What I’m watching election night
After months of anticipation, piles of money spent, endless TV commercials watched and too many visits from candidates to count, the 2020 election is finally here. Several of my colleagues…
After months of anticipation, piles of money spent, endless TV commercials watched and too many visits from candidates to count, the 2020 election is finally here. Several of my colleagues…
Jay Schalin of the Pope Center for Higher Education Policy highlights a disturbing requirement for students in one UNC education school. According to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro…
In addition to her latest television appearance, Becki Gray discussed top legislative news this week in a presentation to the Garner Morning Rotary Club and during her latest chat with…
The N&R’s Ed Hardin ponders another experiment that hasn’t quite panned out: UNCG playing home hoops games at the 23,000 seat Greensboro Coliseum, where the Spartans have lost nine straight:…
As Sam Hieb points out at the Greensboro blog, UNC-Greensboro Provost David Perrin is facing criticism after he forwarded an anti-marriage amendment email using his state email account. WGHP-TV has…
In today’s Pope Center piece Terry Stoops writes about the recent decision to hire as the new head of UNC-G’s education school a woman who adheres to “constructivist” education theories.…
View in your browser. Welcome One of North Carolina’s top schools of education will soon have a new dean. According to UNC-Greensboro Provost David H. Perrin, Dr. Karen Wixson "is…
It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that UNCG hoops is expected to come up short on Greensboro Coliseum revenues this season. Lest anyone accuse me of being a…
The City of Greensboro is still in the process of hiring a new city manager to replace the ousted Mitchell Johnson. At the rate the City Council is going, it…
There might be solid arguments against UNCC adding football, but Bill Friday and C.D. Spangler did not make them yesterday. They fail to recognize that the status quo cannot hold…
Steve Balch, president of the National Association of Scholars, likes to say that we don’t so much have higher education any more, as longer education. Going to college for many…
UNC-G is one of the universities that has attempted to damp down freedom of expression by students through the unseemly device of having designated free speech zones where they could…