The report found that only a handful of states, including Arizona, Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina, require undergraduates to complete at least one civics or American government course.
A new research report from the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal shows that top medical schools across the nation have integrated the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) agenda across admissions, faculty hiring, and curricula. The report, written by the Martin Center’s Jay Schalin, argues for a return to a merit-based system, especially given the importance...
North Carolina's Republican Congresswoman Virginia Foxx, NC-05, has been tapped by Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Lousiana, to chair the powerful US House Committee on Rules. She was ratified by the conference Tuesday morning.
Dr. Conger, whose been a doctor at Duke for 12 years, questioned the science of racism being considered a health crisis. He said most of his colleagues in the emergency department felt the same way, but they wouldn’t speak up.
The final of three debates on challenges facing North Carolina’s education system is slated for Wednesday evening, November 1, in Benson at the W. J. Barefoot Auditorium. This time experts will focus on education funding in North Carolina. In the 2023 Hometown Debate series, a collaboration between the North Carolina Institute of Political Leadership and...
U.S. House Education Committee Chair Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-NC, is taking aim at the Biden Administration’s recently announced student loan forgiveness action, stating the executive branch is “trampling the rule of law.” In a recent press release, the U.S. Department of Education announced they would forgive $39 billion worth of student loan debt for more...
WalletHub released its yearly “Most & Least Educated Cities in America” report this week, and it ranked Durham and Chapel Hill together in the sixth most educated city, while Raleigh-Cary appeared in the eighth position. The the other N.C. cities included in the list were: Asheville, 28 Charlotte, 52 Greensboro, 96 Winston-Salem, 111 Fayetteville, 113...
The United States Supreme Court released an opinion Friday on whether President Joe Biden can unilaterally forgive more than $400 billion in student loan debt for an estimated 250 million people. The high court found that such a sweeping plan must be passed through the legislative branch.
In a pointed March 1 letter, released exclusively to Carolina Journal before delivery, North Carolina’s entire Republican congressional delegation, short Rep. Dan Bishop, pushed back against Belle Wheelan, president of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), the body that accredits higher education institutions in North Carolina and other Southern states.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will work to develop a School of Civic Life and Leadership to teach students in an age of cancel culture and censorship how to develop the knowledge and skills needed to advance and support a healthy democracy. The Board of Trustees voted 12-0 on Thursday to support...
Cornell Law School professor William A. Jacobson shared his experience at Harvard Law School in the early 1980s when the push to begin identifying people “by ethnic and racial groups as opposed to individual” began to take shape. The more politically moderate students graduated and went into business law, Jacobson noted, while the more radical students who studied critical legal theory went into academia.
