Opinion
The DEI crux: When inclusion triggers workplace exclusion
A just workplace is built on principled standards — anchored in equality, rooted in merit, and free from financial distortion or conflicts of interest.
Opinion
Super Perks, Salaries, and Turnover
Local school boards in large districts offer superintendents such lucrative compensation packages that rural districts often have a tough time hiring and keeping competent or even mediocre leaders.
Opinion
The Superintendent Shuffle
Encouraging school districts to consider nontraditional superintendents from the private and nonprofit sectors may disrupt the pattern of hiring candidates who simply want to move up the career ladder.
Opinion
Am I Blue?
The issue isn’t so much whether Blue Cross & Blue Shield or any other insurer dominates the market, but why.
Opinion
Flashback: On Markets, Pick & Stick
UNC officials say that competition in higher education is a real problem — unless, of course, it seems to justify high salaries for administrators.
Opinion
Lindalyn’s Journal
Across the board, the cost of education is skyrocketing. Recently, the Mecklenburg County School Board approved an operational budget approaching $1 billion. In Wake County, the school board approved a more than $1 billion request for facility needs.
Opinion
On the Arts Museum Flap
The director of the North Carolina Museum of Art is paid for more than his state salary of about $100,000, thanks to a private foundation. This is a problem, but the solution is not to pay him less.
Opinion
Business Imperatives & the Lotto
Gambling enterprises, like other businesses, prosper to the extent they employ talented, entrepreneurial people and make effective use of advertising. But the North Carolina lottery will be a state agency.
Opinion
On Markets, Pick & Stick
UNC officials say that competition in higher education is a real problem — un less, of course, it seems to justify a half-million-dollar salary for the next system president.
Opinion
No. 844: California Dreamin’ for UNC President’s Salary
North Carolina's taxpayers are being nickeled and dimed to pay the exorbitant salary of the new UNC president.
