Recent survey data from the N.C. Faith and Freedom Coalition and N.C. Values Coalition shows that registered N.C. voters prefer Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis over President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump in the 2024 general election. Results also showed N.C. Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson leading current N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein in a potential matchup for governor in 2024.
Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson is still seriously considering running for the U.S. Senate and has set a deadline of the end of April to decide whether to enter the race, Robinson chief of staff and top political adviser Conrad Pogorzelski tells Carolina Journal. “He has been contacted by his supporters, elected officials from all levels,...
RALEIGH — North Carolina’s public universities remain relatively affordable. The average UNC system student with an income of less than $30,000 paid just $6,511 in net costs in 2011-12. By contrast, students with family income greater than $110,000 paid more than double that amount — $15,634. The $6,511 figure is not all that different from the cost of living at home without attending school.
RALEIGH — Faculty salaries are roughly half of the University of North Carolina system’s budget. Even slight adjustments could mean savings well into the tens of millions of dollars. Using official data taken directly from university registrars’ websites, the Pope Center’s Jay Schalin found that the UNC estimates of faculty teaching loads were inflated by roughly one course per professor per semester.
RALEIGH — If the new system is transparent, it will be a gold mine for social science research. Knowing the annual academic performance of each child in the state from preschool on will give researchers a powerful tool to investigate long-term educational outcomes that previously were impossible to track.
RALEIGH — Despite the economic downturn, university funding and spending in North Carolina grew in 2011.
RALEIGH — As faculty teach fewer courses, more of them are needed to handle the students who are enrolled. Nationally, teaching loads have been falling for more than two decades.
RALEIGH — A quick review of the facts reveals that American universities often deliver content that is easy, biased, or of questionable value — at great expense to students, parents, and taxpayers.
