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. We also welcome junior members at reduced rates: $1,000 a year for members age 30 to 39, and $500 a year for those under 30. To become a member, click here or call 919-510-9240. To sign up for e-mail updates, click here.
The News & Observer
January 24, 2010
By Eric Ferreri - Staff Writer North Carolina's three largest academic medical centers, at Duke, UNC-Chapel Hill and Wake Forest University, are investing a collective $700 million to upgrade cancer facilities.... But does North Carolina really need all this cancer care? Experts say there's more than enough disease to go around. State health officials project a 14 percent increase in new cancer cases in North Carolina from 2006 to 2011 and a 21 percent jump in new cancer cases in the Triangle during that same time.... Submitted by Site Admin on Mon, 2010-01-25 20:11.
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The News & Observer
January 19, 2008
By Jay Price
Staff Writer They will remain bitter rivals on basketball courts and ball fields, but in labs, classrooms, business offices - and now boardrooms - N.C. State University and UNC-Chapel Hill are becoming stronger allies. In a watershed moment for the growing alliance, the trustees of the two largest state universities will hold a joint meeting tonight for the first time in recent memory. NCSU trustees chairman Lawrence Davenport said that two days after being appointed last summer he called his counterpart at UNC-CH, Bob Winston, to broach the idea. It seemed obvious, he said, given the growing ties between faculty, staff and students. Click here to read more. Submitted by Site Admin on Tue, 2010-01-19 19:37.
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The News & Observer
January 10, 2010 Sometimes you get what you pay for. And sometimes you get a bit more. That seems to be the explanation for UNC-Chapel Hill's designation, once again this year, as Kiplinger.com's Best Value in Public Colleges. Kiplinger's concludes that UNC-Chapel Hill's combination of academic quality and relative affordability is tops in U.S. public higher education (N.C. State University, also commendably, ranks 10th). According to Kiplinger's, at UNC-Chapel Hill - which it terms "an academic superstar that competes with the Ivies" - the annual in-state cost for students with financial need "comes to a dirt-cheap $5,912."... What's indisputable is that strong support from the state and its taxpayers enables Chapel Hill to offer high quality at a relatively low cost to those students who gain admission.... North Carolina can be proud of its university system, and should continue to support it well even - perhaps especially - in hard times. Click here to read more.
UNC News Release
January 4, 2010 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill remains the number one overall best value in U.S. public higher education, according to Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine. Carolina has ranked first on the magazine’s list of schools that “deliver strong academics at affordable prices” since 1998 when Kiplinger’s began its analysis. The newest list appears in the February issue, which hits newsstands Tuesday, Jan. 5. Kiplinger’s editors say their top 100 public campuses offer the nation’s best combination of academics and affordability. The universities of Florida, Virginia and the College of William and Mary ranked second, third and fourth, respectively, followed by Binghamton University, the universities of Georgia, Washington, Maryland (College Park), and the State University of New York (SUNY) Geneseo. Other UNC system schools were N.C. State, 10th; Appalachian State, 22nd; UNC-Wilmington, 27th; UNC-Asheville, 44th; and UNC School of the Arts, 61st. Submitted by Site Admin on Mon, 2010-01-04 19:43.
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The News & Observer
December 21, 2009
By Eric Ferreri
A global drug maker has donated $2 million to the N.C. Cancer Hospital. The gift comes from Sanofi-Aventis, a Paris-based drug manufacturer that has long funded cancer-related initiatives at UNC Chapel Hill. The N.C. Cancer Hospital is a new facility on the UNC-CH campus, a massive expansion of its clinical cancer operations. The $2 million will go into the hospital's endowment, to be used for new clinical programs, research and patient and family support services. "At a time of financial stress when other states are pulling back on health care, North Carolina is stepping up, and so is private industry," said UNC-CH Chancellor Holden Thorp Monday during a brief ribbon-cutting ceremony at the hospital. Click here to read more. Submitted by Site Admin on Tue, 2009-12-22 15:02.
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The Daily Tar Heel
Friday, November 20, 2009
By Ross Maloney
Staff Writer With the departure of N.C. Senate Majority Leader Sen. Tony Rand, D-Cumberland, a vacancy will open in the N.C. General Assembly that could have a significant impact on the UNC system. Rand, who has served in the legislature since 1982, has repeatedly made the UNC system a top priority.... "Tony Rand has had a greater influence on UNC-Chapel Hill than anyone who has ever lived, outside of William Davie and the founders who created the school," (Senate leader Marc) Basnight said.... Basnight said he sees no immediate substitute for what Rand has meant to the UNC system. "The best Carolina ever gave is found in Tony Rand and we have no replacement. None." Click here to read more.
The News & Observer
November 30, 2009
Folks who disparage today's young people haven't read a lot of Rhodes Scholarship citations.... This year North Carolina can claim three, one whose home is here but who studies at MIT and two students at UNC-Chapel Hill. ... The UNC students are Elizabeth Blair "Libby" Longino and Henry Lawlor Spelman. It's worth noting, because debate arises from time to time over how many out-of-state students UNC should admit, that Longino is from Texas and Spelman from Pennsylvania. It's a big plus for the university that they came here (on Morehead-Cain scholarships). It's also notable that this year marks the sixth time that Chapel Hill has had two Rhodes winners in the same year, and that in the past five years only Harvard, Yale, Stanford and Princeton have turned out more winners. Click here for more.
The New York Times
November 20, 2009
By TAMAR LEWIN BERKELEY, Calif. — As the University of California struggles to absorb its sharpest drop in state financing since the Great Depression, every professor, administrator and clerical worker has been put on furlough amounting to an average pay cut of 8 percent. In chemistry laboratories that have produced Nobel Prize-winning research, wastebaskets are stuffed to the brim on the new reduced cleaning schedule. Many students are frozen out of required classes as course sections are trimmed. And on Thursday, to top it all off, the Board of Regents voted to increase undergraduate fees — the equivalent of tuition — by 32 percent next fall, to more than $10,000.... Among students and faculty alike, there is a pervasive sense that the increases and the deep budget cuts are pushing the university into decline. Click here to read more. Submitted by Site Admin on Mon, 2009-11-23 19:01.
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The News & Observer
November 23, 2009
FROM STAFF REPORTS
Three seniors with North Carolina connections were selected as 2010 Rhodes Scholars on Saturday. The scholarships, worth about $50,000 each, fund two to four years of study at Oxford University in England. The three students are among 32 from the United States picked for the honor this year. Two are students at UNC-Chapel Hill; one attends the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Elizabeth Blair "Libby" Longino, of Dallas, Texas, and Henry Lawlor Spelman, of Swarthmore, Pa., both 22, have each been attending UNC on Morehead-Cain scholarships. Longino plans to use her scholarship to study forced migration. Spelman plans to study Greek and Latin languages and literature while at Oxford. Click here to read more. Submitted by Site Admin on Mon, 2009-11-23 15:32.
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The News & Observer
November 20, 2009
By Eric Ferreri -- Staff Writer CHAPEL HILL -- Students at UNC-Chapel Hill will continue to pay far less for their educations than peers at most of the campus's competitors under a tuition plan approved Thursday. And that, some say, is a problem.... Under the UNC-CH plan trustees approved Thursday, in-state undergraduate students would pay nearly $300 more next year for a total of $5,921.42 in tuition and fees. Out-of-state undergrads would pay an increase of about $1,223 for a total of $24,736.42.... Now, some campus leaders say the increase, which is moderate when compared to UNC-CH's peers in other states, won't produce enough revenue to compete with those same institutions for the best faculty. Click here to read more.
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