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.
Editorial
The Charlotte Observer
February 14, 2010
Charlotte's Erskine Bowles, who made millions in business and practically ran the country as chief of staff for President Bill Clinton, on Friday said that leading the UNC system "will always be the greatest privilege of my professional life." ... He was the right person for the job, steeped in the progressive traditions of Terry Sanford and Bill Friday. He is a savvy businessman who has the respect of conservatives, moderates and liberals, and who clearly understands the nexus between a sound education, a thriving business atmosphere and a strong economic future. His work ethic is legendary, his organization impeccable. He has served during difficult economic times, and brought his business acumen to the university's administration. He effectively walked the balance beam of ordering campuses and the administration to trim their budgets while also fighting to protect the system from too-deep cuts. Click here to read more. Submitted by Site Admin on Sun, 2010-02-14 13:35.
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Editorial
(Greensboro) News & Record
February 13, 2010 Erskine Bowles has been UNC president for only four years, and, in an announcement on Friday, said that was enough. The 64-year-old Greensboro native will retire as UNC's fourth president by the end of 2010 -- or until the Board of Governors finds his replacement. That won't be easy. A former White House chief of staff for President Bill Clinton, Bowles took the UNC job largely at the urging of state Republicans, who admired his tenacity, his business savvy and his ability to work across the aisle to get things done. He did not disappoint. On his watch, the UNC system has become more focused, accountable and forward-thinking. Click here to read more.
The News & Observer
February 13, 2010
BY JAY PRICE AND ERIC FERRERI - Staff Writers
CHAPEL HILL -- In one breath, UNC system president Erskine Bowles announced Friday that he plans to step down at the end of the year. In the next breath, Bowles shifted back to what became his hallmark in four years of long workdays: getting more done. "Believe you me, I know our work is far from finished, and I promise you I'm going to continue to work, to drive, to push just as hard in the months ahead as I have over the past four years," Bowles told the UNC Board of Governors. Click here to read more.
The News & Observer
February 12, 2010
BY ERIC FERRERI - Staff Writer
CHAPEL HILL -- UNC system leaders want to charge students less than the General Assembly has them scheduled to pay next year. Last year, state lawmakers mandated that tuition and fees would rise $200 or 8 percent, whichever is lower, in 2010-11. The revenue from that rate increase would go to the state's general fund, a sticking point for university leaders who want it to stay on campus. Now, university system leaders are readying an alternative that would bring in less money but let campuses keep it. Under that plan, half of all revenue raised through tuition increases would be used for need-based financial aid.... "Not only do we lose that money, but half of it was going to need-based aid," UNC President Erskine Bowles said Thursday during a meeting of the UNC system's Board of Governors. Click here to read more. Submitted by Site Admin on Fri, 2010-02-12 16:08.
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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.
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