By Cindy Elmore, Ph.D. GREENVILLE (September 7, 2023) – Every fall semester, I put Election Day on my syllabus calendar. Students always eagerly hope this means class is cancelled that day. It ...

CHAPEL HILL (August 31, 2023) – If the killing of a professor by one of his students Monday at UNC-Chapel Hill tells us nothing else, it tells us how treacherous ...

By John Tate III  CHARLOTTE (August 23, 2023) – Why do we let our General Assembly dismantle K-12 public education as we have known it, to the detriment of our community’s ...

GREENSBORO (August 23, 2023) – Less than two weeks after it announced it makes a $2.4 billion economic impact on North Carolina’s economy, N.C. A&T State University announced it has ...

RALEIGH (August 16, 2023) – Here we go again. A year ago, North Carolina students – our most precious resource – started school with 5,000 teacher positions vacant across the state. A ...

CHAPEL HILL (August 10, 2023) – Faculty are the heart of any university. But what has politicization cost UNC-Chapel Hill?  Though not all of these faculty members cited university governance as ...

GREENSBORO (August 10, 2023) – N.C. A&T State University has an annual economic impact of $2.4 billion in North Carolina, supporting 17,337 jobs, according to a study released today. The study, ...

CHAPEL HILL (July 27, 2023) – If ever there was a contrast between those who want students at the University of North Carolina to represent all of North Carolina and ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Mark Merritt served as vice chancellor and general counsel for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2016-18, as Students for Fair Admissions v. UNC made ...

CHARLOTTE (July 26, 2023) – With the state budget for the next two years still unsettled, the Chair of the State Board of Education says it’s a critical time to ...