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<p>You’re obviously not a science major…</p>
<p>Just something to keep in mind, keepittoyourself, is that evaluations are actually controlled for expected grade. People making worse grades tend to evaluate their professors more negatively and that is statistically taken into account … so if you ever have a legitimately awful professor and you’re making a bad grade be sure to say you’re making an A. I’m not disagreeing with what you’re saying, just pointing something out.</p>
<p>^ Cloying that’s good advice, but unfortunately I think the comments (which are not weighted) carry more oomph than the numerical responses.</p>
<p>More realistically and less realistically…</p>
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<li><p>I’d make the Davis library less horrible (better lighting and air conditioning), and possibly 24 hours. More like the UL or the Wilson library.</p></li>
<li><p>I’d get rid of shared dorm rooms.</p></li>
<li><p>I’d have a few more designated smoking areas.</p></li>
<li><p>I’d make it more possible to fail out of UNC. </p></li>
<li><p>I’d institute a required curriculum of core classes, instead of the very vague and gameable requirements we have now.</p></li>
<li><p>I’d make a full year of study abroad (at no extra expense) a graduation requirement, where students have to directly enroll in a foreign university and follow the same requirements as home students, not just some lame ‘tailored’ programme/vacation. (Have to make some exceptions here for family commitments, etc.)</p></li>
<li><p>I’d have much better dining options on campus. How about somewhere where you could get a nice healthy and varied ‘homestyle’ meal for under $5? I’m tired of overpriced grease.</p></li>
<li><p>I’d change the Morehead scheme so that it brought people from a much wider range of countries. I’d also change the nomination system to attract a wider range of people from foreign countries.</p></li>
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<p>great suggestions keepittoyourself.</p>
<p>To add a bump to the thread, I would like to suggest the addition of an engineering school, which would do a number of things:</p>
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<li>Balance out the female/male ratio disparity </li>
<li>Increase the overall earning potential of UNC’s alumni base (i.e. donors)</li>
<li>Give UNC a fighting chance to compete with its ACADEMIC peers when recruiting students. I emphasize academic because as great as NC State is, it is not an academic peer (at least, according to UNC’s standards [The</a> Daily Tar Heel :: UNC searches for peer institutions](<a href=“http://www.dailytarheel.com/index.php/article/2010/03/unc_searches_for_peer_institutions]The”>http://www.dailytarheel.com/index.php/article/2010/03/unc_searches_for_peer_institutions)). If a student is good enough to get into UNC to study engineering, he or she will go to Michigan or Berkley, etc. Not NC State.</li>
<li>Make the school more globally relevant and attract more international talent.</li>
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<p>This is one suggestion that is not under the control of UNC.</p>
<p>The Morehead is wholly independent of UNC and sets its own guidelines, policies and procedures. In recent years it has expanded its reach to other countries; as recently as 2006 it only included the UK and Canada. The infusion of funding from the Cain family has allowed the program to grow in number of participants as well as size and scope of the award. As it now stands it is the most far reaching and all encompassing scholarship of its kind at any school and they are constantly looking for ways to improve the program.</p>
<p>^ No, maybe it’s not under the control of UNC, but it’s still something about UNC I’d change.</p>
<p>I’d change the selection procedure within the countries, too. As it stands, only a few (high) schools have heard of UNC Chapel Hill, and so they are the ones likely to have students apply. The whole ‘nominating school’ or whatever business really exacerbates this – basically the only way to be a Morehead from the UK is to have gone to one of a couple of private schools that happen to know about it, as far as I understand. This tends to mean that they come from an incredibly narrow social slice of the UK.</p>
<p>Imagine if there was a scholarship to Leeds university that was in practice only open to Americans from schools like New England prep schools.</p>
<p>(Of course, an applicant from any high school might get plucked from the pile. But to be in that position, they’d have to have applied for UNC, which means they’d have to be very rich, to expect to be able to pay the tuition.)</p>
<p>Since it’s so difficult to find funding for international students, I do agree that merit scholarships should aggressively recruit internationally.</p>
<p>For what it’s worth, though, 10 of this year’s 64 incoming Morehead-Cain scholars are international, and 8 of the 31 incoming Robertson scholars are international. </p>
<p>Between the two programs, 18 of the 95 are international – or nearly 20%. I think that’s a pretty solid number, although I see what you are saying about diversity of countries, since most of the international Moreheads are from the UK or Canada and most of the international Robertsons are from Australia or New Zealand (this year’s Morehead class also included people from Uganda and Turkey, and this year’s Robertson class included people from Sweden and South Africa).</p>
<p>^ And do you happen to know if any of the UK Moreheads didn’t go to private (fee-paying) schools, or perhaps some very elite state (free) schools?</p>