RALEIGH — Starting next fall, N.C. Central University, Elizabeth City State University, and Fayetteville State University will be allowed to admit students with SAT scores as low as 750 (the current systemwide minimum is 800). The three historically black universities are part of a pilot program approved at the October UNC Board of Governors meeting.
RALEIGH — The society is lobbying the state to adopt a system under the supervision of Community Care of North Carolina that would allow physicians to keep the majority of money the state would save through health care delivery reforms, similar to the federally approved Medicare Shared Savings Program.
RALEIGH — Free-market advocates contend Community Care of North Carolina, a nonprofit organization that runs the state’s Medicaid program, has contributed to the $1.17 billion deficits in Medicaid that have occurred over the past three years. They say CCNC is not held accountable for cost overruns.
RALEIGH — Consultants who assess health care spending can make cost savings for Medicaid programs such as North Carolina’s showcase Community Care of North Carolina a moving target to reach whatever conclusions the hiring agency wants, experts in the field say.
RALEIGH — Around the country, the economic downturn caught many schools by surprise, and both public and private universities have been searching for ways to cut back. At least initially, private colleges were more aggressive in crafting strategic cuts.
Justice Brandeis once referred to sunlight as the “best of disinfectants,” as he affirmed the central role of publicity in effecting social change. School officials in Wake County will soon learn just how true this is as they embark on a sizeable bit of housecleaning in the months to come.
North Carolina is said to be facing a “hunger crisis,” but the issue is fraught with exaggeration and faulty statistics. Chronic hunger, like chronic poverty, remains rare — though each case is tragic.
Think you know the whole story about George Washington crossing the Delaware? Probably not unless you have read a recent, Pulitzer-winning book by the eminent historian David Hackett Fischer.
Lochner v. New York is an often-mentioned but misunderstood 1905 Supreme Court decision that lends its name to this excellent analysis of constitutional jurisprudence by Professor Michael J. Phillips. Phillips, professor emeritus of business administration at Indiana University, has written probably the best book by a nonlawyer on any aspect of constitutional law, and the best survey of the Lochner line of cases by anyone. This book is a penetrating revisionist history of a key period in our legal history.
