Our Perspective

Thank you to everyone who submitted a response over the past month to our survey of Coalition reader interests. It’s clear Coalition members are interested in many topics, so we will continue providing news and commentary on a variety of issues facing Carolina. …

Everything is political these days. From religion to sports to entertainment – political commentary is inescapable. Of course, a college campus is no exception. And as a venue for open dialogue and free thought, it shouldn’t be. Perhaps politics on UNC’s campus comes …

Thank you again for the generous contributions you made to the Coalition for Carolina over the past couple weeks. We greatly appreciate your support. (As always, tax-deductible contributions can be made here!) As we enter a new academic year in the coming weeks, …

Thank you to each and every one of you who contributed to the Coalition for Carolina in response to last week’s newsletter. If you haven’t had a chance to make a contribution yet and would like to support the Coalition for Carolina with …

We’re pausing our regularly scheduled programming to ask for your support. If that’s all the convincing you need, you can make a tax-deductible contribution here. For those of you who reasonably ask why you should give, here’s our pitch. Things are tough right …

We hope you had a great Fourth of July. Summer can be a time to move at a slower pace, but the action hasn’t stopped for Carolina and the world of higher ed. Here are a few updates that we thought you might …

Happy Fourth of July from the Coalition for Carolina. As the United States celebrates 250 years of independence, we want to recognize the revolutionary idea that was the nation’s first public university – the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The vision …

This seems to be the summer of sports. The FIFA World Cup is underway across North America. Legendary tennis player Serena Williams is taking a break from retirement to compete at Wimbledon next week. The New York Knicks accomplished comeback after comeback to …

We recently launched a series highlighting how civil discourse and leadership are already being promoted on UNC’s campus outside of the embattled School of Civic Life and Leadership’s (SCiLL) curriculum. Carolina Law Magazine’s Spring 2026 edition covered a discussion between two respected legal …

We’ve spent many newsletters detailing the never-ending news cycle surrounding UNC’s School of Civic Life and Leadership (SCiLL). While we have misgivings about how the school was created, how it’s managed and how it fails to live up to its stated mission of …