RALEIGH — Edward Stringham, a professor at Fayetteville State University, noticed an absence of professors trained in the principles of entrepreneurship. To train Ph.D. students to teach such courses, Stringham is proposing a doctoral program at Fayetteville State. Stringham is a professor in the university’s business school, which would house the program.
RALEIGH — Hillsdale College recognized that meeting NCATE’s standards would be costly for a school of its size, with 1,300 students in total. And while officials of the school had not been happy with the state’s requirements, they considered going to national accreditation would make matters worse.
RALEIGH — Beginning this fall, students at Belmont Abbey College, a Catholic college near Charlotte, must take a core curriculum comprising 12 specific semester courses as well as electives in fields such as mathematics and fine arts.
RALEIGH — Economic prospects for both the state and the university have changed dramatically since the UNC system released its “UNC Tomorrow” report in 2007, but that hasn’t stopped UNC from pushing its broad vision as a driver of economic transformation in North Carolina.
RALEIGH — Nationally, for-profit post-secondary schools have been inundated by controversy in recent months. While they have expanded the market for higher education to underserved populations, especially working adults, they have drawn a lot of fire, especially from officials at more established schools.
RALEIGH — One University of North Carolina system school, Fayetteville State University, is in front of the rest when it comes to an important type of transparency: the public online posting of course descriptions.
RALEIGH -- When I joined the Pope Center three years ago, I thought I knew a fair bit about higher education. In addition to reading widely to prepare for the job, I’d spent more than 20 years as an editor working with academic scholars — and I am married to an emeritus professor and former department head.
RALEIGH — Last fall Raleigh's Shaw University fired a professor for “disloyalty” and evicted a student from campus housing over a faculty resolution criticizing Shaw President Talbert O. Shaw and the Board of Trustees. In January the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education sent Shaw a letter about the controversy, stating that “terminating a professor for such criticism shows utter contempt for the foundational principles of democracy and transforms a university into something more resembling a dictatorship than a place of learning in society.”
