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
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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State legislators confronted the realities of a slowing economy during their 2008 session. But despite tightening revenues, the General Assembly made commitments to capital projects that are key to the future of UNC-Chapel Hill and other state universities. “We’re trying to build our universities. We’re trying to build our infrastructure. We’re trying to build the things that will continue to make our state great,” Sen. David Hoyle, D-Gaston, declared during a budget debate. “We’re doing the right thing.” Submitted by Site Admin on Sat, 2008-07-19 22:14.
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The Charlotte Observer May 25, 2008 If warm and fuzzy is your idea of the quintessential college trustee, you might not think of the late oil magnate Walter Royal Davis of Chapel Hill. But Walter Royal Davis was also among the most generous benefactors of ordinary folks trying to get through college.... News stories this week have recounted how he sent more than 1,300 N.C. and Texas students through colleges, universities and nursing schools. Click here to read more.
The News & Observer May 22, 2008 Sometimes they knew, and sometimes they didn't, these people Walter Royal Davis treated to everything from ice cream to college educations. He was a big man who liked to live big, to give big. One fellow trustee from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill -- Davis served on the board for 16 years -- recalled a day in 1999 when trustees heard an appeal to help victims of Hurricane Floyd. Davis, who didn't see well, asked this board member to write his check for a donation. "Make it for a hundred," Davis said. "A hundred dollars?" the trustee asked. "No," Davis said. "A hundred thousand." Davis died Monday in Chapel Hill at the age of 88. Click here to read more. Submitted by Site Admin on Thu, 2008-05-22 15:40.
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