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 Herald-Sun February 11, 2008 Everyone wants good value for their dollar, and North Carolina's state universities provide it. UNC Chapel Hill is consistently recognized as one of the best bargains in the nation for higher education, particularly for in-state students. We were pleased to learn that N.C. Central and UNC Chapel Hill will remain good bargains, because tuition will remain steady at both schools next year.... At Chapel Hill, in-state, undergraduate tuition in 2008-2009 will be the same as it is in the current school year, $3,705. General fees will increase by $51.69, to $1,342.49.... Compared with other private and public institutions, those rates can be seen as a bargain. Click here to read more. Submitted by Site Admin on Mon, 2008-02-11 20:59.
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BY DANIEL GOLDBERG : The Herald-Sun
February 8, 2008 CHAPEL HILL -- Homegrown UNC Chapel Hill students do have something to celebrate this week. In-state undergraduate students in Chapel Hill will not see an increase in tuition during 2008-09, thanks largely to generous funding from the N.C. General Assembly last summer. UNC schools cannot raise tuition by more than 6.5 percent per academic year according to a four-year plan for tuition and fees adopted by the BOG. That factor decreases depending upon how much each school receives from the Legislature. Click here for full story. Submitted by Site Admin on Mon, 2008-02-11 15:44.
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The News & Observer February 8, 2008 Jane Stancill, Staff Writer
CHAPEL HILL - North Carolina students attending UNC system campuses could get a break on tuition increases in the 2008-09 academic year, mainly because of significantly higher appropriations from the legislature last year. Overall tuition and fees for North Carolina undergraduates are expected to rise 2.8 percent at N.C. State, 2.4 percent at N.C. Central and 1 percent at UNC-Chapel Hill. UNC President Erskine Bowles pointed out that the proposed increases are below inflation. "That can only happen because we have a very generous legislature and we're working to control costs," Bowles said. Click here for full story. Submitted by Site Admin on Mon, 2008-02-11 15:31.
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The Herald-Sun Jan. 29, 2008 It's a number so big it's almost difficult to comprehend. It's $2.38 billion, and it's the amount of money the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill just finished raising.... There's no mistaking that all the money raised makes Carolina better in significant ways. The money creates 208 new endowed professorships; it creates 577 new scholarships for students and 196 new fellowships. Nearly $600 million of the total raised will go for research and nearly $200 million will be dedicated to improved facilities at the university. Click here for full story.
The Herald-Sun Jan. 27, 2008 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has just completed one of the more impressive fundraising efforts in higher education. Over the past eight years, the university has raised $2.38 billion, the fifth largest amount ever in higher education. The total exceeds the original $1.8 billion goal by $580 million. It is an astonishing accomplishment, and if university chancellors are graded these days by how much money they raise, then Chancellor James Moeser gets an A-plus. Click here to read more.
Carolina First supports 773 scholars and 208 endowed professorships The News & Observer Jan. 24, 2008 Jane Stancill, Staff Writer
CHAPEL HILL -- UNC-Chapel Hill has wrapped up its eight-year fundraising campaign, reeling in $2.38 billion in donations, the university said Wednesday. The Carolina First campaign is the fifth-largest completed fundraising drive by a U.S. university, slightly surpassing Duke University's $2.36 billion campaign, which ended in 2003. Click here to read more. Submitted by Site Admin on Wed, 2008-01-30 01:21.
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CHAPEL HILL (Jan. 24, 2008) -- Fred Eshelman, chief executive officer and founder of Wilmington-based PPD Inc., has pledged $9 million to support cancer research at the School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The board of North Carolina’s University Cancer Research Fund matched the gift, generating a total investment of $18 million. The funds will support the work of Carolina School of Pharmacy and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers whose work focuses on genetics, individualized cancer therapy, drug discovery and drug delivery. Submitted by Site Admin on Wed, 2008-01-30 01:13.
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The Chapel Hill News Jan. 20, 2008 By Etta Pisano CHAPEL HILL -- I am one of your neighbors and I need Carolina North to happen. Recently, I founded a company, NextRay Inc., which grew out of my breast-cancer imaging research at UNC. We developed a novel way to use X-rays to make medical images at a significantly lower patient dose than current technology allows. The initial work for this discovery took place in my lab. The work ahead, to develop and build a series of commercial products suitable for FDA approval, can be done faster, better and cheaper by a small company with the involvement of scientists, engineers, accountants, business executives, regulatory experts, lawyers and investors. There simply is not room for these sorts of entrepreneurial ventures on our already crowded campus. Click here for full story.
CHAPEL HILL (Jan. 22, 2008) -- The University of North Carolina’s two medical schools and their cancer centers have signed a memorandum of understanding that creates a partnership to advance cancer research and bring leading-edge treatment to North Carolinians. Officials at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine and its Leo W. Jenkins Cancer Center, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Medicine and its Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the UNC system signed a memorandum of understanding in December outlining basic aspects of an arrangement where they will work together to improve cancer care for North Carolinians and further research into the state’s leading cause of death. Submitted by Site Admin on Wed, 2008-01-30 00:52.
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UNC News Release CHAPEL HILL (Jan. 7, 2008) – The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is the best value in American public higher education, according to Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine. It is the University’s seventh consecutive No. 1 ranking since the magazine started publishing its periodic analysis in 1998. Kiplinger's February issue, which hits newsstands Tuesday (Jan. 8), examined data from 500 public four-year colleges and universities to identify the top 100 schools “based on outstanding academic quality plus an affordable price tag.” Submitted by Site Admin on Wed, 2008-01-09 16:24.
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