Liberty
DEI Now ‘On the Run’
Editors at National Review Online assess the backlash against misguided diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. It was a great racket while it lasted, but so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)…
Marty Kotis
Research Brief
Education
Should the UNC System reduce tuition and fees?
While the majority of university faculty believe that online teaching is inferior to in-person instruction and invites academic fraud, UNC students now face a fall semester without the advantages of…
Education
Martin Center column highlights N.C. colleges’ response to coronavirus
Shannon Watkins of the Martin Center devotes her latest column to N.C. colleges’ reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic. On Friday, the University of North Carolina Board of Governors met in…
Education
CJ reports: Silent Sam ‘strike’ by instructors crosses a line, BOG’s Kotis says
The latest from UNC Chapel Hill in response to Silent Sam: At least 79 teacher assistants and instructors at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill are threatening to withhold grades…
Education
CJ Update: Dr. William Roper, UNC Health Care CEO, to become interim president of UNC System
Carolina Journal’s Kari Travis reports on the latest news from the UNC system: The announcement comes just one week after UNC President Margaret Spellings submitted her resignation to the board.…
Education
Carolina Journal reports: UNC facing tough questions after fall of Silent Sam
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is facing tough inquiries about campus security and law enforcement after the illegal toppling of Silent Sam, a Confederate statue on the…
Liberty
Gboro’s (shhh) $100+m bond
Greensboro alt-weekly Rhino Times editor John Hammer exposes the City Council’s plan to put a $100-plus million bond on the November ballot: Certainly putting over $100 million worth of bonds…
Liberty
Greenway key to Gboro developer’s next big project
Front-pager in Saturday’s News & Record on high-profile Greensboro developer and UNC Board of Governors member Marty Kotis’ ambitious project: a $100 million high-rise mixed-use development on a narrow stretch…
Liberty
What will bring back the middle class in NC? Progressivism
A cynical observer might find it not-so-coincidental that the Sunday News & Record ran a front-pager on North Carolina’s still-struggling middle and lower class right next to an analysis on how well…
Liberty
Marty Kotis and the UNC BOG
Yea I crack on the N&R quite a bit, but they’re doing a pretty good job covering the chaos surrounding the impending selection of a new UNC system president who…
Liberty
Does UNC really need another cheerleader?
Today the personnel and tenure committee of the UNC Board of Governors voted to approve the UNC General Administration’s request to create a new position: Associate Vice President of Strategic…
Liberty
Gboro: Close to somewhere you’d like to be
The Rhino’s John Hammer on the state of economic development in Greensboro: Scott Yost’s slogan is, “Greensboro: Close to Somewhere You’d Like to Be.” I doubt if that one will…