Gov. Roy Cooper’s end-of-tenure victory lap around North Carolina brought him to Durham on Tuesday, where he touted a couple of initiatives he and his aides launched in hopes of boosting community-college completion rates. Cooper focused mostly on the N.C. Community Colleges’ Finish Line Grants, small allocations of up to $1,000 to help students who […]
If you’re anticipating any criticism from the UNC System office of East Carolina University 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) is partly a function of […]
Mack Brown’s ouster as UNC Chapel Hill’s football coach is generating far more controversy than I thought would’ve been the case after his team gave up 70 points to visiting James Madison back in September. And it’s controversy of the sort that could once again test UNC System President Peter Hans’ insistence that on system […]
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