- Video: Kristi Gaddis – Successes in Yadkin CountyKristin Gaddis, Executive Director, Student Support Services Yadkin County Schools shares Yadkin County, NC education successes.Read more
- Hans named NC Community College System PresidentRALEIGH (May 1, 2018) – The NC Board of Community Colleges named Peter Hans – once a member of the board himself, as well as a former chair of the ...Read more
- Video: Superintendent Mark Byrd – Challenges in Wilkes CountyMark Byrd, Superintendent, Wilkes County Schools, shares that the biggest challenge they face to getting more students to pursue higher education is that some parents don’t understand the value and ...Read more
- UNC Pembroke: An economic driver for Southeast NCPEMBROKE – What makes the University of North Carolina at Pembroke a great university? Chancellor Robin Gary Cummings points to both its past and its future. In the accompanying video, Cummings ...Read more
- UNC Pembroke and NC Promise: $500 a semester tuitionPEMBROKE – By reducing tuition to $500 a semester for in-state students at UNC Pembroke, Chancellor Robin Gary Cummings thinks state legislators are trying to abide by a promise in ...Read more
- ECU’s late-night professorGREENVILLE – One night last October, a group of students gathered in the library at East Carolina University to prepare for an accounting exam the next day – but they ...Read more
- ECU: Putting doctors into rural NCGREENVILLE – ECU Chancellor Cecil Staton is proud that ECU’s Brody School of Medicine puts more primary-care doctors into rural and underserved areas than any other medical school in the ...Read more
- ECU: ‘America’s next great national university’GREENVILLE – In part because of the region East Carolina University serves, Chancellor Cecil Staton makes a bold claim. “We have been bold at ECU to say that we are America’s ...Read more
- ECU: ‘No greater return on investment’GREENVILLE – East Carolina University Chancellor Cecil Staton isn’t shy about saying ECU serves rural and underserved parts of North Carolina. “I like to say, if North Carolina didn’t have ECU, ...Read more
- ‘We’ve got to find the resources’ for ECU financial aidGREENVILLE – Almost 11,000 of East Carolina University’s 29,000 students come from North Carolina’s poorest counties. “Obviously those students are going to come in the door with greater financial need,” ECU ...Read more