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NC State asks applying students to affirm DEI
North Carolina State University now requires undergraduate applicants to answer an essay question affirming their support for the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) agenda.
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UNC System claims ‘massive liability’ from suit over fees paid during COVID shutdown
The University of North Carolina System argues that a recent N.C. Court of Appeals decision exposes the university to “massive liability.” The decision would allow students from N.C. State and UNC-Chapel Hill to sue over fees paid during COVID-19 campus shutdowns. University officials filed paperwork Tuesday asking the N.C. Supreme Court to take up the case.
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N.C. Supreme Court agrees to block COVID-related suit targeting UNC, NCSU fees
The N.C. Supreme Court has granted a temporary stay in the case of UNC and N.C. State students challenging fees paid for services that were unavailable during the COVID-19 pandemic. The court issued the stay without comment Friday afternoon.
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NCSU study shows tax incentives harm state’s economy
The economic costs of corporate tax incentives outweigh their benefits, a new study by N.C. State University researchers says. The study focused on three types of tax incentives — investment or job creation tax credits, property tax abatements, and research and development tax credits. Though perhaps the best known incentive, job creation or investment...
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Scholarship program is a worthwhile investment
Debate over the impact of the Opportunity Scholarship Program was renewed recently when N.C. State researchers Anna Egalite, D.T. Stallings, and Stephen Porter published a study that found “large positive impacts associated with voucher usage in North Carolina.” Their working paper is actually the fourth published analysis of the Opportunity Scholarship Program, the state’s voucher program for low-income...
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Opportunity Scholarship researchers shed light on study
N.C. State University professors Anna Egalite and Stephen Porter find new recipients of Opportunity Scholarships scored significantly higher than their public school counterparts in math, reading, and language arts. They shared some insight into their study — setting the foundation for future studies into the program — during the Opportunity Scholarship program at the John Locke Foundation’s...
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N.C. State making little effort to promote viewpoint heterogeneity
Like just about every university and college these days, mine — N.C. State University — spends millions each year on a sprawling bureaucracy advocating racial, gender, and other types of “cultural” diversity. A university should be a marketplace of ideas to be discovered, understood, analyzed, and debated. Students and research produced should be rigorous, judicious, and worldly. A public...
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N.C. State researchers say solar lobby silencing them
Ron Heiniger just wanted to be a farmer. He encouraged research to avoid solar industry encroachment on North Carolina’s prime farmlands. But because of his academic study, the respected crop and soil scientist has become an unwilling poster child for anti-solar activists, vilified by the solar lobby, and chastened by his employer, N.C. State University....
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Big solar farms may be stressing agricultural ecosystem
Ron Heiniger isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty. He has spent years as a crop and soil scientist helping hard-pressed farmers to get maximum yield and quality from their crops. The N.C. State Cooperative Extension Service professor says it’s his calling in life. These days Heiniger, who works at the Vernon G. James Research...
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UNC campuses no longer free-speech zones?
RALEIGH — What started with a simple conversation among three students at North Carolina State University ended in a lawsuit. Hannalee Alrutz wanted something different, but actions by the administration left her little choice. Alrutz is president of Grace Christian Life, an evangelical campus group at N.C. State with roughly 100 members, who distributed pamphlets...
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NCGA leader wants voters to approve Cooper’s bond proposal
RALEIGH — Gov. Roy Cooper has proposed borrowing $350.7 million for state government structures and buildings in the University of North Carolina system. Voters won’t have a say. These are limited obligation bonds that don’t require a vote. And for the second consecutive year, the debt package fails to fund repairs and maintenance needs for...
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N.C. State free-speech decision could set precedent
North Carolina State University recently tossed out a rule that evangelical campus group Grace Christian Life said blocked its free-speech rights, a move that may set a precedent for statewide reform of controversial speech policies on University of North Carolina system campuses. GCL on Tuesday abandoned a lawsuit against N.C. State following the school’s decision to...
