Obama, and the cost of college
If only President Barack Obama were here today to talk about a real solution to the cost of a college education.
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If only President Barack Obama were here today to talk about a real solution to the cost of a college education.
Stanford University offered Introduction to Artificial Intelligence online for free last fall, with graded assignments and statements of accomplishment on offer for non-Stanford students.
David Baron is creating a couch. “It’s going to be 100 percent biodegradable — technically sustainable, in a way that furniture, when it’s called sustainable, is not actually,” he tells me proudly.
“The struggle continues!” That’s what Terri Houston had to say to anyone who might suggest that now that America has a black president, minorities have arrived at an even playing field.
If you’ve wandered by South Building without a clue about what goes on inside, Bruce Carney would forgive you.
What if — these words defined Saturday’s TEDxUNC conference.
Remember the $800 in-state tuition increase announced last fall, with thousands more in increases planned over the next five years?
There’s no doubt that UNC has a history of activism. Last year, we celebrated 150 years of the Campus Y, and in October, a commemorative plaque was laid for the fight against the 1963 Speaker Ban Law.
This Saturday would have been Eve Carson’s 26th birthday. Though the community will honor her at the memorial 5k in her name, almost all the students with whom she shared this campus have left.
As our campus contemplates massive tuition increases to fill holes in the University budget, I’m drawn to the words of Charles Kuralt, from the UNC Bicentennial:
Meet Lee Storrow: Unlike the other candidates in the Chapel Hill Town Council election, Storrow is a young UNC graduate, and he’s gay.
According to UCLA’s Higher Education Research Institute, more than half of all freshmen nationally say that a key reason they picked their college was because “graduates get good jobs.”
A whole lot of UNC students care about public service. The Buckley Public Service scholars program has thousands of participants, and there are more than 150 student groups focused on service in the local and global community.
Like most outdated policies, UNC’s restriction of all on-campus housing to same-gender roommates made sense, once.
Should Troy Davis have been executed?
From Carolina Counts to Carolina Creates. This time I’m looking at a student-led initiative that makes worthy (albeit incomplete) strides toward a more connected campus.
Remember Carolina Counts?
In a recent New York Times column on “decision fatigue,” writer John Tierney contends that we all have finite amounts of willpower, and that our decision-making abilities get worse throughout a day of choices.
My fellow students, spare a thought for your professors.
This campus revolves around its youngest members — the freshmen — and their assimilation on campus. But the rest of us should keep exploring, even if we’re not expected to venture away from what we know.