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 $2,000 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
January 14, 2011
BY ERIC FERRERI - STAFF WRITER
CHAPEL HILL -- Public universities have put plans together to deal with budget cuts of 5 percent and 10 percent for 2011-12, and data presented Thursday suggest large job losses. A 10 percent cut could lead to 2,000 job cuts across the UNC system, including 1,000 faculty members, according to data discussed by the UNC system's Board of Governors. A 5 percent cut would eliminate 900 positions, including 400 faculty members. Systemwide, UNC has about 47,000 employees. The cuts would help the state close a budget gap estimated now at more than $3.5 billion. Submitted by Site Admin on Fri, 2011-01-14 23:02.
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The News & Observer
January 10, 2011
No doubt about it, Kiplinger's Personal Finance likes UNC-Chapel Hill. For the tenth straight year the consumer magazine ranks the campus No. 1 in the nation for educational value. It's noteworthy, though, that other UNC system schools fare well too - N.C. State is 15th nationally, UNC Wilmington 27th and Appalachian State 35th. The UNC School of the Arts and UNC Asheville also rate in the top 58. That speaks to a deep commitment by the state and its taxpayers to solid, reasonably priced educational opportunities across North Carolina. Hard times now threaten that historic accomplishment. The legislature, in making its budget choices, must not forget overall value. Click here to read more. Submitted by Site Admin on Mon, 2011-01-10 15:37.
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The Charlotte Observer
December 18, 2010
By Jack Betts
Associate Editor
After five years as president of the University of North Carolina's 17-campus system, Erskine Bowles steps down at the end of this month. He discussed his work at UNC in a telephone interview Thursday, calling UNC "a great university" ... and predicting that incoming system president Tom Ross would be the system's best chief executive since Bill Friday. Here's an edited transcript of that discussion: Submitted by Site Admin on Mon, 2010-12-20 21:03.
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WUNC-FM
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
By Laura Leslie
State lawmakers are looking for spending cuts to offset a $3.2 billion shortfall next year. But higher education officials say a proposal to cut their budgets 10% would mean fewer seats, fewer classrooms, and higher tuition. UNC Chief Operating Officer Jeff Davies says universities already sustained huge cuts in this year’s budget. He says schools would have to raise tuition 6.5% just to keep their doors open. Submitted by Site Admin on Thu, 2010-12-09 15:34.
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The News & Observer
November 29, 2010 For all the talk of sports (and sports scandals), high tuition and tight budgets, the Triangle's colleges and universities are primarily places where scholarship, service and students flourish. In many years, recognition comes in the form of Rhodes Scholarship winners at local campuses, and this year is no exception. UNC-Chapel Hill has two Rhodes Scholars (Laurence Deschamps-Laporte, from Quebec, and Steven Paul Shorkey Jr. of Charlotte)and Duke one (Jared Dunnmon of Cincinnati).... It's particularly noteworthy that this is UNC's third year in a row with two scholars, and that over many years the campus has produced more Rhodes winners than any other U.S. public university. Click here to read more.
The News & Observer
November 22, 2010
By DAVID RANII - STAFF WRITER
Three seniors at local universities - two at UNC-Chapel Hill and one at Duke - have been awarded prestigious Rhodes scholarships. The awards announced Sunday mark the second consecutive year that a pair of UNC-CH students were named Rhodes scholars. Both of this year's Rhodes scholars have been attending UNC-CH on Morehead-Cain scholarships, full four-year scholarships. The local university winners are UNC-CH students Stephen Paul Shorkey Jr. of Charlotte and Laurence Deschamps-Laporte of Quebec, Canada, and Duke student Jared Dunnmon of Cincinnati. The Rhodes scholarships, which are more than a century old, take care of all expenses for two or three years of study at Oxford University in England. Click here to read more. Submitted by Site Admin on Mon, 2010-11-22 16:35.
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WCHL 1360
November 13, 2010
By Jonathan Michels
It might seem like a paradox that a public university would have to lobby the government that funds it, but many universities, including UNC, do just that. According to opensecrets.org, UNC spent two hundred thousand dollars to lobby the federal government last year.... Each year, private corporations and even public institutions like UNC spend money to hire licensed lobbyists just like Regan. They arm themselves with information that they can use to push for or against federal policies that will directly affect UNC. These could be anything from funding a research project to increases in student financial aid. Click here to read more.
The News & Observer
November 19, 2010
By ERIC FERRERI - STAFF WRITER CHAPEL HILL -- There was no uprising Thursday when UNC-Chapel Hill trustees raised tuition. No gaggle of sign-toting protesters complaining about a more costly education. No audible groans or rolling of eyes. Just Student Body President Hogan Medlin's lone "no" vote on a plan that will raise tuition 6.5 percent next year.... Submitted by Site Admin on Fri, 2010-11-19 10:52.
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The Charlotte Observer
November 8, 2010
Even as UNC President Erskine Bowles winds up his tenure as president of the University of North Carolina system, he frames the debate for the next round of significant university and state budget changes by uttering the un-utterable: the possibility of closing a campus in the UNC system. That's how bad the upcoming budget shortfall might be, and that's how deep policymakers must look as they devise ways to balance a state budget that many believe will be $3.5 billion or so short in 2011. Not many legislators or members of the UNC Board of Governors want to close any of the 16 public university campuses, but it could become a preferable alternative to trimming each campus budget if the target is to cut 20 percent of the state's higher education expenditures next year. Click here to read more. Submitted by Site Admin on Mon, 2010-11-08 19:06.
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The News & Observer
November 5, 2010
BY ERIC FERRERI - STAFF WRITER
CHAPEL HILL -- UNC system President Erskine Bowles painted a bleak picture Thursday of the UNC system if the more severe of two budget-cutting scenarios is necessary. As many as 1,700 jobs could be lost, he said. Bowles even suggested that if North Carolina's economic health doesn't improve, the UNC system may eventually have to close a campus - which he called a smarter strategic and fiscal move than simply chipping away at every university in the system. "If we keep having cuts, cuts, cuts, we'll have to look at eliminating schools, campuses," Bowles told members of the UNC system's Board of Governors. "If it went on for several years, that would be the smart decision. The unfortunate, smart decision." Submitted by Site Admin on Fri, 2010-11-05 10:27.
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