UNC announces free tuition for some in-state students
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The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill announced that it would be providing free tuition and fees to students from North Carolina families making less than $80,000 a year.
Free tuition will be offered beginning with the incoming 2024 undergraduate class.
The announcement comes a week after the U.S. Supreme Court set new limits on affirmative action , a policy in which universities took into consideration a student's race or ethnicity during the admissions process. The policy was part of an effort to diversify college campuses .
The Supreme Court found that Harvard University and UNC violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment through their race-conscious admissions programs. The two universities had been sued by a conservative group called Students for Fair Admissions alleging the universities intentionally discriminated against Asian American applications.
UNC said the decision keeping universities from being able to consider race while making admissions decisions is a "fundamental change" in the law that governs the admissions process for UNC and thousands of other universities.
"Our responsibility to comply with the law does not mean we will abandon our fundamental values as a university. We are and will remain passionately public, and we will ensure that every student who earns admission to Carolina can come here and thrive. Our University’s commitment to access and affordability and supporting a culture of belonging for everyone does not change with last week’s ruling," UNC Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz said in a statement.
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A good start.
Good for them. Give people a chance.
Agreed.
"We want to make sure students know financial constraints should not stand in the way of their dreams," Guskiewicz said.
Hopefully that will include poor White people also.
With the Carolina Covenant, it shouldn't be a problem. The program has been in existence in 2004.
funny, the article didn't mention the color of the students eligible. why would that first occur to you?
Because of all the fuss about Black people that's been in the news lately
You do realize that blacks are not the only minority, don't you? In fact, one of the demographics that benefited the most from AA is white women.
yeah, that must be the reason...
It was weird to hear about Black People imploding on the Trident submergible.
That was the story "that's been in the news lately".
Here's a story that was published yesterday:
Here are all the signs that the imploded Titanic sub was doomed
OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush ignored a flood of hair-raising red flags about the company’s Titan submersible in the years leading up to its doomed Titanic voyage last month.
During the ill-fated June 18 dive to the 1912 wreckage of the famed ship, the Titan imploded, killing Rush, who was piloting the vessel, along with the other four passengers: French Titanic expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet, 77; British billionaire Hamish Harding, 58; prominent Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood, 48; and his 19-year-old son, Suleman Dawood.
But countless times before the voyage, Rush brushed aside or downplayed concerns from passengers, staff and colleagues about the Titan’s safety and construction.
Testing concerns
David Lochridge, OceanGate’s former director of marine operations, said that he found “a lack of non-destructive testing performed on the hull of the Titan,” and when he raised his concerns, he was fired in 2018, according to a lawsuit .
Following the Lochridge blow-up, the Marine Technology Society sent a letter on to OceanGate, warning that its experimental designs and refusal to follow industry-accepted safety protocols could lead to “catastrophic” results .
Will Kohnen, the chairman of the organization, told the New York Times that Rush called him afterward to complain that industry regulations were undermining his company’s work.
‘MacGyver-y jerry-rigged-ness’
Several others were additionally wary of the fact that the Titan sub had “elements of MacGyver-y jerry-rigged-ness,” as CBS reporter David Pogue told Rush in a 2022 broadcast .
The seemingly on-the-fly construction that caught past passengers’ attention included the Playstation controller used to steer the sub — and the fact that its buoyancy was maintained via rusty construction pipes resting on shelves on its side.
The flimsy construction caused Chris Brown, 61, a multimillionaire thrill-seeker who signed up for the doomed voyage with his friend Harding, to pull out of the trip .
“Eventually I emailed them and said, ‘I’m no longer able to go on this thing,’” Brown told the Sun, fearing OceanGate was “cutting too many corners.”
Hopefully we'll see more schools follow NC lead in this.
I'm an alumnus of UNC Chapel Hill.
I think this is a wonderful idea.
Gotta agree as long as the selection process is a fair one and not tilted by race, religion or gender.
Free enterprise at work if that’s the case …..
Careful with that gender thing - Cali has so many genders that even Webster won't name or define them all.
At the time of contact with Europeans, NA tribes recognized three to five genders. The first thing the Euros did was to do everything they could to destroy this system used by the tribes. My tribe the Anishinaabe recognizes five genders and (all tribes) are once again recognizing the original way. We don't waste a lot of time on the BS you see going on in the States now regarding LGBT. They are known to us as niizh manidoo or Two Spirit.
I don't know about NC Chapel Hill but NC Asheville has excellent courses on NAs and one of the areas that is covered is the niizh manidoo in the indigenous culture.
I'm always careful with my "gender thing".