- The UNC System’s challenges and opportunitiesCHAPEL HILL – Randy Ramsey doesn’t shy away from discussing the challenges facing the University of North Carolina System. “There are a lot of challenges facing the System,” the Chair of ...Read more
- Ramsey: Calm and directCHAPEL HILL – Randy Ramsey openly acknowledges there’s been strife on the UNC Board of Governors. But the Chair of the 24-person board says every member wants what’s best for the ...Read more
- Ramsey: Most important decision of the decadeUNC System InterimPresident Bill Roper CHAPEL HILL – The search for a new UNC System president has been delayed by the coronavirus pandemic, officials said last week. But a practiced ...Read more
- Colleges to help communities ‘grow their own’ teachersRALEIGH – It had nothing to do with the coronavirus, but the State Board of Community Colleges took an important step last week to expand North Carolina’s pipeline of future ...Read more
- Pandemic Pedagogy!GREENSBORO – When it became clear in early March that the UNC System and colleges across the country would shift classes online in response to the coronavirus, Roy Schwartzman knew ...Read more
- Tech firm booms amid pandemic thanks to NC higher edRALEIGH – At the very time thousands of businesses have ordered layoffs in response to the coronavirus pandemic, the leaders of Bandwidth Inc. on NC State University’s Centennial Campus did ...Read more
- Adviser Spotlight: Tezeta TamratTezeta Tamrat is a second-year adviser serving with the Davidson College Advising Corps at Mallard Creek High School in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. By Tezeta TamratCollege Advising Corps “Congratulations, Tezeta, you’ve been selected to ...Read more
- Community colleges live up to their nameThousands upon thousands of gloves, masks and face shields from nursing, respiratory therapy and even cosmetology programs. Disaster loan applications. WiFi hot spots in parking lots. Tablets and laptops for students who ...Read more
- WiFi: Part of our name is ‘Community’SHELBY – The shift to online classes has revealed anew North Carolina’s digital divide.1 So, because North Carolina community colleges also tend to have plenty of parking lots that can accommodate ...Read more
- 50,000 classes onlineCHAPEL HILL – ‘Disruptive’ can be a loaded term. But if anything’s been disruptive to higher education – in North Carolina and around the world – it’s the coronavirus. Jim Ptaszynski, ...Read more