CHAPEL HILL (July 27, 2023) – If ever there was a contrast between those who want students at the University of North Carolina to represent all of North Carolina and ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Mark Merritt served as vice chancellor and general counsel for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2016-18, as Students for Fair Admissions v. UNC made ...

CHARLOTTE (July 26, 2023) – With the state budget for the next two years still unsettled, the Chair of the State Board of Education says it’s a critical time to ...

CHARLOTTE (July 20, 2023) – The Chair of the State Board of Education appreciates North Carolina teachers. And as legislators continue to dicker over the state budget, he says they ...

RALEIGH (July 20, 2023) – Members of the UNC Board of Governors showed Wednesday just what a microscope they use to probe UNC-Chapel Hill. A week after the U.S. Supreme Court ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: As President of Sara Lee Corporation, Paul Fulton penned these words in the early 1990s. Thirty years later, they are just as relevant. Fulton is the founder and ...

By Eric Johnson CHAPEL HILL (July 13, 2023) – Two recent decisions by the US Supreme Court — one ending affirmative action in college admissions and the other quashing President Joe ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Buck Goldstein, a Professor of the Practice in the School of Education, University Entrepreneur in Residence at UNC Chapel Hill and contributor to Higher Ed Works, retired from ...

By James H. Johnson, Jr., Ph.D., and Allan M. Parnell, Ph.D. CHAPEL HILL (July 6, 2023) – Affirmative action was the legal remedy ending decades of racial discrimination in college admissions. ...

Former UNC System and Davidson College President Tom Ross – also a former NC Superior Court judge – shared the following thoughts on the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on race-conscious ...