RALEIGH – North Carolina’s public universities are obliged to cut $62.8 million this year.  That’s what lawmakers required in the state budget signed into law this month.1 It’s not a devastating ...

CULLOWHEE – For Dr. Carmen Huffman, the chemistry lab never stands still. “Each student has unique strengths and weaknesses, and I love working with them on their own personal journeys of ...

RICHMOND – Higher education lost a great friend July 11 with the death of William Johnston “Billy” Armfield IV, after a brief illness. Armfield, 81, was a 1956 graduate of the ...

WINSTON-SALEM – When state legislators proposed this summer to offer tuition of $500 a semester at five state universities, they said they targeted schools with falling enrollment, suggesting those schools ...

BOONE – Appalachian State University will welcome six students this fall as the third class to receive the Wilson Scholarship, the university’s most prestigious merit scholarship. The scholarships were established in ...

DURHAM – Dr. Peggy Whiting calls teaching “one of the most honorable and humbling professions.”1 Which makes it especially fitting that she was honored and humbled this year to receive the ...

RALEIGH – With the 2016 session of the General Assembly now over, it’s clear legislators largely took a pass on urgent issues facing higher education in North Carolina:  Fixing HB2 ...

FAYETTEVILLE – Heather Griffiths almost missed out on becoming a professor. “I worked two or three jobs at a time to pay for college,” she recalled in an interview this year. ...

RALEIGH (June 29, 2016) – The $22.3 billion budget for 2016-17 that state legislators are moving to approve this week offers stable funding for state universities and community colleges, but ...

CHAPEL HILL – Few classes in undergraduate life are as dreaded as organic chemistry.   It is the gatekeeper class, the prerequisite that guards pre-med majors, pharmacy programs, and a ...