- “One of the most visionary and effective community-college leaders in the country.”BOONE – With word that NC Community College System President Scott Ralls will leave his post next fall to head a 75,000-student college in Virginia, the system’s former president says ...Read more
- Service to the State: University engagement, by the numbersIn the past year, North Carolina’s public colleges and universities interacted with more than 6 million North Carolinians, reaching far beyond the 220,000 students enrolled in full-time studies. That’s because ...Read more
- What’s in it for me?As tuition continues to rise at our state’s public colleges and universities, questions persist about whether college is worth it. But a recent study answers those questions with an emphatic and ...Read more
- N&O: Higher Education Works seeks to preserve NC’s brandBy Rob Christensen, The News & Observer Paul Fulton of Winston-Salem is a throwback to the era when most of North Carolina’s captains of industry were home grown and deeply involved in ...Read more
- Campus Climate Change at UNCBy James Moeser, Chancellor Emeritus, UNC Chapel Hill I came to North Carolina in 2000 to be the ninth chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Unlike most of ...Read more
- NC A&T attacks serious health threat with allergen-reduced peanutGREENSBORO – With 2.8 million Americans – many of them children – affected by peanut allergies, researchers at N.C. A&T State University have attacked a serious health threat and moved ...Read more
- Rapid design, rapid growthCULLOWHEE – When the product designers at the Snap-on plant in Murphy, NC, need a full-size prototype of a new power tool, they don’t have to venture far. The students ...Read more
- Carol Folt: The Envy of AmericaIn an interview with the Higher Education Works Foundation, Chancellor Carol Folt says that what sets UNC-Chapel Hill apart is its ability to keep its doors open to all qualified ...Read more
- REVIEW: The End of College actually calls for more collegeThe End of College: Creating the Future of Learning and the University of Everywhere. By Kevin Carey. Riverhead Books, 2015. By Eric Johnson Given the ominous title, Kevin Carey’s look into the ...Read more
- What’s the vision?By Paul Fulton Higher Education Works Two years ago, the board that oversees our state’s public universities adopted a plan with an ambitious goal: To raise the percentage of North Carolinians with ...Read more