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The North Carolina State Board of Elections (SBE) has announced that it is accepting applications from educational institutions and government agencies so their student and employee IDs can be used…
February 1, 1960 | Four African-American students from NC A&T were refused service at the Woolworth’s in downtown Greensboro. They had ordered coffee. Their action inspired a wave of sit-ins across the…
In today’s News & Observer op-ed, Shaw University president Paulette Dillard promotes Raleigh’s proposed Downtown Entertainment District, which would be anchored by a $150 million, 20,000-seat stadium that ostensibly would…
[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.…
According to Forbes, North Carolina hosts three colleges and universities with the worst return on investment (ROI). 9. Fayetteville State University (out-of-state tuition) Four-year cost as of 2012: $113,400 30-year…
In today’s Pope Center piece, Jay Schalin writes about the troubles facing Shaw University and St. Augustine’s College. Both are struggling. Shaw would probably have already folded but for a…
I appreciate the outreach program that brought Shaw University students to Ligon Middle School in Wake County. While it appears that both the Shaw mentors and Ligon students are African-American…
In the latest edition of Corporate Welfare Weekly, the analysts at the N.C. Institute for Constitutional Law focus on the $150,00 the Durham City Council wants to extend to a…
So reports the N&O here. Want to bet that the taxpayers never get their money back? If individuals and private lenders won’t put up enough money to keep Shaw going…
Sometimes historical scholarship tells us more about the present than about the past. The study of Omar ibn Said, I fear, is one such case. A recent exhibit at Shaw…
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…
Raleigh city planners have dubbed their latest development project “Moore Square South,” but anyone who’s been to Moore Square lately will remember that City Market lies directly to the South…