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
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.
WRAL-TV
November 13, 2009 Chapel Hill — The University of North Carolina System president wants the General Assembly to reconsider a mandated tuition hike for all students in which the additional revenue would go to help with the state's budget woes. As part of its budget deliberations this summer, legislators increased tuition rates for the 2010-11 school year for the UNC System's 13 universities by the lesser of 8 percent or $200. That money is set to go into the state's General Fund. President Erskine Bowles wants state lawmakers, when they reconvene in May, to give tuition hikes back to the campuses. Click here to read more.
The New York Times
November 15, 2009
By Tamar Lewin When Holden Thorp, the chancellor of the University of North Carolina, was looking for ways to cut the university’s budget, he did what many executives in private industry do — hired a management consultant. The consultant, Bain & Company, came up with recommendations that it said could save the university more than $150 million a year. ... “Like any other large organization,” Mr. Thorp said, “we hire people, we buy stuff, we connect to the Internet, we build buildings and take care of our property, and we wanted Bain to look at how we could carry out those functions as efficiently as possible." Click here to read more.
The Herald-Sun
November 6, 2009
The influx of stimulus money is a striking reminder of the advantages this region has because of its powerhouse research universities, cornerstones of an increasingly knowledge-based economy. The flood of money has been concentrated. Over about the past six months, researchers at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have garnered nearly a quarter-billion dollars for more than 500 research projects. To put that in some context, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Congress passed last February -- the stimulus package -- earmarked $15 billion for scientific research. Our universities have, then, scored about $1 out of every $60 of that allocation. Click here to read more. Submitted by Site Admin on Fri, 2009-11-06 19:08.
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University officials confronted an extraordinarily difficult state budget
this year. But they are confident a study by Bain & Co. will equip the University to cope with more budget strains to come. UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Holden Thorp commissioned the Bain study with an eye toward making the University more efficient. The study identified multiple layers of management and found that the University’s administrative expenses have grown faster than its academic expenses. Submitted by Site Admin on Thu, 2009-11-05 19:28.
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The News & Observer
October 13, 2009
BY ERIC FERRERI - STAFF WRITER CHAPEL HILL (At UNC-Chapel Hill's University Day ceremony Monday,) featured speaker Gov. Beverly Perdue lauded the university, more than once suggesting that state government ought to take note of how UNC-CH operates. She specifically made reference to the project headed by Bain & Co., a consultant hired to analyze the university's administrative and financial structures and suggest cuts or streamlining. Said Perdue: "Leaders here have focused on how to make the university run more efficiently and effectively -- performing a broad study and putting it into action. And that's exactly what we must do across state government." Click here to read more. Submitted by Site Admin on Tue, 2009-10-13 15:21.
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The News & Observer
Editorial
October 9, 2009 Genetic research already has produced helpful results with regards to cancer treatment. It has, for example, broken down the different kinds of breast cancer, which obviously affects the kinds of treatments offered and their effectiveness. UNC-Chapel Hill is considered a leader in the field, which is why it will be getting one of the largest grants from federal stimulus money to continue research into how cancer grows and spreads. Click here to read more. Submitted by Site Admin on Fri, 2009-10-09 16:06.
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