Out of North Carolina come some disturbing new details about a death on the campus of High Point University. In March 2012, Robert Eugene Tipton, Jr., a student at the…

…Many schools, including the 16 campuses of the University of North Carolina system, put in place an “individual mandate” years before the Affordable Care Act. With the Act’s passage, all…

…the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill — (applause.) I was talking to another good-looking group of students. Jimmy Fallon and I taped his show there tonight — make sure…

…Fisher, targeting Harvard, the University of North Carolina, and the University of Wisconsin. “The Supreme Court last year imposed incredibly high hurdles colleges must overcome when using racial and ethnic…

…political or personal viewpoints. These cases are notoriously hard to prove and to win–and that’s why University of North Carolina-Wilmington professor Dr. Mike Adams’ court victory this month is so…

…athletic rivalries will end. Southern California will no longer play UCLA in football; nor will Stanford play Cal or Duke play North Carolina. But this will mark just the beginning…

…to raise questions about the rush to judgment. Johnson Hostler, then executive director of the North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault, was quoted extensively in a Cybercast News Service story…

I’ve written previously about the scandal at the University of North Carolina, where for several years, students (who were disproportionately members of UNC athletics teams) took no-show courses in the…

…(should we even bother to interview graduates of Purdue or North Carolina State University?), but it helps universities identify their strengths and weaknesses regarding their own preparation of students for…

…Indiana, and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill have adopted some version of this. Will honest transcripts exercise a salutary effect? It’s too soon to say, given the small number…

…closed with a simple message: colleges should “leave justice to the justice system.” No Counsel Allowed A few weeks later, the student newspaper at the University of North Carolina, the…

…at the top of public universities, UT ranks below five campuses of the University of California, and below schools in several much smaller states – Michigan, Virginia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania,…

…2012 Republican National Convention, and the election law recently passed on a party-line vote in North Carolina’s GOP-controlled legislature.) Three lessons come to mind about the affair. First, as FIRE’s…

Reporting on a first-in-the-nation law passed in North Carolina, Inside Higher Ed’s Allie Grasgreen spoke to three administrators in the UNC system, plus a “Dear Colleague” letter defender. The law…

…in a Capitol elevator, Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., urged his fellow GOP negotiators Richard M. Burr of North Carolina and Lamar Alexander of Tennessee to cancel the meeting. Just an…

…East Carolina University would cost roughly $26,000, then added, “But, according to the North Carolina state legislature, that doesn’t mean it’s worth anything.” That’s correct. Merely because something has costs…

Two recent academic-tinged scandals in college athletics seem saturated in political correctness. At the University of North Carolina, some student-athletes (as well as some non-athletes) benefited from taking no-show classes….

…for 60 percent of our college grads. Public colleges like North Carolina at Chapel Hill and private ones like NYU have almost reached the 60 percent mark already. The University…

…sex scandal involving underage boys at Penn State. The granting of credit to athletes for phantom courses at the respected University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill would have led…

Wayward reporter Richard Perez–Pena, who covers campus sex codes and hearings for the New York Times, recently examined events at four campuses: Amherst, Yale, the University of North Carolina, and…

…previously, and skeptically, about one such filing, at the University of North Carolina. Pérez-Peña’s current article uncritically accepts the petitioners’ account of their cases, and offers no quotes from a…

…here), Florida, and North Carolina. But we can also see a soft version of it in even our progressive president’s State of the Union address. The governors have demanded that…

…not historically subject. Colleges, like the University of North Carolina, fear such accountability, since has the potential to disrupt their business model. The Journal profiled a 23-year old graduate of…

A petition hosted by MoveOn.org is circulating protesting comments made by North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory about the curriculum in colleges and universities in the state.  He made his remarks…

…backgrounds functioning well: Erskine Bowles (former presidential chief of staff) at the University of North Carolina, David Boren and Hank Brown (former U.S. Senators) at the universities of Oklahoma and…

A team headed by former North Carolina governor (and Davidson professor) James Martin has released its long-awaited report regarding academic misconduct in the UNC Department of African and African-American Studies. Heavy…