- Higher education’s role in workforce developmentBy Dennis Kekas Associate Vice Chancellor, Partnerships and Economic Development NC State University As commencement celebrations approach, I’m reminded of my first job out of college. I was just starting out as a ...Read more
- ECU: More dentists for rural NCGREENVILLE – East Carolina University’s School of Dental Medicine is hailed as a national model for supplying much-needed dentists to rural communities, Chancellor Cecil Staton says. Open only since 2011,1 the dental ...Read more
- Farm Boy’s Journey: “I am the result of education”PEMBROKE – “I am the result of education,” UNC Pembroke Chancellor Robin Gary Cummings says in the accompanying video. “And that’s why I’m so committed to the power and the potential ...Read more
- 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