WHAT IS CITIZENS FOR HIGHER EDUCATION?
Citizens for Higher Education works to build political support for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the state’s other research universities. We aim to help the university:
- Address the challenge of competition for funds;
- Recruit and retain a world-class faculty;
- Attract the best and brightest students; and
- Enhance cutting-edge research that is critical to the state economy.
We are a political-action committee that backs state candidates who share our goals. We also take positions on issues to help the university. Our positions have always been consistent with those of the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees.
Members pay dues of $2,500 a year to help. To become a member, click here or call 919-510-9240. To sign up for e-mail updates, click here.
Friday, October 31, 2008 Note: To see Kiplinger's story and rankings chart, click here. Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine has ranked the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill the number one best value in American public higher education for the eighth consecutive time. Carolina has topped this list every time Kiplinger’s has produced it since 1998. The new ranking appears in the magazine’s December issue, which hits newsstands Nov. 11. Submitted by Site Admin on Fri, 2008-10-31 14:47.
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The Daily Tar Heel
October 30, 2008 Brendan Brown, Projects Co-Editor A controversial political action committee run by UNC-Chapel Hill trustees has raised its standing as one of the state’s largest lobbying groups. Though still trailing the interest groups for realtors and trial lawyers, Citizens for Higher Education increased its contributions to state legislators by 14 percent this election. The group has given $485,000 so far, according to campaign finance reports filed this week with the N.C. State Board of Elections. At this point in the last election cycle CHE had given $425,000. Click here to read more.
The News & Observer
October 13, 2008 ERIC FERRERI, Staff Writer CHAPEL HILL - UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Holden Thorp wants his university to solve the world's grandest challenges. But to reach this audacious goal, he offered a basic path. "We just need to take care of our people," Thorp said in a speech moments after his formal installation as UNC-CH's 10th chancellor. "If we do that, then the students' successes, the big ideas, the recognition, the grant dollars, and the solutions to society's greatest problems will take care of themselves." Click here to read more.
The News & Observer
October 9, 2008
Editorial
Less than a year after successfully finishing a $2.38 billion fundraising campaign, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is planning a $4 billion effort to further raise its endowment. It is a breathtaking figure, to be sure, and the timing -- in the midst of a national economic downturn -- is interesting, but not necessarily misplaced. Click here to read more.
No university has reached that target The News & Observer
Sunday, October 5, 2008 Eric Ferreri, Staff Writer
CHAPEL HILL - Ten months ago, UNC-Chapel Hill wrapped up a record $2.38 billion fundraising campaign with a thank you to donors. Now, plans are in motion to start hitting them up again. The next target: a stunning $4 billion, which would put the university in rare company. Only three universities have taken on campaigns that large, and UNC-CH will be the first public institution to do so. The campaign could start next year, according to a recent memo written by Matt Kupec, UNC-CH's vice chancellor for university advancement. Click here to read more.
The Chapel Hill News
September 30, 2008
By Bill Roper and Holden Thorp Horace Williams Airport occupies an extremely valuable piece of property owned by the university that’s at the heart of our plans for developing Carolina North, a new research and academic campus. ... Long term, we believe a new general aviation airport is important to the future of AHEC, the university and the economic success of Orange County. Submitted by Site Admin on Wed, 2008-10-01 21:31.
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UNC News Services
September 16, 2008 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s research grants and contracts totaled $678.2 million in fiscal 2008 – more than double the amount from a decade ago. This year’s total is up 11 percent over the record-setting $610 million received for research grants and contracts last year. More than half of the 2008 total – about $356 million – reflected a 13 percent gain in grants and contracts awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), at a time when the agency’s funding has grown stagnant. The NIH is traditionally the University’s largest source of research grants. Submitted by Site Admin on Tue, 2008-09-16 22:10.
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The Fayetteville Observer
Sept. 14, 2008 Charles Broadwell
We all should be rooting for Dr. Holden Thorp, the new chancellor at UNC-Chapel Hill. It’s an awesome job that he has, in taking the reins of the nation’s oldest public university. Holden Thorp grew up in Fayetteville and graduated from Terry Sanford High School and UNC. .... That’s where I think Holden Thorp brings an edge to the job. He knows North Carolina. He appreciates its mission, to be a leading undergraduate and research institution, and also to serve the greater good of the Tar Heel State. Click here to read more. Submitted by Site Admin on Tue, 2008-09-16 22:05.
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The Charlotte Observer
Sept. 13, 2008 The National Science Foundation is a respected organization that doesn't give out top academic honors lightly, so it's worth noting when two of North Carolina's state engineering schools are among five in the nation it named National Engineering Research Centers. The two are (drumroll, please) N.C. State University in Raleigh and N.C. A&T in Greensboro. The designation means those programs are tops in blending cutting-edge research with training and innovation.... N.C. taxpayers support their public university system at a level that is among the most generous in the nation. That has meant a system of higher education routinely singled out for excellence. Our universities are strategic assets, and this is another example of the payoff. Click here to read more.
UNC News Services
Thursday, September 11, 2008 Cancer, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s, stroke – biomedical researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will be able to make strides in understanding and treating all of these diseases and more because of a $260 million investment to enhance the University’s imaging capabilities. A new facility with the latest radiographic equipment will help UNC researchers better understand the exact events inside the body that lead to disease, and to track how new treatments work. Submitted by Site Admin on Thu, 2008-09-11 21:21.
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