid persistent inflation, hasn’t adopted a new budget in three years? “It’s a challenge for Carolina and all the other schools in the (UNC) System to operate without a (new) state budget,” UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Lee… READ MORE
Former UNC soccer coach, daughter plead for school funding
By Amy Cockerham Public Ed Works CHAPEL HILL (April 23, 2026) – Former Coach Anson Dorrance of the UNC-Chapel Hill women’s soccer team and his daughter, Natalie Dorrance Harris, a school librarian, are speaking out on the public education funding crisis. Dorrance has 21 NCAA championships under his belt, which is the most by a… READ MORE
Ed Samulski: What would Horace Williams want?
CHAPEL HILL (March 11, 2026) – The proposed relocation of the Dean Dome to “Carolina North” seems to have hijacked the conversation into areas unrelated to the mission of a university. The outcry has drowned out another option the administration presented for the use of that land: An academic anchor in applied sciences. Carolina North… READ MORE
A chance to course correct in Chapel Hill
CHAPEL HILL (January 29, 2026) – The resignation of John Preyer from the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees1 creates an opening for the university to move away from unnecessary politicization and divisive overreach. Embracing shared governance and proven best practices would not only strengthen institutional credibility, but reaffirm the university’s commitment to academic excellence and public… READ MORE
UNC should not close its Global Studies Centers
By Lloyd Kramer CHAPEL HILL (January 22, 2026) – The recent announcement that UNC-Chapel Hill plans to close its six thriving Global Studies Centers is the wrong response to current financial and political challenges. Although I retired from the History Department’s faculty in 2024, this plan for closing the Centers has provoked my Tar Heel… READ MORE
Padilla: The beat goes on
By Art Padilla WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH (October 23, 2025) – The mess at Carolina’s new School for Civic Life and Leadership goes on. And on. The creation of the new school is an experiment that has proven to be a bad idea. Not least among the school’s problems are its vague and unrealistic goals. This is… READ MORE
Foundations of American Democracy: ‘What we should aspire to’
RALEIGH (October 1, 2025) – In an era where meddlesome legislators and governing boards try to dictate what professors should teach, 11 history professors at UNC-Chapel Hill took a mandate from the UNC System Board of Governors and made lemonade. After state legislators attempted to require every student to take a course in America’s foundational… READ MORE
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