Graduation rates for North Carolina’s public universities must improve. There’s almost total consensus on that point, especially with tuition rising steadily in recent years.  Though North Carolina’s public universities have an overall graduation rate nearly 10 percentage points above the national average, there’s wide variance between schools. That’s led to calls from pundits and policymakers… READ MORE

North Carolina, its institutions of higher education and its communities have just seen their brand tarnished. HB2, the new law that requires LGBT folks to use the restroom of the sex on their birth certificate1 has been an enormous, costly embarrassment2 for a state that has real issues to confront. UNC System President Margaret Spellings… READ MORE