Legislature-mandated environmental policy center ruffles feathers at UNC

Inside Higher Ed: A new environmental public policy laboratory being set up at the behest of state lawmakers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is drawing protests from some faculty members worried about academic freedom and institutional autonomy.

Campus administrators say the laboratory, called the North Carolina Policy Collaboratory, can help address complex environmental questions cutting across science and public policy. And some faculty members are cautiously optimistic that it could fill a research void.

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