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North Carolina’s chief executive calls for increases in spending on education, which comprises 58 percent of the governor’s budget.

Although the recent “Emerging Issues” conference at North Carolina State University missed the boat on the big issues, there were a few bright spots that education leaders ought to know about.

In a conference dubbed as “Politics of Inclusion: Higher Education at a Crossroads,” one thing was obvious – the event was highly scripted.

It looks like Erskine Bowles could be the next Larry Summers.

Appalachian State University repeals a harassment policy after the Pope Center and FIRE reported it as unconstitutional.

Muslims at UNC decry printing of “insensitive” cartoons.

A new study that compares funding of Colorado and North Carolina state university systems shows that more money isn’t always the best thing.

Colleges and universities are not working to establish intellectual diversity according to a new study.

Filmmaker Maloney attacks collegiate bias from behind the lens in “Brainwashing 101 and 201.”

Ohio University Economics professor and author Richard K. Vedder will be the keynote speaker at the annual John W. Pope Center Higher Education Conference, to be held Saturday, Oct. 8, at the Hilton Hotel in Research Triangle Park.

It’s not just at institutions like the Santa Clara University, UNC-Chapel Hill, and others that have a large number of professors who subscribe to liberal ideology. Research performed by Dan Klein and others indicates there is a large bias against conservative and libertarian professors in academia today.

For decades, higher education institutions have utilized racial preferences and quota programs, euphemistically called “affirmative action” in their admission policies. At least one member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights would like to see that practice come to an end.