February 16, 2005

Carolina in the News

Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina
people and programs cited recently in the media:

National Coverage

Some states getting tough on cheating
The Dallas Morning News
The stakes are high. Test scores can determine school rankings, federal aid and bonuses for teachers and principals...."Every cliché that you want to invoke, like it's the mice watching the cheese or the fox guarding the henhouse, applies," said Greg Cizek, a University of North Carolina professor who studies cheating.

Can Fiorina trump competition for 'worst tech CEO' title? (Commentary)
USA Today
Welcome to American Ouster - where former technology CEOs who were booted by their boards compete to see who did the most damage to their companies....And the business school profs: Robert Kelley of Carnegie Mellon University, Jeff Cannon of the University of North Carolina, Jeffrey Sonnenfeld of Yale University and S.P. Kothari of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

State & Local Coverage

Who pays? (Editorial)
The Charlotte Observer
A college education in North Carolina should not cost an arm and a leg. That's not just high-minded nonsense. It's the mandate of the state Constitution...The Board of Governors made a deep and welcome bow to the Constitution -- and to citizens -- with a year-long freeze on undergraduate tuition. Now, the state should work to strike an equitable balance between the need for additional resources and the financial burden on students. The Constitution demands it, and lawmakers should listen. Every citizen stands to lose if North Carolina becomes a place where only the well-to-do can better themselves.

Students should pay the freight (Commentary)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
After the UNC Board of Governors rejected minuscule in-state tuition increases at its 16 campuses, member Hannah Gage admitted the state's public universities need more money but said, "The question is, do we once again put it on the backs of students?"...For example, UNC-Chapel Hill is consistently rated among the nation's top five public institutions. Yet, the $4,359 in tuition and fees charged to in-state students is 15 percent lower than the public university national average.

Driving tuition down (Letter to the Editor)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The recent proposal to raise tuition at UNC-Chapel Hill by $250 a year has produced the predictable squeals of student outrage. Like most faculty members, I suspect, I'm less than sympathetic to students whose family incomes are higher than mine....John Shelton Reed, William Rand Kenan Jr., Professor Emeritus UNC-Chapel Hill

Discouraging hike (Letter to the Editor)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
As an out-of-state university student in North Carolina, I am appalled by the disparities present in proposed tuition increases.

UNC hopes meningitis shot's debut is a hit
The Herald-Sun (Durham)/The Chapel Hill Herald
Jesse Prentice-Dunn is one college student who got the message....A UNC sophomore, Prentice-Dunn took the meningitis vaccine before he enrolled as a freshman. He knew at least a little about the risks of the potentially deadly disease, and his parents gave him a bit of an extra push.

Union sorting out legalities of construction role
The Charlotte Observer
He doesn't do it as much as he used to, but every once in a while Rick Davis still drinks a glassful of water from his tap....The county could try to donate its services to the residents, but even that may not be legal, said Fleming Bell, a public law and government professor at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Government.

Transformation And Grace
Up & Coming Magazine (Fayetteville)
In Gallery 208, Dennis Zaborowski explores symbols and narratives within a religious or ritualistic framework in small-scale tempera paintings....Zaborowski has been a faculty member at UNC-Chapel Hill for the past 36 years, since the Fall of 1968.

Issues & Trends

Costs of Education Slope Sharply Upward
The Washington Post
This month, President Bush proposed a $56 billion education budget for fiscal 2006, nearly 1 percent less than this year's spending. If approved by Congress, it would represent the first reduction in federal support for education in a decade.
Related link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24397-2005Feb14.html

Public Mission of State Colleges Is Endangered by Increasing Competition and Privatization, Report Says
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Increased competition among universities and trends toward privatization are threatening the public mission of state universities and colleges, according to a report scheduled for release today.
Subscription required.

NCCU moves to raise tuition
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
The UNC system wants to freeze tuition next year, but an N.C. Central University trustees committee said Tuesday it still backs a $300 increase for the Durham campus.

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