CHARLOTTE – We hear a lot about the skills gap – people without jobs and jobs without people. But in the accompanying video, Jennifer Haygood, Acting President of the NC Community ...

DOBSON – The welding shop at Surry Community College is a study in supply and demand – and the upshot is high wages for welders the college trains. Five-and-a-half years ago, ...

CHARLOTTE – The pay isn’t much.  The working conditions can be rough.  Yet some feel driven to teach. “Teaching is one of the most important professions right now,” Dean Ellen McIntyre ...

DOBSON – Many of us don’t realize how many ways community colleges touch our lives. “We truly reflect the citizenship of our region,” President David Shockley of Surry Community College says ...

DOBSON – Grow grapes from tobacco soil?  They said it couldn’t be done. But construction and real-estate developers Charlie and Ed Shelton believed the red clay of the Yadkin Valley shares ...

DOBSON – Lory Puckett knows that if she could do it, so can others. Puckett, a nursing instructor at Surry Community College, is very literally a master of her craft.  She ...

CHARLOTTE – In August, UNC Charlotte launched the first of its kind in the nation – a high school and early college for 9th graders who want to become teachers. As ...

CHARLOTTE – North Carolina is now the 9th largest state in America – yet it saw a 30% decline in enrollment in the state’s colleges of education from 2010-2015.1 “There’s a ...

CHARLOTTE – Most of us had a favorite teacher – one who made a difference in our lives. Dean Ellen McIntyre of the Cato College of Education at UNC Charlotte talks ...

By ROBERT INGRAM and ROGER PERRY DURHAM – As we embark on the recruitment of Amazon, it’s important to remember an important history lesson. There’s no question our local universities played a ...