Methodist liberal arts college in Rocky Mount, North Carolina
[3:15 p.m. note: This post has been edited to correct an error in the original article.] David Waugh writes for the Martin Center about poor graduation rates among N.C. colleges.…
A new report from the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings outlines a novel way to evaluate colleges: by measuring value added. In “Beyond College Rankings,” two Brookings scholars attempt to…
The American Enterprise Institute has just published a new study that examines graduation rates in American higher education. The upshot: At a time when college degrees are valuable–with employers paying…
The new University of California-Merced campus is struggling to enroll students. So is the new Georgia Gwinnett College, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Story here. Perhaps the school will fill…
To my considerable surprise, the commission that studied the feasibility of having the UNC system take over North Carolina Wesleyan and create a new member of the system, UNC-Rocky Mount…
The Rocky Mount Telegram today runs with the expected follow-up story on Monday’s decision to not move forward with bringing North Carolina Wesleyan into the UNC system. The story says…
News started to filter out yesterday and into the day that UNC President Erskine Bowles has decided against adding North Carolina Wesleyan College into the UNC system. This follows a…
I was trying to ignore this insane UNC-Rocky Mount crap — you know, by slamming my head in a car door, something less painful — and it was working. For…
The most annoying thing about this idea — even more than the squandering of taxpayer money to enrich the consultants who get to do the evaluation on the feasibility of…
Not long after posting this in reference to UNC’s possible takeover of NC Wesleyan, I encounter this (h.t. JG): Candidate: Holocaust didn’t happen … Speaking in an interview with The…
George, I just knew I shouldn’t have taunted UNC when I named that NC Wesleyan class the Course of the Month! But no, I couldn’t resist ? “move over, UNC’s…
About the need for UNC to take in NC Wesleyan — read all about it here. You see, Rocky Mount is the largest city in the state without an UNC…