Opinion
Bring back merit: UNC System should weigh applicant test scores
By letting students withhold low test scores (students don’t withhold high scores), UNC is essentially ignoring a sign of poor performance.
Opinion
Can we disagree more constructively?
If you maintain a diversified portfolio of politically active friends — and you really ought to if you want to perceive the world as it is rather than as you imagine it to be — it’s essential to learn how best to handle passionate disagreements about controversial issues. When the US Supreme Court recently struck...
Opinion
Racial preferences are gone — now what?
As widely predicted, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has lost its admissions case before the U.S. Supreme Court. Six of nine justices decreed that neither UNC nor any other university that receives government funds may discriminate on the basis of race when choosing its students. That’s what UNC has been doing for...
Opinion
Campuses will try to keep discriminating
Later this year, the U.S. Supreme Court will finally compel the University of North Carolina and the rest of American higher education to halt the pervasive practice of racial and ethnic discrimination in admissions. Academic leaders should have ended this obnoxious and counterproductive policy on their own, decades ago. It shouldn’t have required lawsuits by...
News
In high school, the easy ‘A’ is even easier
Call it high-grade high school. When it comes to letter-grade earning power, high-schoolers are rich indeed. Grade inflation is real and it’s inequitable, padding the GPAs of wealthier students faster than others. Such are the findings of a Fordham Institute study that tracked grades in North Carolina public schools for over a decade. Increasingly, A is for...
Opinion
Ability to exercise free speech should be critical factor when choosing a college
Earning a scholarship to a college or university — whether that scholarship is academic or athletic — is quite the accomplishment, both for the student and the respective family. It relieves a huge financial obligation to be sure, but it also portends a positive future for the new student, who is arguably getting a head...
Opinion
UNC Policy Draws Lawsuit
Within North Carolina, the lawsuit against racial preferences at Chapel Hill got some initial publicity and then faded from the headlines. You can expect it to return.
Opinion
CEO Gets a Bum Rap
A federal Department of Education examination of admissions policies at N.C. State University does not reflect an attempt by a Washington-area think tank to reduce the ranks of minority students on campus.
Opinion
No. 777: Do the College Rankings Mean Anything?
The criteria used by U.S. News & World Report magazine in its ranking of universities leave the list meaningless.
Opinion
The Law School’s Phony Argument
UNC-Chapel Hill's politicized School of Law is arguing that race-based admissions would lead to resegregation. So why didn't this happen in California or Texas?
Opinion
Call. 97: Some Colleges Turn Away Top Applicants to Boost Rankings
When it comes to college admissions, some superior students face rejection from less competitive schools. But higher education leaders in North Carolina question whether or not the practice is widespread.
