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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 Oct. 8, 2007 Jane Stancill, Staff Writer
CHAPEL HILL - A new leader will take over UNC-Chapel Hill in 2008, just in time to manage a growth spurt, recruit 2,000 faculty members in eight years and tangle with the town over the development of a new research campus called Carolina North. The successor to retiring Chancellor James Moeser will need management skills, political savvy and respect for the revered traditions of academia. It's a high-profile job that draws scrutiny from students, parents, professors, politicians, sports fans and more than 250,000 living alumni, not to mention millions of state taxpayers.... This month, a 19-member committee will start the task of finding someone with the ability to run a complex university with an annual budget of $2.4 billion, raise money and be the public face of a treasured state asset. The national search is expected to take months. Click here to read more.... Submitted by Site Admin on Tue, 2007-10-09 21:05.
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In his State of the University Address on Sept. 26, James Moeser announced his plans to step down in June 2008 as Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In his address, Moeser outlined both the University's accomplishments during his seven years as chancellor and four major challenges that the University and his successor will face. The following are excerpts from Moeser's speech. For a full text or video excerpts, click on this link: http://www.unc.edu/chan/special/ Submitted by Site Admin on Tue, 2007-10-09 20:06.
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The Daily Tar Heel
By: Kevin Kiley, Staff Writer 9/14/07
Every year UNC competes to retain faculty members who receive offers from other universities.... It's a fight that administrators see as a major challenge but an area where the University has made slow, yet noticeable progress. In 2003 UNC's retention rate was 40 percent. In 2006 it rose to 52 percent. It increased again this year to 72 percent - the highest level in five years. Officials attribute the rise in retention rates in part to faculty salary increases approved by the General Assembly in the past two years. Click here to read more...
Chancellor James Moeser of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill hopes to change what he calls UNC's "ivory tower" image. Click here to read more...
By CASH MICHAELS
The Wilmington Journal
Originally posted 8/20/2007 African-American women are 39 percent more likely to die of breast cancer than white women, even when both are diagnosed with the same stage of the deadly disease, researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health in New York reported this week. Why such a pronounced racial disparity in breast cancer mortality rates exists is not clear, but solving that medical mystery will certainly be one of the many challenges researchers at the UNC –Chapel Hill School of Medicine and the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center will undertake in the coming years. Click here to read more.... Submitted by Site Admin on Tue, 2007-08-21 19:01.
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The Associated Press
August 15, 2007
N.C. lawmakers commit $50M to cancer
By GARY D. ROBERTSON
RALEIGH, N.C.
They are names that inspire hope. Johns Hopkins. Sloan-Kettering. M.D. Anderson. To that list of world-renowned cancer care hospitals, North Carolina lawmakers are committed to adding one more: Lineberger.
Before leaving Raleigh for the year, the Legislature committed the state to investing $50 million annually -- in perpetuity -- in the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Click here to read more....
Submitted by Site Admin on Mon, 2007-08-20 20:41.
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Opinion
Thursday, August 9, 2007
August 8, 2007 EDITORIALS Help with collegeMore state spending on scholarships is a good investment North Carolina will spend an additional $27 million this year on need-based scholarships at state universities. That's not the flashiest (or the biggest) item in the state's newly approved biennial budget, but it's one of the most important. Click here to read more... Submitted by Site Admin on Wed, 2007-08-08 20:50.
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The News & Observer August 7, 2007 Letter: Cancer center kudos With the recently passed state budget, our state's leaders have made a remarkable investment, one that will no doubt touch every life in North Carolina. By establishing the University Cancer Research Fund, North Carolina is now one of only a few states with a dedicated comprehensive cancer research fund. This transformative investment of $25 million this year, growing to $50 million per year beginning in 2009, will help us become the nation's best public cancer center. Click here to read more...
The News & Observer August 5, 2007 By Jane Stancill, Staff Writer
RALEIGH - North Carolina has long been generous in its financial support of universities, and this year is no different. But another thing stands out in the new state budget approved by the legislature: big bucks for research. The centerpiece is a cancer research fund at UNC-Chapel Hill -- $25 million in the coming year, growing to $50 million a year starting in 2009. UNC leaders call it a spectacular gift that will catapult the school to the nation's top public cancer research center. Click here to read more....
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