- WOODSON: “We were entrusted … to build an economic community.”RALEIGH – The death this month of former NC State Chancellor Bruce Poulton prompted recollections of Poulton’s role fashioning Centennial Campus, which today is home not just to students and ...Read more
- ECU researchers track NC sharksBy Eric Johnson Courtesy UNC@Work The news this summer of several shark attacks on the North Carolina coast came as a surprise to many marine scientists. Severe shark attacks are extraordinarily rare; ...Read more
- House plan the best higher ed budget in yearsAs the state House and Senate try to reconcile their respective budget plans, one thing is clear: The plan adopted by the House is the best budget for higher education ...Read more
- NC Senate budget less friendly to UniversitiesRALEIGH (Jun. 18, 2015) – The $21.5 billion state budget approved this week by the NC Senate would provide for additional students and address long-postponed maintenance of University buildings. But ...Read more
- VIDEO: Chancellor Randy Woodson on the demand for NC State engineersA state with 10 million people that now ranks 9th-largest in the country has a growing demand for engineers, NC State University Chancellor Randy Woodson says in the accompanying video. As ...Read more
- VIDEO: Chancellor Randy Woodson on NC State’s economic impactEngineers. Computer scientists. High-tech agriculture. Energy. Because it is an “applied” university, NC State helps fuel today’s North Carolina economy, Chancellor Randy Woodson says in the accompanying video. “Our students get ...Read more
- Top-Notch Public Universities Need Business SupportBy James Leutze Given the state’s phenomenal growth over the last few generations, it isn’t surprising that more than half of North Carolinians today have no memory of what the University ...Read more
- Student Debt: “This huge albatross around their neck.”North Carolina has long prided itself on keeping tuition and student debt low at our state universities — in fact, the state constitution requires the legislature to keep tuition as ...Read more
- “Education IS Economic Development”At a forum co-sponsored by Higher Education Works and the Harvard Club of the Research Triangle, NC Community College System President Scott Ralls describes the historic connection between education and ...Read more
- House Budget a Breath of Fresh AirRALEIGH (May 22, 2015) – A University budget that grows by $139 million, or 5.3%, as the overall budget grows by 6.3% is a welcome change in the spending plan ...Read more