Raise the floor: Low UNC system admission standards set up kids to fail

The Charlotte Observer
Monday, Oct. 15, 2007
EDITORIALS

Here's a pop quiz: Do North Carolina's public universities have minimum entrance standards for freshmen? If you said yes, you'd be only half right. Not all campuses are so discriminating. That means unprepared students waste their time and our tax dollars enrolling, then flunking out.

That's not fair to kids or taxpayers. A new proposal by the University of North Carolina Board of Governors sets minimum standards and raises them over five years. It's long overdue. Click here to read more....