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If you’re anticipating any criticism from the UNC System office of East Carolina University’s defacto open-admissions policy, well, you’re likely to be disappointed. The line there is that the Greenville school’s 89% acceptance rate (and by extension, similar percentages from such campuses as App State, UNC Greensboro and Western Carolina)...

By Ray Gronberg

December 2, 2024

Sports wagering money for Carolina and State?

Berger signaled that he’s open to allowing the athletic programs at UNC Chapel Hill and NC State University share the proceeds of the state’s sports-wagering taxes. The initial authorization for the program, passed in 2023, earmarked a share of the 18% tax on sports books’ gross wagering revenue for 13 of...

By Ray Gronberg

November 22, 2024

Cabarrus County school bonds

Cabarrus County officials left the Local Government Commission’s November meeting with permission to borrow up to $151 million for school and library projects. But the vote came in two parts, and the approval for one of those parts was more controversial than the other. The LGC was unanimously in favor...

By Ray Gronberg

November 18, 2024

UNC System looks at all-campus conduct strategy

Officials at the UNC System want its universities to more closely align their approaches to campus conduct, in part in response to pro-Palestinian demonstrations at UNC Chapel Hill and other campuses last fall and spring. System General Counsel Andrew Tripp said that after a survey of campuses, officials have identified...

By Ray Gronberg

November 18, 2024

Early retirement at UNC: Back for more?

The UNC System’s $16.8 million drive to convince some tenured professors to take early retirement is such a success in the eyes of headquarters staff that it’ll likely ask for more money next year to pay for a second round. By the end of fiscal 2024-25, all of the first-round...

By Ray Gronberg

November 18, 2024

Research oversight at UNC

Federal security restrictions are complicating life for university researchers, but officials at the UNC System and its flagship campuses are assuring system leaders that they’re on top of the situation. The rules and expectations around research security have “really developed over the last five years and the track is really...

By Ray Gronberg

November 14, 2024

ECU admissions

UNC System officials have updated their online data dashboards by plugging in the numbers for the fall 2024 cohort of students, so all manner of interesting research is once again possible. For starters, let’s have a look at East Carolina University. There’s a subset of ECU alums who believe the...

By Ray Gronberg

November 12, 2024

Tax-exempt bonds for a football practice field

Speaking of Appalachian State, the Boone institution appears poised to get the UNC System’s permission to issue $19 million in tax-exempt bonds to help finance a new indoor practice facility for its football team. Officials are presenting the deal to the Board of Governors this week. It should save the...

By Ray Gronberg

November 12, 2024

Peers across the UNC system

Context is everything, and we have to look at whether ECU’s practices stand out amongst the system’s 16 universities. Compared with co-flagships UNC Chapel Hill and NC State, it does. Chapel Hill for the fall 2024 cohort offered admission to 15.3% of the 65,334 recent high school grads who put...

By Ray Gronberg

November 12, 2024

NCInnovation adds to campus hub network

NCInnovation and the UNC System have nearly doubled the number of system universities that are functioning as hubs for the effort to bolster the commercialization of faculty research. Appalachian State, Fayetteville State and UNC Wilmington are joining a network that already included East Carolina, UNC Charlotte, N.C. A&T State and...

By Ray Gronberg

November 1, 2024

Woodson touts NC State’s economic contributions

NC State Chancellor Randy Woodson’s final fall address to the campus community on Wednesday was a victory lap for a tenure that’s seen the university rise in the national spotlight. Woodson underscored that NCSU plays a key role in driving the state’s economy forward, working with other agencies to help...

By Ray Gronberg

October 31, 2024

State channeling aid to Helene-affected UNC students

Legislators and UNC System officials are trying to help students of the system’s three western universities with their bills in the wake of Hurricane Helene. The second-round relief package included a $5.5 million allocation that will cover spring tuition (or its in-state equivalent) for all students at UNC Asheville, the...

By Ray Gronberg

October 30, 2024

ECU moves out provost, top lawyer

There’s been a big shakeup in East Carolina University’s senior staff, with Chancellor Philip Rogers announcing on Thursday that he’s replaced the institution’s provost and general counsel. In an email to ECU faculty and staff, Rogers said he’s installed music professor Chris Buddo as interim provost and made Meagan Kiser...

By Ray Gronberg

October 25, 2024

Project Kitty Hawk

The UNC System says 558 students are enrolled in online degree programs that its member schools have created with help from an initiative the legislature funded with $97 million n 2021. The programs are the early fruit of partnerships N.C. Central, East Carolina and Appalachian State universities struck with Project...

By Ray Gronberg

October 21, 2024

NC Promise: Not for the summer?

The hold-harmless funding legislators pledged to give UNC System campuses that agreed to participate in the N.C. Promise tuition-cap program is beginning to fall a bit short. System officials are preparing to allocate a combined $78.6 million to Elizabeth City State, Fayetteville State, UNC Pembroke and Western Carolina, money that’s...

By Ray Gronberg

October 14, 2024

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