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.
USA Today
May 18, 2008 The Bayh-Dole Act was enacted 27 years ago, but the ramifications persist to this day. The act lets universities patent and commercialize inventions that come from federally funded research. It has gradually turned universities into incubators for breakthroughs in technology and medicine. Stanford owns the patent on Google's Internet search technology, and last year, the university earned $48 million from 428 technologies licensed to companies. Texas Instruments was early to recognize the power of university research. The company has partnerships with Rice, Georgia Tech and the University of Illinois, among others, and with universities in India and China. CEO Rich Templeton, 49, spoke with USA TODAY management reporter Del Jones about the R&D coming from colleges. Click here to read more.
The (Durham) Herald-Sun May 12, 2008 In nominating Holden Thorp to the Board of Governors Thursday, UNC President Erskine Bowles said: "There is not a doubt in my mind that Holden Thorp is the right leader for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the right leader for today and the right leader for tomorrow." With that vote of confidence and with his own substantial accomplishments, we expect a chancellorship of distinction from Holden Thorp. Click here to read more. Submitted by Site Admin on Fri, 2008-05-16 19:14.
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The News & Observer May 10, 2008 CHAPEL HILL - Holden Thorp loves a puzzle. As a teenager, he won $500 in a regional Rubik's Cube tournament, which he promptly blew on records. As a young chemist a decade ago, it was DNA, on which he published extensively and has spun off technology leading to 19 issued or pending patents. Now 43 and UNC-Chapel Hill's next chancellor, Thorp has a new set of challenges. He will grapple with fundraising, a growing student body, the creation of a new campus, and pledges to keep the doors open to all qualified students, regardless of income. He'll probably work quickly. He solved that Rubik's Cube in about a minute. Click here for more.
The News & Observer April 28, 2008 Point of View: Mark Crowell Technology transfer successes emanating from North Carolina institutions abound. Food is safer, manufacturing processes are cleaner, diseases are prevented or treated, a device is available to combat stuttering, conversational Spanish is taught to health-care professionals in rural settings, and on and on -- all as a result of North Carolina university innovations connected with the market via the technology transfer process. Hundreds of new companies have been created, along with untold numbers of jobs, investments and other economic benefits. Click here to read more. Submitted by Site Admin on Tue, 2008-04-29 16:15.
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The News & Observer April 16, 2008 Eric Ferreri, Staff Writer University system officials say the ability of campuses to work together rather than compete is more important now than ever as money for higher education becomes increasingly tight. It is the central theme of a new policy in the works that will change the way public universities are granted new academic programs. In essence, it will ask individual campuses to check their competitive instincts at the door and look broadly at the state's needs. Click here for more. Submitted by Site Admin on Tue, 2008-04-22 19:20.
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The Herald-Sun
Mar 23, 2008
By James Moeser Last Tuesday, the university and the community celebrated the life of Eve Carson, the Carolina student body president and Board of Trustees member taken from us so suddenly and so violently at the age of only 22.... Her achievements are only part of the Eve we remember, and I would say not the most important part. ... In all of campus, there was only one Eve, incandescent and bubbling with intelligence and compassion. Eve lived her life in such a way as to become the very embodiment of what we call the Carolina Way. What is the Carolina Way? Eve and I liked to describe it as "excellence with a heart." Click here for more. Submitted by Site Admin on Wed, 2008-03-26 14:02.
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WUNC-FM Wednesday, March 19, 2008 Members of the UNC community gathered yesterday at the Dean Smith Center for a memorial to pay tribute to slain student body leader Eve Carson. Rose Hoban was there and filed this report. Click here to listen.
The Chapel Hill News March 9, 2008 Every young person's death, every life cut short too soon, leaves a terrible emptiness, a void where a future should have been. In this case, that void seems especially vast, because Eve Carson's future was almost limitless. She achieved more and touched more lives in 22 years than many of us manage in much longer lifetimes. What she might have accomplished with a full complement of years we can only imagine. No one who knew her -- and everyone on campus, it seems, knew her -- doubts that it would have been remarkable. Click here to read more.... Submitted by Site Admin on Tue, 2008-03-11 15:43.
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By Jeffry Scott, Drew Jubera
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution March 9, 2008
She was an A-plus student and class president whose biology and chemistry textbooks had hundreds of post-it notes reminding her to ask more questions and read something else because there was so much more she couldn't wait to figure out.... Most guys had a crush on Eve Marie Carson. Most girls thought of her as a sister. The world expected the world of Eve Carson. Click here to read more.... Submitted by Site Admin on Tue, 2008-03-11 15:36.
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The Daily Tar Heel March 7, 2008 A dark cloud settled over Chapel Hill on Wednesday morning before any of us knew it. Student Body President Eve Carson, ever a radiant, glowing presence on campus, was tragically taken from us. Without a doubt, UNC will miss her dearly. Click here to read more....
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