- NC State: A 40% increase in engineersRALEIGH (July 27, 2022) – The General Assembly responded to North Carolina’s need for engineers last year with “Engineering NC’s Future,” which provided $125 million for expansion of engineering programs ...Read more
- Can No. 1 in business be No. 1 in education?RALEIGH (July 21, 2022) – North Carolina won bragging rights last week when CNBC named it the No. 1 state in America for business. It’s an honor of which we ...Read more
- Keeping the best and brightest homeCHAPEL HILL (July 20, 2022) – An investment in some of North Carolina’s brightest high-school graduates – free tuition – is already paying off at UNC System schools. The NC School ...Read more
- Revolving-door leadershipRALEIGH (July 19, 2022) – Until the middle of the last decade, leaders of the UNC and NC Community College Systems generally stayed for five to seven years. But with the ...Read more
- Community Colleges: Vital work for North CaroliniansRALEIGH (July 13, 2022) – If you didn’t already, we hope our series on North Carolina’s community colleges helped you appreciate the many services these 58 colleges provide their communities ...Read more
- Teaching hard historyBy Eric Johnson CHAPEL HILL (July 13, 2022) – “Hard history is not hopeless history,” said Christie Norris, borrowing a quote from historian Hasan Kwame Jeffries as she spoke to a ...Read more
- A pay cutRALEIGH (July 6, 2022) – With the 2022-23 budget they unveiled and adopted last week, state legislators simply aren’t taking care of their people – our people. The state has a ...Read more
- UNC across the streetRALEIGH (July 6, 2022) – Now we know where state legislators want to put the UNC System, NC Community College System, Department of Public Instruction and Department of Commerce. Across the ...Read more
- Frank Daniels Jr.RALEIGH (July 6, 2022) – Blunt. Gruff. Contrarian. The remembrances of the aptly named Frank Daniels Jr. after he died at age 90 last week all noted his forthright opinions. In ...Read more
- Sartarelli: ‘A better university’ at UNCWWILMINGTON (July 1, 2022) – UNC Wilmington’s outgoing Chancellor, Jose “Zito” Sartarelli, recalls that when he arrived seven years ago, he wanted UNCW to be recognized for excellence, as a ...Read more